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All right I'll read
a rather long poem

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in three parts which has to
do with your history too.

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And it was written in 1966.

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Out in the open.

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One.

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Late autumn labyrinth on
the porch of the woods

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are thrown away
battle go in, woods

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are silent abandoned
houses this time of year.

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Just a few sounds now, as
if someone were moving twigs

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around careful with pincers, or
as if an ion hinge were whining

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feebly inside the snake trunk.

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Frost has breathed
on the mushrooms

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and they have
shriveled up, they look

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like objects and
clothing left behind

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by people who have disappeared.

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The dusk here already.

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The thing to do now is to get
out and find the landmarks

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again.

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The rusty machine
out in the field,

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and the house on the other side
of the lake, the red square

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intense as a bouillon cube.

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Two.

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A letter from America
drove me out again,

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started me walking
through the luminous June

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night in the empty suburban
streets among newborn districts

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without memories
cool as blueprints.

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Lettering in my pocket,
you wild raging walking,

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your kind of prayer for others.

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Over there, evil and
good actually have faces.

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For the most part with us
it's a fight between route,

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numbers, shades of light.

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The people who do
death's errands for him

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don't shy from daylight,
they roll from glass offices

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they mill about
in the bright sun.

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They lean forward over a table
and throw a look to the side.

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Far off I found myself
standing in front

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of one of the new buildings.

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Many windows flow together
there into a single window.

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In it, the luminous
night sky was

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caught and the walking trees--

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it was a mirror-like
lake with no waves turned

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on edge in the summer night.

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Violence seemed Unreal
for a few moments.

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Three.

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Sun burning the
plane comes in low

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throwing a shadow shaped
like a giant cross that

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rushes over the ground.

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The man is sitting in the
field poking at something.

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The shadow arrives.

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For a fraction of a second,
he's right in the center

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of the cross.

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I have seen the cross hanging
in the cool church vaults.

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At times it resembles a split
second shot of something

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moving at tremendous speed.

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