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Mostly, I've tried to pick
poems that I have written

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since I was here 11 years ago.

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And so that I wouldn't be
repeating myself too much.

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This pooem is called A Letter.

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You write that you
are ill, confused.

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The trees outside the
window of the room they

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gave you are wet with tears each
morning when they wake you out

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of the sleep.

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You never quite fall into.

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There is some dream of
traffic in your head

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that stops and goes and goes
and does not stop sometimes

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all night all day.

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The motorcade winds past
you like the funeral cortege

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of someone famous.

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You had slept with
once or twice.

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Another fit of tears
dampens the leaves the page.

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You would expose your wounds,
pull down your blouse,

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and bosom yourself wholly
to the young doctor, who

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has the power to sign
prescriptions passes who

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seems to like you.

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And so to pass into
the city once again.

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One of us hurrying by
the damp trees of a park

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towards a familiar intersection,
where the traffic signal warned

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you not to cross, to wait
just as before alone.

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But suddenly, 10 years
older now, tamed, less mad,

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less beautiful.

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