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I watched it as it grew from
Just a single column in the
Arts and Entertainment section
Of the local Sunday news.
I thought it at first to be an oddity
To place the Personals
In such a section, so obscure,
So hidden from the public view.
But week to week it became clear
The lonely souls were reading
As column grew to pages
'Til it quite obscured the Arts,
And it finally occurred to me
And filled me with delusion
To think there are so many
Restless, searching, lonely hearts.

All those people reaching out,
Longing for affection.
No time left for subtlety;
"In search of" ... direction.

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