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A poem called "Household."

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We can leave this
house to termites.

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My body doesn't live here,
or separate from yours.

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I hear them munching
in the dry adobe straw,

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letting the elements in.

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What valence in weathered rail
beams, or did the tree cry out?

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I can't reconcile the
summer cloud of blank heat,

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leaving me tilted back
endlessly in a reclining chair.

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With that angle
of street clouds,

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and low sun on that night of
the first cold North Star.

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Each angle, an energy between
each blue perfect sky.

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Here in my retreat, an autumn
twilight, dark foil of the day,

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an hour inside me.

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My mind is the house, cold tile
floors, a knotty pine ceiling

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weighed upon by the ghosts
of Fat Fuzzel and Mugs,

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hair all over the
walls, stucco cracks.

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Please don't clean
our love away.

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Occupado.

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You know me, I'm the
man who travels a lot.

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I was in a weird mood
when I wrote that one.

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