Fri 02/24/2006 16:11 - Our Interactive Narrative group, Edel & Vanessa parsing William Carlos Williams' "The Act".

The Act

There were the roses, in the rain.
Don't cut them, I pleaded.
They won't last, she said.
But they're so beautiful
where they are.
Agh, we were all beautiful once, she said,
and cut them and gave them to me
in my hand.