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Well, the rest of
the reading I want

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to devote to poems
most of which have not

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been published at
all and none of which

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have been published in a book.

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And I think I hope
I don't know what

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the theme of that collection
is, really it's not finished.

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But I know some of
the poems that we

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have to be pivotal poems
in it and most of the ones

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that I'll read will be that.

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I mean, giving
what I hope is due

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allowance to your
exhaustion and mine.

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The first of them is--

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they're at least as different
again from the poems

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of The Lice as The Lice
was from The Moving Target,

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and they differ quite
a lot among themselves.

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But the first of them
that I'm going to read

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is a poem I can't think
of anything particular

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to say about to make
it clearer, it's

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called "The Different Stars."

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It's a poem in the second
person as "Lemuel's Blessing"

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and some of those others were.

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I could never have come to the
present without you, remember

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that, from whatever
stage we may again

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watch it appear with its
lines clear pain having, gone

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from there.

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So that we may well wonder
looking back on us here

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what tormented us, what great
difficulty invisible in a time

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that by then looks simple
and is irrevocable,

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pain having come from there.

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My love, I tend to think of
division as the only evil

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when perhaps it
is merely my own.

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But unties one day the
veins, one the arteries.

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The prize is less as it
receives then as it loses.

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It breaks the compasses.

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Cannot be led or followed.

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Cannot choose what
to carry into grief.

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Even unbinds, will
unbind, unbinds

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our hands, pages
of the same story.

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What is it they say can
turn even this into wisdom?

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And what is wisdom
if it is not now

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in the loss that has
not left this place?

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Oh, if we knew what we
needed, if we even knew,

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the stars would look
to us to guide them

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