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Summer 2003 

Expectations

It is said the stage only mirrors life.

Is that why we act hurt
when presented with our shortcomings?

If we are satisfied
to be just workers in the vineyard,

Then we should occasionally
expect sour grapes.

C. Eric Hellmann
Ohio
Reprinted from “Among the Reeds”
(Writers Club Press, 2001)