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And now I'm going to
read the first poem

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that I wrote after he died,
that I realized showed me

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that I really needed to let
this book become what it wanted

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to be.

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And then, I couldn't
keep him out of it.

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Please advise, stop.

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I was dragging a ladder
slowly over stones, stop.

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It was only from
out of my thoughts

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that I could climb, stop.

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Not from this room, please.

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My father's dying offered
an indelicate washing

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of my perception, stop.

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The way the centers of
some syllables scrub

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away all other sound, stop.

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His corpse merely preparing to
speak its new name at the speed

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of night falling, please.

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Each loss grows from a
previously unremarkable

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vestigial organ, stop.

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Will I act now as if
with a new limb, stop.

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A phantom limb of the
familial, please advise.

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