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And this book is filled
with different sequences,

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and one of them is called
"An Eye for the Distance,"

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and it is a sequence of,
I suppose you call them

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prose poems, which
is not something

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I think of myself as
writing, but I did.

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And this one from it
is called "Marbles."

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When I think of marbles I
always think of my father who,

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once in a while, carried
marbles in his pocket

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and he liked to pull
them out and say,

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I still got all my marbles.

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"Marbles have no edge.

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We should be kinder to
people who covet them.

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This in a dream, and I think
of Eli who gives dreams to Leo,

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dreams for a time
passed 5,000 years.

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When was that, and why?

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And I think of my
father, who did not

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like to speak of dreams,
they were less than real

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and to be discounted.

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He gave them to me, mine,
difficult and impossible

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not to undertake.

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Impossible no, no refusal.

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He, my father, sometimes carried
marbles in his jacket pocket.

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He had objective proof that
he still had all his marbles.

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All, in this context,
is problematic.

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What did he have,
in whose beginning?

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And I do not remember
if, 15 years ago, he

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died carrying them all.

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I once discounted his
humor, a simple forwardness

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to step simply forward, an act.

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Not holding a
stake in dreams, he

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could not help except in
dreams, words which have

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no edges, dreams of marbles.

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What have I been given?"

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