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It's a poem called Tools, and
it probably is not complete.

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For an uncle I lived with,
name is Elmo, Elmo Casanova.

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And he worked in the mines and
then later in the foundries.

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And this is a poem
that was meant for him.

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It also is in four
small sections.

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Grandmother calls from the door
6:00 o'clock, and Elmo's home

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from the mines at the back porch
drinking the first cold beer.

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Later he will bend to the pump
beneath the arbor and water

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like a tired animal and rise his
face and hands still grained.

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Where he opens his
collar, his skin

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is white shining,
a small crescent

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moon in the early dusk.

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He is the brother I invent.

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I am someone leaving
his tools in the rain.

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In the backyard I beat a 2
by 4 to death, my hands tear,

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water burns.

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I moon behind the gooseberry
bush, the cat mocks me

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and I don't learn.

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I grow up with a cat, open and
close some books, Elmo's home

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from the mines.

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I build some paper
houses, move in and out,

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Elmo's home from the mines.

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The letter is vague.

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It says they've found you in
the house a great blue fist

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on your neck, my
God the trouble,

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and you rocking your
knees towards sleep

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behind a dark window the pills
don't help, the trouble piles

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up, we don't learn.

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This is the hammer,
these are the nails.

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You are my brother
left out in the rain.

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This is the bit and
the sack of dust.

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This is the bread that
stinks of carbide.

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These are the numbers in the
dark rising in their true names

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in the name of crowbar which is
one, in the name of broken back

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which is two.

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This is the penis that lugs
and sweats like a horse.

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These are the hands in
their crust of sleep.

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The moon rises, the seams
of the Earth gather water.

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You awaken a lost room, your
day's burning like a bridge.

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