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Here's a poem written
this last year,

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after more or less recovering
from a siege of despair,

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despondency, and the like.

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It's called "Now I
See the Sun Again."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Now I see the sun
again, and can walk out

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from the shadow
of my wristwatch.

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The sky is still
there, as it always

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was, changing the
changeless, open to prayer

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and the rape of kites.

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The wax flowers
have all exploded.

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The conspirators who
fed my veins of tedium

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have been stood like
the Emperor Maximilian

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against a whitewashed wall.

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And out of their deaths, a
nova bursts in dazzling light.

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I am well at last.

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Now I may swim again in the
bay of champs dispersal,

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oblivious to shark or metronome,
or those hideous lilies

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with mouths full
of rotten teeth.

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The navies of
anxiety await anchor.

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The sun is up, and shut that
great eye tending its iron shop

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window in the bronchitic city.

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