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George has a dream that George builds a new house
cuz George is a carpenter and that is what he does.
And just when George finished his house
a late Spring snow comes and covers it up
and covers up George too because he lets it,
cuz George is a snowman from the Great White
Canadian North and he likes it
the way the cold flies in and alters the mood of
his mind, like a friend who has traveled the length
of a continent to join him.
A Spring snow can do that, they say it is God's way.
And then George simply forgets where he has built his
house.
George has lost his house somewhere in America.
And time goes by as it must do
and cuz George is a man with natural man tendencies
he makes his home with his
American wife and kids
and American dog and cat until one day
George is driving down an unfamiliar road on a sunny
Summer day and George finds the house that he had
built and lost so many years before.
So George stops and runs through his yard
and vaults his steps and opens his door
and finds a strange man living in his house.
And George says to him this is my house
but the man looks at George and replies get out.
So George says give me what is mine
and the man says go to hell.
And then George sees the man's wife and kids
through the back window in the back yard
and he recognizes their faces as the faces of
his own wife and kids.
And George sees his own foreign face in the window
and feels ambushed.
So George goes outside and sits down on the curb
and looks up into the sky
and with no one to listen to,
hears as he must, the wind warming his ears.
And he wakes up,
and rolls over and looks at his wife's face
and gets up and looks at his children's faces
and he goes outside and stands in his yard
and looks at his house looking back at him
under the murky soup of black sky that looks
lost upon everything
and George wonders
if it will snow tomorrow.
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