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OK, I'm going to read.

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I'm going to read
next some prose

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poems which I've been writing
in the last year or two.

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They're quite new and it's a
kind of newer thing that poets

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are doing.

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So I won't try to explain it.

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The first of these
is called Bark.

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Grotesque, all those
anxieties eating their way out

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as we get older, your
old governess remember

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the way she wore her
woolen stockings all

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knotted and rolled like
the veins in her legs

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always tugging at them.

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Out of breath one
thigh straining

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against the worn upholstery,
and the elephant's foot

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your favorite cousin
brought you from Africa

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for your 10th birthday.

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He set it down in your
bedroom, your eyes

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astonished at how rough
its wrinkles were.

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The coarseness of the
inch long hairs stiffer

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even than the brush
your father used

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after he had forced your tiny
fists out from behind you.