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This is a love poem.

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"Forehead"

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"I love you.

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I know as much as anything,
for your courage so

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companionable
invisible as it is,

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that it passes mostly
as simple good sense.

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I don't mean you're
practical at all.

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God forbid.

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Only persistent as far as
dying brothers and cold calls

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are concerned.

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Not violent, not weak, but like
a lantern a float on a wave.

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Open if necessary, to
sinking your light offshore.

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Onshore I am as you
would know strongly,

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sometimes impatient, and inside
a swarm of loud thoughts,

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self-absorbed and locked up.

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If you were to die, who would
remove me from those thoughts?

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When you lean your
forehead against mine

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what you hear inside there
are all those sounds likely,

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vibrations like
window panes rattled

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by headland squalls
or bullet trains,

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late forever and loaded
down with passengers

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green as hoodie-wearing witches.

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I lean my forehead
against your forehead,

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gently knowing both
will shortly vanish.

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First of all, says Virgil, find
a protected place for the bees

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to make their honey, a place
that's safe from wind."

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So that last sentence was a
quote from Virgil's "Georgics",

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which I found actually,
I mean, there were--

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Virgil, parts of Virgil
that I love, but I found

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the "Georgics" a little boring.

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It's mostly about farming.

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If you like, want to
learn how to farm,

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Virgil's "Georgics" is
where you should go.

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I'm a city guy.

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Yeah.

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