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And lastly, let me read the
title poem from the book.

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Again, this is a surrealistic
poem that jumps around a bit,

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although the imagery
in it is not stark.

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It's not tremendously dramatic.

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It's a poem about,
I guess, in the end

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a poem about rejecting
fantasy in some way.

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Living one's life,
freeing oneself.

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It's called "Looking
for Jonathan."

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Before sunrise,
the sky whitened.

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I said to myself, "Whatever
troubles you, leave it."

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Then we're speeding into the
fields, corn, white houses,

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buses at daybreak--

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the same eyes we've
brought along before.

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But the yellow light
looked in at us--

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that discomfiture; give it here.

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Oh, I knew what had
been planned, but where?

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And in whose name?

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Nonfiction, happiest man ran
alongside, then right-angled,

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"See you," into the white woods.

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We followed, of course, on foot.

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There, various women--
some I knew or had known--

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were dancing,
filling a clearing.

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The pond-- we swam
in the old way,

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lit the green
leaves to grow warm.

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Our smoke rose into the sun.

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When I saw America, she
had danced all night.

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She was chalk white, leaning
on her husband's arm.

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I could see the sun.

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The orange hometown coming.

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I leaned honestly into
my own reflection.

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I had no more stories of God.