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I'm going read two more poems.

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This one is--

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I am thinking of
another title for it.

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It's now entitled "Return."

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The only other title
I've thought of

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is "A Child Gives
Birth to Parents."

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It simply is how I'm relating
to my parents at the moment.

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They are like poems lost
behind mirrors, curling yellow,

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their images fading.

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A dream waking brings no escape.

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I am the germ sperm
has grown into.

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I was not consulted on
the eve of my creation.

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They had plans of their own.

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I see their bone faces
at the end of the road,

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smiling encouragement
as the ground opens.

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We keep our distance in
a box with unused maps.

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Aliens in a lost land
pretending to laugh,

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who depend on wires
to convey impulses.

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I never return.

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Their voices squeezed
across country,

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reduced to wordless vibrations.

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Searching for their once child.

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Time to sleep.

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