In a Crowded Room by Fran Long

Feb 22, 2024

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This piece was taken from the archives of the Mother Theresa Hackelmeier Library on Marian University's main campus. It was originally published in Volume 36 (no number) by the 1977-1978 Fioretti students. This particular picture was taken from the handwritten and handbound rough copy.

A L O N E

inacrowdedroom

room full of people, persons, objects, things

Everyone talking

Everyone talking at once

yet no one talking to me

Not a foreign language,

do they speak?

But it well might be

I am here

who

would

ever

know?

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