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    All I Have Is a Poem: Poems and Skits
    All I Have Is a Poem: Poems and Skits
    All I Have Is a Poem: Poems and Skits
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    All I Have Is a Poem: Poems and Skits

    By Barbara Diamond

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    All I Have Is A Poem is partly ironic and partly based on Ms. Diamonds disappointment with the current mental health system.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherXlibris US
    Release dateJun 29, 2013
    ISBN9781483660653
    All I Have Is a Poem: Poems and Skits
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    Barbara Diamond

    Barbara Diamond graduated from Smith College in 1964 and holds Masters’ degrees from New York University and Columbia University. After doing financial work, she taught piano for twenty years and currently writes poetry and plays the piano. Previous books have included Songs, 1993 and Antique End Tables (2011) which received favorable reviews. She has read at Barnes & Noble, The Harvard College Club of New York and the West 74th Street Home.

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      All I Have Is a Poem - Barbara Diamond

      Copyright © 2013 by Barbara Diamond.

      Also by Barbara Diamond

      Songs

      Antique End Tables

      All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

      Rev. date: 06/25/2013

      To order additional copies of this book, contact:

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      Contents

      All My Summers

      They Destroyed

      Into The Mulch

      A Carafe of Wine

      Begonia

      The Wasp of Insanity

      A Life For a Dollar

      The Beach

      Into the Village

      Bed Of Rock

      Halloween

      Six O’clock

      The Slate

      Why

      What Is Pure

      You

      A Rich Mosaic

      Salty Tears

      All I Have Is a Poem

      Between the Cracks

      In the Hospital

      One Summer Night

      Fantasy

      In the Asylum

      The Little Sprout

      Should I Care

      To Listen

      It Happens All The Time

      Requited Love

      My Sweetie

      A Compacter

      This Hotel

      Doggerel For the Doctor

      The Social Worker

      What Was Their Reason

      A Calendar

      When Young

      Thank You Doctor

      The Night

      Observation

      Dedicated to my brother, Robert Diamond, without whom this book would not have been possible.

      Grateful acknowledgment to my brother, Robert Diamond, and to my Publisher, Xlibris.

      All My Summers

      When looking at the sea

      That ripples to the shore,

      And begs to last forever,

      When it shines or pours

      When ice freezes over

      The silent sound of

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