Golden dunes, their slopes steep
      and hot and bare and sandy.
 From despair they make me weep
      groping for a hold firm and handy.
 One step forward, then stop!
      and feel the slow slide back.
 How many steps to reach the top
      or to roll down, a useless wreck?!
  
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Stan Sýkora, Arese, July 1995
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