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OK.

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The next poem is
called Signatures.

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It's more philosophical
in most of these poems,

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and it's also one that
I think I haven't quite

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worked out at the end.

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It's called Signatures.

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A man repeats himself each act
of his life like a signature,

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a wave of his hand
that hangs in the air

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long after the train takes him.

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The actual wheel chair
and the man in it

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motionless, watching himself
than the world he loves slide

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past a blur in the spokes.

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Books pictures the wall
with its Indian rug

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figured all he earns the
design the wheel make

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shattering each moment.

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This space we surround with
walls and carry out of doors

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imagining it is our own
freedom we hear flutter

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from a tree, bits of
the planet turning, gold

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and a bird's beak.

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The wheel lets go when we
spring upright like grasses,

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the wind curving through us,
the line that divides light

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from darkness.

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