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This is called "August."

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"Two horses in yellow light,
eating windfall apples

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under a tree as summer tears
apart, milkweeds stagger,

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and grasses grow more ragged.

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They say there are
ions in the sun,

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neutralizing magnetic
fields on earth.

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Some way to explain
what this week

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has been, and the one before it.

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If I am flesh
sunning on rock, if I

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am brain burning in
fluorescent light,

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if I am dream like a wire
with fire throbbing along it,

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if I am death to man,
I have to know it.

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His mind is too simple.

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I cannot go on sharing
his nightmares.

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My own are becoming clearer.

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They opened into prehistory,
which looks like a village lit

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with blood, where all
the fathers are crying,

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'My son is mine.'"

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