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Here's an allegorical thing.

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I still have to
work on the opening,

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but I'd written so
many notes for Dante

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that I felt I had to
write a footnote poem.

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This is called "Exegesis
of an Allegorical Text."

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And the passage cited is
"What Yearning Fills Me."

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Sit.

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Do not fail to note eleven, one.

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I yearn, therefore I am.

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Replies reversing phrasing
in numerology to one eleven..

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I am, therefore I yearn.

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Meaning is what repeats
itself once started.

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Allegory is music, not rhetoric.

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It does not speak.

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It listens itself to rest.

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On the narrative
level of course,

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brave Archibald
has reason enough

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for more specific yearning.

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Dueling with hated
Bardo at gate twelve,

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he is distracted by the
usual vision of Angelina

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atop the battlements
praying for his triumph.

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His rapt soul, quote,
"soars like a fountain

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to her, flowing
fixed," end quote.

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And in that instant,
hated Bardo strikes.

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Now in the dust, his
amputated sword arm

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still gripping good blade by
him, his Angelina struggling

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to leap from the
battlements, but held back

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by dwarfish servitors.

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While hated Bardo stands
with Snicksnack's point

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against his throat,
brave Archibald

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declares, what
yearning fills me.

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[COUGHS]

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Note too that hated
Bardo yearns for nothing.

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He has what has fallen to
him, and most has fallen.

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Why else is he hated?

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In no particular
fashion, as he might

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call for dinner it being
time, he leans on Snicksnack,

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cutting off further
remarks, then

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masters Angelina
who comes surprised

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to foreseeable conclusions.

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From time to time, he
hacks a few more heroes

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as they come and takes
a few more angels.

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Each, in turn, learning
that beastliness

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is a sort of fun
girls can get used to.

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Later, everyone dies,
know one more matter

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of factly than hated Bardo
who yearned for nothing

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and never once complained.

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As for the author, his
last deception practiced,

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he memorizes lines to
recite at the orgy that

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finds accommodation with a
slave girl who suffers him

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as if he had more to give,
a fact he is aware of

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and honors her for.

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Though, he curses
himself next morning

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for booting the chance
to recite the passage

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and possibly win a patron.

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