THE TWO FRIENDS - Norman MacCaig Poems

 
 

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THE TWO FRIENDS
The last word this one spoke
was my name. The last word
that one spoke
was my name.

My two friends
had never met. But when they said
that last word
they spoke to each other.

I am proud to have given them a language
of one word. A narrow space
in which, without knowing it,
they met each other at last.

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