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And these two are--

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I mean, it's
addressed to my wife.

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And these are over--

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these are clearly, to
me, addressed to my wife.

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This is called "The Yes."

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"Each day for years, it
gets up at first light,

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lets the dove out, and
stands in the doorway

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looking at the soft blue
Arkansas sky without waking.

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But never you mind, it will
be packing its small suitcase

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soon.

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It will leave the keys
dangling from the lock

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and set out across
the ravens brook

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and barefoot through the
pathless wood of books.

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Already, it is
traveling toward me.

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Somehow, I know this.

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Though, blinded as I leave
the outer brilliance,

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though the stench of urine hit
me like a blow, and, once more,

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in the blink of an eye,
I am back at my watch,

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pretty mauled by a
vicious cycle, right

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in the middle of
raising a 20 pound shot

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glass toward the general
vicinity of my lips the way

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a long ruined jeweler might
gradually guide from long habit

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the loop to an empty eye socket.

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But the suicides you
always have with you.

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Maybe I'm just cruising
around late at night

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and waiting at what
is already the longest

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red light in Western history.

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No other car in
sight, there never

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will be, not in
my private city--

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scared, sick.

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I'm the Very Last
Person, the VLP,

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abandoned to man by himself.

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This glass-bottomed
space station,

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one more ragged meat bone
we'll always have haunting us,

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floating in a gray soup of
its own filth and misery.

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What are you going to do?

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Let's say, later on, I
happen to hang a sharp left

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for no reason I can think of
at an unfamiliar corner just

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in time to glimpse a small
three-legged dog making

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his way down the dark sidewalk.

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And, finally, I asked to
be given a new name which

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nobody knows and a new heart.

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In ascending progressions,
the first dawn

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waves, traversing that universe
where the more you disappear,

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the more vividly
present you become,

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where the slower the
velocity, the sooner

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the time of the arrival.

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The answer is on its way.

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