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"I love you into Pluto.

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I've been waiting all
day for this moment,

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to be alone with you.

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Alone, meaning reflection,
as you stop to look.

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My pulse unblemished
by looking, the bones

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of this arc of
understanding, when

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I stop to look at you in a way
to make breathing possible.

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You are my breath.

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And when you walk, you
meaning and understanding

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that the body is
of your making, I

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see with other
senses uncompromised

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by physical limitations--

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a pause of physical
nature of friends,

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a pause of the cycling of
the mind and below the mind.

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As we descend, I see a
figure stream into the room.

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Intentionality to
walk into a dark room

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with only the lightness of your
body, which you could not see

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but which everyone
else could see.

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Dark pitch and snow
falling thick and fast

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could not bear into
the face of, not able

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to contain such a gaze.

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Come back to me ostensibly
as returned liquid light.

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I want the letter
to be more flowery,

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he said, the love
letter to yourself.

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In a dark room,
you mentioned you,

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under slayer of dark,
remnants of dark,

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of the letters and numbers
printed on bombs dropping

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on Iraq at this moment.

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The newspapers, which I
stroll past in my stroller,

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strolled boys, oblivious
to the children,

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faces buried in rubble.

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Would I shield them?

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Gladly.

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Inside, the mother
father garden.

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When I walk past
those images, frayed

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by the visual recognition
of destruction-- gladly.

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I've been waiting
to turn to you,

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meaning to look at
the images gladly.

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Last, unblemished by looking
directly at you as I am of you.

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Of the rubble in the
photograph of the child lost

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in contentment, I
hold, locked eyes

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with the image of destitution.

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I am of you, and I choose you,
the child buried in rubble.

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I choose to walk into the dark
room with luminosity, a parent,

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where we may walk together.

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You, phosphorescent, along
the edges of your sky.

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Chest expands along the edges
of my small understanding.

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Grand apprehension,
apprehend apprenticeship,

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pretend ship aboard
not vessel but voyage,

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preternatural of
nerves and muscles,

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clavicle turn of needing
one's hands for small tasks.

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An intimate animal,
elusive, wholly

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imaginary to
accompany us through

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this dwindling corridor.

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I love you into Pluto,
beyond the spot.

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Sit on my lap and eat a
sandwich, drinking sideways

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from the corner of your mouth,
having a cup of juice with you.

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Or you are luminous, and I
am sleeping as you arrive,

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tiredly pulling over
the bed to your side,

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beckoning bodily beyond Pluto.

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I love you into the Milky Way.

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This could be a
children's book, he

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said, which begins, I
love you into the clouds,

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then the moon, then
the other planets,

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and onwards,
outwards, to infinity.

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Just always to be with you,
even on the potty, mommy.

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From where did it come,
this luminous body?

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Jakey, lay down,
it's sleepy time.

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How is it that meditation
changes reality so that

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returning to a
task, to a thought,

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you touch everything
differently?

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We were made of trees,
and we shook madly.

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The neighbor moves out
of the neighborhood.

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I have a history of
inexplicable love for you.

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How to entertain the illogical?

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Is it logical to look at a
forest and see a parking lot?

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Is it logical in the
midst of hurried tasks

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to stop, to sit, to pray, to
offer help, to light candles?

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An act is merely an
act if only acted.

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I have a history of
love for you that

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is not my history exclusively.

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You are loved beyond
anything known.

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There is no you in the
sentence that approaches aptly.

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There is only the sentence where
it attempts to carry thought,

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missing along the way at
every catch of breath.

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But the you in the sentence
is the multi-present you,

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the you drinking or
sitting, the you sleeping,

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the you in the newspapers,
the you idiotic,

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yelling, the you
stomping away, the you

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lifting boxes in the garage,
searching for something

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at my request, the
you planting seeds,

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scrubbing floors, the you
distant, invisible, ever

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present, the you ringing
the telephone far too often,

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the you crying,
walking into walls,

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the you irritated at
that time of night,

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the you searching
for remedies, the you

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allergic to wheat and
the you allergic to cats

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and the you preferring an aisle
seat, the you not helping,

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but running, the you leaving
drawers open and dishes dirty,

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the you walking across
the kitchen counter,

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the you missing or deliberately
absent, the you of no image,

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the you of divine image,
the you you disagree with,

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the you in any one continuous
sentence, the you in debt,

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the you in versed,
reading something trivial,

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repeating untrue words, the
you listening, the you into all

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of the planets.

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We are animals, standing very
still until someone presses

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our buttons.

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Then we walk or run.

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Then we are still again.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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