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This is the final poem.

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It's also a
contrapuntal, so it's

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read three different
ways it's short.

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Thank you for being
with me in this space.

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"Contrapuntal, the myth
they made to survive."

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I'll read the left column first.

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"She never cries until
she is in the car.

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She made that rule on day one.

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He could believe in
a myth if he wanted.

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She would be his myth if
it helped him keep living."

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"She never cries
until she is home,

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or in the steam of the shower,
or until she's in the car,

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until she can be made wholly
alone with no one watching.

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She made that rule
trying to save herself

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from the agony of tenderness.

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On day one she held it in
until she choked and threw up.

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If he could believe she was
OK, was willing, was waiting,

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she could live in a
myth if he wanted.

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Inside a myth where there
were two gods equally insane.

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She would be his equal, willing
to turn stone, turn tree bark,

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turn from real to
myth if it helped

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something impossible to
keep her untouchable.

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And she could help
him keep living,

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create any world she
wanted as long as it

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ended with set free."

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And the last part of the
poem, the last column.

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"Until she is home, or in
the steam of the shower,

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or until she can be wholly
alone with no one watching,

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trying to save herself from
the agony of tenderness.

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She held it in until
she choked and threw up.

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If she was OK, was
willing, was waiting,

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she could live inside
a myth where they

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were two gods equally insane.

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Equal, willing to turn
stone, turn tree bark,

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turn from real to something
impossible to keep

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her untouchable.

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And she could create any
world she wanted as long

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as it ended with set free."

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Thank you.

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