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I think after that a calm
poem, a straight love poem.

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Still about water, now
it's a-- as I said,

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it seems to me that this water
is the engine of the universe.

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We all burn in a
combustion of water.

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Our metabolism uses
water all the time.

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We sweat, we exhale water.

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We are like flames
of water burning.

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And sometimes, you can
sit still and imagine this

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and see this and see
yourself by the water that

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flows through you.

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The river that you can
never step in twice

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as you could never experience
the same thing in your body

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twice.

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You can sit aside
and contemplate this.

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And you can see it in the
commonplace things in sweat,

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in a hot room, the
window mists up.

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And of course, lovers right
on windowpanes their initials

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where the water is misting.

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When the steam is misting,
they write their initials.

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A heart with an arrow
through it to link them.

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And this is a love poem
about sweat, and about water,

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and about the flame in
which everybody burns.

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It's called "Sweat."

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"I sit in the hot
room and I sweat.

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I see the cool pain
be due with me.

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My skin breathes out
and pearls the window

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pane likes it and clings to it.

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She comes in.

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She loves me and she
loves our children, too.

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And still the sweat is
trickling down the pain.

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The breath of life makes
cooling streaks and wobbles

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down the pain.

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We breathe and burn.

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We burn all together
in a hot room.

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Our sweat is smoking down
the windowpane marks time.

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I smoke, I stir, and there I
write PRBR, a streaming heart.

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The sun strikes at it
down a wide hollow shaft.

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Birds swing on the beams,
boil off the grass."

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