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[CLEARING THROAT]

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I read a little passage that I
was able to salvage from a very

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bad translation of André Breton,
that I was talking about with

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Dick Shelton this afternoon
because I think it serves

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as a kind of introduction
to this next poem.

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It's called "Rather
Life," the poem,

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and I was able just to
salvage about six lines or so

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that make any sense, the
translation was so bad,

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but this was some nice lines.

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"The life of presences
nothing but presences, where

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a voice says, are you there?

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And a voice answers,
are you there?

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Alas, I am very
little fair, yet even

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if we fall into the
hands of what we cause

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to die, life, rather life."

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The idea of presences,
life of presences

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was what I'm referring
to here in this poem.