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This poem is called White
Notes, and it's an example,

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I think, of something I
call benign obscurity,

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meaning if I explained
it, you could understand.

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No, no, no.

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There are other kinds
too, and people like

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it like other kinds as well.

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I only like benign obscurity.

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White Notes.

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It's in several little sections.

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The first.

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Suddenly there was a
dress inhabited in motion.

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It contained a forest,
small birds, rivers.

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It contains the ivory of
piano keys, white notes.

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Across the back of a
chair, skins of animals

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dried in the moon.

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Two.

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It happened.

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Your body went out of your body.

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It rose to let the
air in, the night.

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From the sheets it rose, from
the bare floor, floating.

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Over roofs, smaller
and smaller, lost.

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Entangled now in the cold
arms of distant street lamps.

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Three.

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The city forgets where you live.

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It wanders through many streets,
and the streets turn, confused,

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upon one another.

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Parks have deserted themselves.

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All night, awnings are
whipped and cannot remember.

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Oh, forgotten, umbrella.

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Darkness saw you, air displaced
you, words erased you.

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Four.

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And afterwards, after the
quenching of the street lamps,

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long after the ivory could
have been brought back

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to life by any touch.

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Afterwards, when
I might have told

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you the address of your future.

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Long after the future,
when the umbrella

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had been closed forever.

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Then, when not
even the moon would

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have the power to
bruise you anymore.

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Then, in another time.

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