tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81336951852043406712024-02-18T18:13:17.488-08:00My Bell Jarfallen from the fig treeAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156717367536404365noreply@blogger.comBlogger2652125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133695185204340671.post-88680338676775332782018-09-10T11:03:00.003-07:002018-09-10T11:03:54.660-07:00I burn for my own lies.<div class="c-feature-hd" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; font-variant-ligatures: normal; margin: 0px 0px 4px; orphans: 2; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; widows: 2;">
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">for J. L. D.<br /><br />Why should we do this? What good is it to us? Above all, how can we do such a thing? How can it possibly be done?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My name is James A. Wright, and I was born</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Twenty-five miles from this infected grave,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In Martins Ferry, Ohio, where one slave</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To Hazel-Atlas Glass became my father.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He tried to teach me kindness. I return</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Only in memory now, aloof, unhurried,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To dead Ohio, where I might lie buried,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Had I not run away before my time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ohio caught George Doty. Clean as lime,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">His skull rots empty here. Dying’s the best</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Of all the arts men learn in a dead place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I walked here once. I made my loud display,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Leaning for language on a dead man’s voice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now sick of lies, I turn to face the past.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I add my easy grievance to the rest:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 2</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Doty, if I confess I do not love you,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Will you let me alone? I burn for my own lies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The nights electrocute my fugitive,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My mind. I run like the bewildered mad</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">At St. Clair Sanitarium, who lurk,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Arch and cunning, under the maple trees,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Pleased to be playing guilty after dark.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Staring to bed, they croon self-lullabies.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Doty, you make me sick. I am not dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I croon my tears at fifty cents per line.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 3</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Idiot, he demanded love from girls,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And murdered one. Also, he was a thief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">He left two women, and a ghost with child.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The hair, foul as a dog’s upon his head,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Made such revolting Ohio animals</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Fitter for vomit than a kind man’s grief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I waste no pity on the dead that stink,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And no love’s lost between me and the crying</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Drunks of Belaire, Ohio, where police</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Kick at their kidneys till they die of drink.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Christ may restore them whole, for all of me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Alive and dead, those giggling muckers who</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Saddled my nightmares thirty years ago</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Can do without my widely printed sighing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Over their pains with paid sincerity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I do not pity the dead, I pity the dying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 4</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I pity myself, because a man is dead.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">If Belmont County killed him, what of me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">His victims never loved him. Why should we?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And yet, nobody had to kill him either.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It does no good to woo the grass, to veil</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The quicklime hole of a man’s defeat and shame.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Nature-lovers are gone. To hell with them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I kick the clods away, and speak my name.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 5</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">This grave’s gash festers. Maybe it will heal,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">When all are caught with what they had to do</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In fear of love, when every man stands still</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">By the last sea,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And the princes of the sea come down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To lay away their robes, to judge the earth</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And its dead, and we dead stand undefended everywhere,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And my bodies—father and child and unskilled criminal—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Ridiculously kneel to bare my scars,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My sneaking crimes, to God’s unpitying stars.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 6</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Staring politely, they will not mark my face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">From any murderer’s, buried in this place.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Why should they? We are nothing but a man.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"> 7</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Doty, the rapist and the murderer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Sleeps in a ditch of fire, and cannot hear;</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And where, in earth or hell’s unholy peace,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Men’s suicides will stop, God knows, not I.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Angels and pebbles mock me under trees.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Earth is a door I cannot even face.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Order be damned, I do not want to die,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Even to keep Belaire, Ohio, safe.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">The hackles on my neck are fear, not grief.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(Open, dungeon! Open, roof of the ground!)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I hear the last sea in the Ohio grass,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Heaving a tide of gray disastrousness.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Wrinkles of winter ditch the rotted face</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Of Doty, killer, imbecile, and thief:</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Dirt of my flesh, defeated, underground.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><i>(For Annie)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">First, are you our sort of a person?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Do you wear</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A glass eye, false teeth or a crutch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A brace or a hook,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Rubber breasts or a rubber crotch,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Stitches to show something's missing? No, no? Then</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How can we give you a thing?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Stop crying.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Open your hand.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Empty? Empty. Here is a hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To fill it and willing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To bring teacups and roll away headaches</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And do whatever you tell it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Will you marry it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is guaranteed</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">To thumb shut your eyes at the end</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">And dissolve of sorrow.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">We make new stock from the salt.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I notice you are stark naked.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">How about this suit——</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Black and stiff, but not a bad fit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Will you marry it?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It is waterproof, shatterproof, proof</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Against fire and bombs through the roof.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Believe me, they'll bury you in it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Now your head, excuse me, is empty.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">I have the ticket for that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Come here, sweetie, out of the closet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Well, what do you think of <em style="border: 0px; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that</em>?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Naked as paper to start</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">But in twenty-five years she'll be silver,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">In fifty, gold.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">A living doll, everywhere you look.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It can sew, it can cook,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It can talk, talk, talk.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><br /></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">It works, there is nothing wrong with it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You have a hole, it's a poultice.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">You have an eye, it's an image.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">My boy, it's your last resort.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Will you marry it, marry it, marry it.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">-Sylvia Plath</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #181818;"><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">Life is tragic simply because the earth turns and the sun inexorably rises and sets, and one day, for each of us, the sun will go down for the last, last time. Perhaps the whole root of our trouble, the human trouble, is that we will sacrifice all the beauty of our lives, will imprison ourselves in totems, taboos, crosses, blood sacrifices, steeples, mosques, races, armies, flags, nations, in order to deny the fact of death, the only fact we have. It seems to me that one ought to rejoice in the fact of death--ought to decide, indeed, to earn one's death by confronting with passion the conundrum of life. One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.” </span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156717367536404365noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133695185204340671.post-12491152891861020832018-06-13T09:18:00.001-07:002018-06-13T09:18:15.891-07:00I laid bare my chest, said do your best<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I've been to hell and back so many times, I must admit it kind of bores me</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156717367536404365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133695185204340671.post-27308897622470506482018-06-13T09:16:00.000-07:002018-06-13T09:18:46.560-07:00Will wrench you by its ravings, discompose you<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">Boris Pasternak, best known for his penning of the epic Russian novel, "Doctor Zhivago", is also one of my favorite poets. He didn't write a lot (comparatively), but what he did write will dissolve you into one million particles of light.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left;">The shiv'ring piano, foaming at the mouth,<br />Will wrench you by its ravings, discompose you.<br />"My darling," you will murmur. "No!" I'll shout.<br />"To music?!" Yet can two be ever closer<br /><br />Than in the dusk, while tossing vibrant chords<br />Into the fireplace, like journals, tome by tome?<br />Oh, understanding wonderful, just nod,<br />And you will know I do not claim to own<br /><br />Your soul and body. You may go where'er<br />You want. To others. Wether has been written<br />Already. Death these days is in the air.<br />One opens up one's veins much like a window.</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"February. Get ink, shed tears.<br />Write of it, sob your heart out, sing,<br />While torrential slush that roars<br />Burns in the blackness of the spring.<br /><br />Go hire a buggy. For six grivnas,<br />Race through the noice of bells and wheels<br />To where the ink and all you grieving<br />Are muffled when the rainshower falls.<br /><br />To where, like pears burnt black as charcoal,<br />A myriad rooks, plucked from the trees,<br />Fall down into the puddles, hurl<br />Dry sadness deep into the eyes.<br /><br />Below, the wet black earth shows through,<br />With sudden cries the wind is pitted,<br />The more haphazard, the more true<br />The poetry that sobs its heart out. " </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #4c4c4c; line-height: 20.7969px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif;">"Poetry is a rich, full-bodied whistle,<br />cracked ice crunching in pails,<br />the night that numbs the leaf,<br />the duel of two nightingales,<br />the sweet pea that has run wild,<br />Creation's tears in shoulder blades."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;">(she opens the door)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">To stand and wait is a task far weightier than simply to wait. It is to permit the distractible body neither ease nor action, nor food nor drink nor any such reprieve; it is to pit the body in enmity against its own heaviness.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">To abide in readiness as in a winter orchard, the lacerated land bandaged in snow. To exist inert as if limbless, skin seamless as if reknit over what had been pruned away, knotted rootstock fit for no other service: no branch, no leaf, no fruit. To persist as a stripped stick persists in a white field, bark peeled back from one exposed split, uptilted as if eager for the grafted slip.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">To stand and wait for the one who reaps where he has not sown.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">Mercy sugars the starving soil with nitrogen, potassium, phosphate. Mercy captures rain in silver beads and stitches them through the threadbare weave of cloud. Mercy wields a scalpel cutting a cleft in the lopped-off stump, mercy forces home the rootless wand, mercy seals the join with tar and tape.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">To foster the raw scion as if it were a son, to siphon light down through its body as if it were your own.</span></div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156717367536404365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133695185204340671.post-35870448872622873422018-06-13T08:27:00.002-07:002018-06-13T09:41:19.745-07:00Blindness<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">The “wide” is always haunted by surprise. In a dark world, the “wide” is the sudden door that opens on unfurling blackness, the void pooling at the bottom of the unlit stairs. To be bounded is our usual condition; to be open is anomalous, even excessive.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">A wide-eyed girl is extreme in her unliddedness, her bare membranes flinching at any contact, vulnerable to motes, to smuts, to dryness. A wide-hipped girl extends the splayed arches of her body to bridge the generational divide. A wide-legged girl unseals a portal between persons; she is disturbing to the extent that she is open to all comers, a trapdoor that must be shut for safety’s sake. A wide-eyed girl is often thought desirable; a wide-hipped girl is often thought eligible; a wide-legged girl is often thought deplorable. A wide-legged girl is rarely wide-eyed, though she may have started out that way.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: xx-small;">We can understand why Milton, in the narrowing orbit of his blindness, would have considered wideness, unboundedness to be threatening. What’s less clear is why the wideness of the wide-legged girl is also considered threatening. Does the wideness of the wide-legged girl evoke a kind of blindness, a dark room where one might blunder into strangers, the way two men once met each other in me?</span></div>
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<span style="font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; text-indent: -1em;"><span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The nest was at rest for a time, not being</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">made. Before the eggs were laid, it softened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The robin sleeping. Inside the house,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the sound of laundry</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the dryer, the sound of a zipper</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">tumbling inside</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the apparatus, and shirts with buttons,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as well as napkins</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and a tablecloth printed with blueberries</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and stalks of lily of the valley, oval,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for the table with claw legs</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and extra leaves for guests.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">II.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In one account, the angels come, their hands</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">emerging from their wings like sentences</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">staying, as long as it takes,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">for the windows to go from indigo</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to black, as long</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as it takes for a breath to land in the base</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of the belly, in the cavity</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">wisdom tells us wisdom comes from</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">or first dwells in, before it navigates</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the narrows of the throat, becomes mantra,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">becomes guttural, becomes spit to aspirate</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the language the mouth makes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The native obligation of this account</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to its subject is care. The form</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of music the wind chime makes</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">registers the commitment</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of a furious system, filled with</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">conviction, to the continued</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">transformation of what</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">is. Do not ask what has been</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">lost. Ask what changed. An instrument</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of will, the guitar echoes this, a chord,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">more reminder than absolute, the hand</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">arouses but does not create the scale.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In this way what rests gets taken up.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">III.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In another, the mind makes a decision</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to end its disorder. The mind wants first</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to end the face. The subject</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">has had enough, one too many</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">figures walking through the orchard, the call</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and response of conversation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">become an imposition on some other world</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">unbroken by the idea of separate bodies,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">an idea one has never been convinced of,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and so now it is a relief to believe</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">what one has suspected, that separation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">a trick of perspective, though such a revelation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">does not undo the fatigue of existing</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">in the continuing illusions of others. And yet, the obligation</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to be kind, to show interest in strangers</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">when they visit with flowers, to family</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">whose hands are empty, and to doctors,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">not to mention the pain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">IV.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">In the last account, the explosions</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">are too small to be seen, and oxygen</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">takes both thirst and hunger away</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">as it ceases to find a home in the lungs,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and the patient, having ceased to feel, ceases</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">to breathe, as the heart shuts down</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">before the brain and shuts</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the dreaming down, the settling on a nest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">of images, not feeling any form of distress.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">The pathways to distress are blocked,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">but the senses doubled, the ears know</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the house more than they ever did,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">whose clothes occupy the dryer,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">which voice accompanies water.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">I know what she would say to you</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">if she could speak,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;"> if she could see</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">you just inside the window whose top right</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">pane frames what we call a family,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">finishes what she is thinking about,</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">barely but still hidden from sight.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">If you stopped to look at the nest</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">you would see a sleep so purposeful</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">the ladder of adoration would reverse</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "times" , "times new roman" , serif; font-size: small;">and you would stay on earth.</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04156717367536404365noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8133695185204340671.post-81212665398719540002014-01-12T06:16:00.001-08:002014-01-12T06:16:31.205-08:00Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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