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This is a poem, which is
in three line stanzas.

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And the lines are fairly short.

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Home Movies.

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In my movie, the two
lovers sleep in the woods.

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Their parents' hammers
sound all night as rain.

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The man is dreaming
about his father's fists,

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the woman about her hair.

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In the morning, they're shocked
at the cage under the oaks.

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In your movie, the
man's father poke

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sticks at the lovers
hoping they'll fight.

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In mine, the woman's
mother offers

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gifts her daughter
recognizes, barrettes

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lost at a school picnic
and the small red mitten

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dropped once in the snow.

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Shall the parents unlock the
door sure that the lovers'

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sadness will be permanent?

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In your ending, the
lovers wander free all day

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but at dusk the
man's father appears

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with his hammers erecting
the same cage every night

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of their lives.

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My movie isn't finished.

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Sometimes the parents
reveal their invisible cage

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only at the first death.

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Who shall it be?

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The woman asking for water,
she hasn't time to swallow,

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or the man with angina?

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Otherwise they grow
old, the man stepping

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into his father's fishing pants,
the woman cutting her hair.

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