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OK.

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"Adamant."

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"Deer browse at sunrise
in an apple orchard

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while honey locust
leaves litter the walk.

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A neighbor hears gunshots
in the bosque and wonders

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who's firing at close range.

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I spot bear prints
near the Pojoaque River

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but see no sign of the
reported mountain lion.

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As chlorophyll
slips into the roots

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of a cottonwood and the
leaves burst into yellow gold,

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I wonder, where's
our mortal flare?

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You can travel to where the
Tigris and Euphrates flow

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together and admire the
inventions of people living

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on floating islands of reeds.

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You can travel along
an archipelago and hike

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among volcanic pools steaming
with water and sulfuric acid.

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But you can't change the
eventual, adamant body.

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Though death might not come like
a curare-dipped dart blown out

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of a tube or slam at you like
surf breaking over black lava

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rock, it will come--

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it will come--
and it unites us--

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brother, sister,
boxer, spinner--

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in this pact while you inscribe
a letter with trembling hand."

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