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A Pair of Scissors.(Poem)

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| May 01, 2002 | Smith, Vivian | COPYRIGHT 2002 Quadrant Magazine Company, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

 
A PAIR OF SCISSORS 
 
   I bought these scissors forty years ago, 
   a student tourist on a trip to Spain; 
   they cost about five shillings, not more, 
   "Toledo steel, the best blades of their kind"; 
   they've kept their point, their incised arabesque. 
 
   They've clipped back forty years of finger nails, 
   dead skin and bits of nostril hair. 
   Good for cutting paper, binding books, 
   for snipping flowers, mending, small repairs. 
 
   Once they helped me fix a broken ...

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