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This next one is
called "Seagulls."

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There are a couple
of references here

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that might be obscure to
somebody that's say under 30.

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Those you can trust
in other words.

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One is North German
Lloyd, which is really

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the name of a German
shipping line.

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And the other is
the Bremen, which

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is a once famous German liner,
who was a very nifty ship

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to be on.

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OK, this is called "Seagulls".

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A pair slow wide arcs in
the air above this house.

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Times blue face, I want
to scribble something.

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Like, a child in
a movie theater to

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runs to the screen
and traces a circle

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there with her finger
- small and tentative.

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The past remembers itself.

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Girls in white tennis dresses.

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Lunging for the
ball when missing.

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Carried beyond themselves,
their defenses.

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The boy on a merry
go round, it's me.

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My bare knees on his
black wooden planks.

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There's some paint
missing under the nostrils

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where the teeth should be.

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The music starts, the
horse is taking me up.

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I have to lean way
over to the right.

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My hands straining
for the brass ring.

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I missed it.

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And the horse my sister's
on, the white one,

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I'll never catch up.

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Strange, the odor brass
has, impossible to convince

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yourself, it's only a smell.

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The door handles at 73rd
street, and the flat oval,

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its surface neatly lettered.

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North German Lloyd, my
parents are waving to us

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from the deck of the Bremen.

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Mom's face and it's
gray felt oval.

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Looking down from
the rail and waving.

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They have drawn
back the gangplank.

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The dock still vibrating
from the last blast

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of the steam whistle.

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