Just Out of Reach

Five years next November.

Can't repeat
the past?
Why of course you can!
I'm going to fix everything
just the way it was before.

He looked around wildly,
as if the past were lurking
in the shadow,
just out of reach of his hand.

Oh, you want too much!
I can't help what's
past.

She vanished into her rich house,
into her rich, full life,
leavving Gatby--
nothing
just out of reach of his hand.



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