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I love termites.

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I think they're totally cool.

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I know we have to get rid
of them, which is sad.

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My dad's church, St
Michael's, I know they're

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getting rid of the termites.

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But I do think that there's
something magical and beautiful

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about those little arms.

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And they're just like
poets, living underground,

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doing really good work by
transforming in their bodies.

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So anyway, I do love termites
even though I do spray them.

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So continuing in
the seasonal vein--

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so in California, and
I know in Tucson too,

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there are micro-seasons.

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There's not just two
seasons-- they say in Tucson,

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there are only two seasons.

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But there are many seasons.

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And so we have at least
30 seasons, micro-seasons,

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in California and the
Bay Area where I live.

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"Grammar of This Life at Noon."

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"The immortals
wait in the fields,

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and the newt under the laurel,
a dragon whose three heads

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argued with themselves.

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The push thistles,
Celastrina echo butterfly

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with automatic
semicolons on its wings,

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'twill hide under the Clorox
cloud, and that's that.

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Some punctuation is just
too sensitive to be outside.

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Stubby white teeth on that
baby vole, smile on its face,

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screep, like Gnostic Jesus,
it's comma, comma, comma, claws.

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Clause, verbless
mosquito egg daylight.

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Worker, dreamer, your soul
has slept with countesses

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so long his hands
still smell like money.

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He says to himself,
my Lord, the sun,

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has thrown his sexual
shadow upon me.

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Oops, where did it go?

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It's just fallen
behind something.

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What has?

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Whatever you lost."

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