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About the same year
as this last poem.

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Strange now to think of you
gone without corsets and I--

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while I walk on a sunny
pavement of Greenwich Village,

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downtown Manhattan,
clear winter noon.

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And I've been up
all night talking,

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talking, reading the
Kaddish aloud, listening

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to Ray Charles, blues shout
blind on the phonograph,

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the rhythm, the
rhythm, and your memory

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in my head three years after.

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And read out of Adonais' last
triumphant stanzas aloud.

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Wept, realizing how
we suffer, and how

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death is that remedy
all singers dream of.

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Sing, remember, prophesy
as in the Hebrew Anthem

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or the Buddhist Book of
Answers and my own imagination

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of a withered leaf at dawn.

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Dreaming back through
life, your time and mine

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accelerating toward apocalypse.

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The final moment, the
flower burning in the day,

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and what comes after
looking back on the mind

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itself that saw an
American city, a flash away

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and the great dream
of me or China--

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No, I don't want to
read this either.

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I don't-- There is a portion
I'd like to read though.

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The portion in the center,
I'm interested in, so--

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