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This poem is called
"Dreaming Winter".

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I went to bed hungry one
night and I had nightmares.

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So you should never go to bed
hungry if you can help it.

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Don't ask me if these
knives are real.

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I could paint a King or
show a map the way home.

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To go like this--

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wobble me back from
a tiger's dream,

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a dream of knives and bones
too common to be exposed.

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My secrets are ignored.

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Here comes the man I love.

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His coat is wet and
his face is falling

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like the leaves, tobacco
stains on his Polish teeth.

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I could tell jokes about him.

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One up for the man who brags
a lot, laughs a little,

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and hangs his name
on the nearest knob.

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Don't ask me.

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I know it's only hunger.

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I saw that king,
the one my sister

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knew but was allergic to.

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Her face ran until
his eyes became

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the white of several winters.

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Snow on his bed told him that
the silky tears were uniformly

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mad and all the
money in the world

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couldn't bring him
to a tragic end.

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Shame or fortune
tricked me to his table,

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shattered my one standing
lie with new kinds of fame.

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Have mercy on me, Lord.

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Really.

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If I should die before I
wake, take me to that place.

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I just heard banging in my ears.

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Don't ask me.

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Let me join the other kings,
the ones who trade their knives

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for a sack of keys.

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Let me open any door,
stand winter still

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and drowned in a common dream.

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