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The Visit
Your letter frantic:
Please consider coming to see me.
We'll get a rental car and have a really good visit.
I won't ask you to visit again.

I have called
the airlines
Please consider
It's been since 1985
and that's no good
and I'm very
old.

Take 70 West to 270 West
and 270 to 40 West
Take
Life is so
Short.
I'll give you directions
You can
Do
It.

I want
To see
You
It's so
Far
From San Jose
To Saint
Louis
That's no
Good

Rent
A Good
Visit
Come to see me
Your old Grandma
Please
Consider:
Asking you to visit
Again.
 
 
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