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"The Whip."

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I spent a night turning in bed.

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My love was a feather,
a flat, sleeping thing.

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She was very white and quiet.

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And above us on
the roof, there was

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another woman I also loved, had
addressed myself to in a fit.

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She returned.

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That encompasses it.

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But now I was lonely.

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I yelled, but what is that?

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Ugh, she said beside me.

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She put her hand on my back, for
which act I think to say this,

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wrongly."

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Because one of the
things I do most

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fear in writing is
the issue of habit,

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or what happens when a sense
of form or sense of possibility

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becomes too known,
so that all one does

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is simply a repetition of
what one knows how to do.

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I think in this middle
section, I began to see--

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not simply, I hope,
to play tricks,

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but to see what different
kinds of line, for example,

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how they would affect the
possibilities of what could be

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said.

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This particular one
I chose, I think,

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because it has a long line,
in contrast to these others,

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where the line is
so markedly short.