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Mary's Mom

She’s doing it and that’s all that

matters.

It has to be a step in the right

direction.

I hope it will be the start of

something,

Take her outside the tight

little world

She’s built in the basement,

playing

Piano in the near dark, her music

spreading

Along the floorboards, like a

colony

Of musical mice who stop

scurrying

The minute anyone else

appears.