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You know, many poems
are occasioned by,

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or spring out of events, things
which the poems don't directly

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talk about, or in fact don't
seem to have really that

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much to do with.

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I read this poem partly
because the occasion

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was the announcement that David
Dellinger, and Jerry Rubin,

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and Hoffman, and all
those cats were being

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brought to trial in Chicago.

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And everybody had
a pretty good idea

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of what was going to happen,
but we really had no idea.

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"Soon the ministers
will be putting

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on their expensive overcoats.

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The wing dips over
the sunlit city,

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covering the crumbling walls.

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One succumbs to the
fog late at night.

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It seems the earth can open at
any moment, jump over the fence

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to a waiting car.

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Tonight is like walking on
ice, slippery as a cunt.

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It comes, a secret lover
crucified on the crosshairs.

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The leaves lit up
by the rising smoke.

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Foretelling the future is
one of our heavy industries."

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