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This poem was written
after the assassination

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of Robert Kennedy, which I
had watched on television.

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And it keeps talking about it,
it, it all the way through.

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One of my best
friends and readers

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thought the poem was
about something else.

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So I had forgotten to
put the title on it.

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So that I now put the title and
the day and everything else.

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I want to make everything
clear as possible.

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And I want to say, the it
means, something like blood.

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Or death, or violence.

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And it-- well, "The
Assassination."

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It begins again,
the nocturnal pulse.

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It courses through the
cables laid for it.

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It mounts to the chandeliers
and beats there, hotly.

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We are too close.

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Too late we would move back.

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We are involved with the surge.

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Now, it bursts.

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Now, it has been announced.

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Now, it is being soaked
up by newspapers.

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Now, it is running
through the streets.

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The crowd has it.

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The woman selling carnations
and the man in the straw hat

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stand with it in their shoes.

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Here is the red marquee
it's sheltered under.

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Here is the ballroom.

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Here the sadly various orchestra
led by a single gesture.

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My arms open.

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It, enters.

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Look, we are dancing.

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