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So talk amongst yourselves.

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That's what I used to
say when I was teaching,

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and I couldn't find my place.

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I'd always say, talk
amongst yourselves.

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Anyway.

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I won't say at this time.

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Flight.

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A man reaches under a car and
removes a bird, a broken wing.

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I hadn't seen the bird.

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I'd been looking
up at other birds

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cutting like razors across my
line of vision, which reminds

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me of Un Chien Andalou
where a man slits

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a woman's eyeball and the
vitreous humor spills out.

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It would be, I was
thinking, metaphorically,

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like perception spilling out.

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The bird agitates in the man's
cupped hand, then settles down.

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Certain birds, the
black bird, for one,

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make nest shaped like cups.

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So the man's hand is a nest.

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All the while,
the man is talking

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what we will eat for breakfast.

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How good the son
feels, as if there

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were no bird trembling there, as
if he'd never reached with one

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unbroken sweep under
the car to rescue it.

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I should have been looking down.

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There reside blue and orange
Faro cigarette packages, bottle

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caps with stars, tiny
discarded plastic toys

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to slip into a
pocket avec stones.

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The bird-- yellow beak,
long tail feathers--

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once or twice opens its mouth
as if to join the conversation.

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Then thinks better of it.

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