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I'll read three or four or more.

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Here's one I wrote that I
haven't really read much

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because I think it's not done.

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But I think there are
some good things in it.

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It's called Butte Montana
For No One You Would Know.

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And Butte is the big copper
mining place in Montana.

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And it used to be called
the richest hole on Earth

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and then it was the second
richest hole on Earth.

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And now I don't know what it
is, but it's certainly not

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very rich anymore.

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It's always the same, that
rough pit across your face,

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truck's grinding up and down the
second richest hole on Earth.

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That slow gin that kept you
going until you really left.

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Years before, your mother
mourned by a grave remote

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is ash, bleak as the creek
that flows through Beaver flats

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In Eagle dreams you
wish you never had.

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It was your father, my
father who left us late

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that March, our youth
around his neck,

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gody funeral ties we were
in rain not deer enough.

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Later we faced each other down.

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You always won I think.

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If winning is so
much meat, if shadows

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count as points against my
eyes, I should say you lost.

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We called you copper king down
there in that second greatest

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hole on Earth but never in
this crisis ridden world to me.

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Sleepy, those great wings
beating in your dreams

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never quite belong to you.

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They were the prize,
so you killed yourself,

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and I am blessed, left with
life and words that mean exactly

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lost.

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