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This is called
"Waking in the Dark."

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I was walking
around the American

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Museum of Natural
History in New York

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once, with the husband
of a friend of mine,

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and he told me that the shape
of the cobblestones that we were

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walking over was the
shape of the, sort of,

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fundamental molecule
of living organism.

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"The thing that
arrests me is how

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we are composed of molecules--

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he showed me the figure
and the paving stones--

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arranged without our
knowledge and consent,

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like the wirephoto composed
of millions of dots,

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in which the man
from Bangladesh walks

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starving on the front page,
knowing nothing about it,

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which is his presence
for the world.

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We were standing in line
outside of something,

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two by two, or alone in
pairs, or simply alone,

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looking into windows
full of scissors,

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windows full of shoes.

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The street was closing,
the city was closing,

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would we be the lucky
ones to make it?

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They were showing
in a glass case,

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the Man Without A Country.

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We held up our passports in
his face, we wept for him.

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They are dumping animal
blood into the sea

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to bring up the sharks.

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Sometimes every aperture
of my body leaks blood.

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I don't know whether to
pretend that this is natural.

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Is there a law about
this, a law of nature?

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You worship the blood.

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You call it hysterical bleeding.

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You want to drink it like milk.

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You dip your finger
into it and write.

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You faint the smell of it.

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You dream of dumping
me into the sea.

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The tragedy of sex
lies around us,

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a woodlot the axes
are sharpened for.

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The old shelters and huts
stare through the clearing

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with a certain resolution--

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the hermits cabin,
the hunters shack--

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scenes of masturbation
and dirty jokes.

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A man's world.

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But finished.

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They themselves have
sold it to the machines.

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I walk the unconscious
forest, a woman

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dressed in old army fatigues
that have shrunk to fit her.

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I am lost at moments.

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I feel dazed by the sun
pawing between the trees,

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cold in the bog and
lichen of the thicket.

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Nothing will save this.

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I am alone, kicking
the last rotting logs

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with their strange smell
of life, not death,

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wondering what on earth
it all might have become.

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Clarity, spray,
blinding and purging.

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Spears of sun
striking the water.

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The bodies riding
the air like gliders.

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The bodies in slow motion,
falling into the pool

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at the Berlin Olympics.

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Control, loss of control.

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The bodies rising,
arching back to the tower,

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time reeling backward.

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Clarity of open air, before the
dark chambers with the shower

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heads.

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The bodies falling again,
freely, faster than light.

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The water opening like
air, like realization.

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A woman made this film
against the law of gravity.

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All night dreaming
of a body space

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weighs on differently from mine.

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We are making love
in the street.

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The traffic flows off from
us, pouring back like a sheet.

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The asphalt stirs
with tenderness.

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There is no dismay.

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We move together like
underwater plants.

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Over and over, starting to wake,
I dive back to discover you,

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still whispering, touch me.

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We go on streaming through the
slow citylight forest ocean,

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stirring our body hair.

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But this is the saying
of a dream on waking.

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I wish there was somewhere
actual we could stand,

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handing the power-glasses
back and forth,

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looking at the earth,
the wildwood where

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the split began."

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