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This is called "Trying
to Talk with a Man."

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"Out in this desert,
we are testing

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bombs, that's why we came here.

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Sometimes, I feel an underground
river forcing its way

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between deformed cliffs, an
acute angle of understanding,

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moving itself, like
a locus of the sun,

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into this condemned scenery.

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What we've had to
give up to get here--

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whole LP collections,
films we starred in,

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playing in the
neighborhoods, bakery

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windows full of dry
chocolate filled

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Jewish cookies, the language of
love letters, of suicide notes,

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afternoons on the riverbank,
pretending to be children.

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Coming out to this
desert we meant

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to change the face of, driving
among dull green succulents,

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walking at noon
in the ghost town,

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surrounded by a
silence that sounds

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like a silence of the place,
except that it came with us,

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and is familiar, and everything
we were saying until now

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was an effort to blot it out.

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Coming out here we
are up against it.

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Out here, I feel more helpless
with you than without you.

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You mention the danger
and list the equipment.

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We talk of people caring for
each other in emergencies--

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laceration, thirst--

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but you look at me
like an emergency.

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Your dry heat feels like power.

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Your eyes are stars of
a different magnitude.

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They reflect lights that spell
out 'EXIT,' when you get up

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and pace the floor,
talking of the danger,

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as if it were not ourselves,
as if we were testing anything

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else."

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