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This poem is called
"They crowd."

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It has an epigraph, it's in
a few prose poem sections,

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and I'm not going
to read them all.

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The epigraph is
from Elias Canetti

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who wrote a book called
Crowds and Power.

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"They crowd."

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"There is nothing humans
fear more than the touch

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of the unknown.

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It is only in a crowd that
one is free of that fear."

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Elias Canetti.

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"They assemble to make food,
share food, and to dance.

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They assemble for work
and to work others.

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They assemble sun,
altar, veil to sacrifice

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and to prayer, Endless in
their religions of lament.

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They assemble to build, to
dress, to hoist weapons,

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and to march.

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They assemble to shore.

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They vanquish unbelievers.

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They assemble to drape the sick
and to heap the newly dead.

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They assemble to spectatorship,
to devour, interrogate,

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and to judge.

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They assemble to chant, and
in chanting, lose themselves.

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They dissemble to believe
and then, believe to crave,

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and to mourn.

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They dissemble to sleep
and in sleeping, dream.

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They dreaming, die to
spirit, and in spirit, rise."

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