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"Acquired Tastes."

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"I say goodbye first
to things I've missed,

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trips I didn't take, and all the
books still waiting in shelves.

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Perhaps there's an island where
I could be God, the flickering

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wit of an ancient littoral.

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So late in life, I came
to important things.

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Fly casting, cheap wine,
necessary indolence,

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a return to the sea,
vines, tangled snakes,

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poison the Earth builds at
night, roots of a stump,

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clouds, what must be touched,
ingested, trout, carp, pearls,

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believable coal.

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All you are tired of,
all you haven't had.

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Visionary plants
you haven't tried.

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Sex you haven't imagined.

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Limited space.

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Another bird you haven't named.

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Charts, maps, the
sea without them.

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The distance from
Moscow to Leningrad.

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Toys you must have.

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Imagined loves and something
in the mailbox waiting."

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That mailbox seems to be
a big thing with poets.

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Most upsetting thing to a
poet is if the mail's late,

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it seems, generally.

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Or if it's a holiday.

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