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Here's something else,
It's called "The Plunge"

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This next poem, and I'm
trying to imitate in the poem

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the feeling of plunging
into the water.

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Actually I'm a lousy diver with
me, it would just be a jump.

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I'm plunging into the water
and then swimming underwater

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as long as your breath can
hold out before you finally

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come up again.

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And I'm trying to get the almost
muscular feeling of doing this

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and the feeling of
your breath going on,

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but also I want this to
imply any action which

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you commit yourself which lasts
some time and the commitment.

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Well frankly, I'm speaking
about certain kinds of drug trip

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in this among other
things, and you just

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know you've got to hold on
until you come out of it.

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But all that is
needed for the poem--

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I'm symbols can be
boring, can't they?

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Let's keep to the literal.

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All that one needs
to know is the idea

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of plunging into the water
and swimming underwater.

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"The Plunge."

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A pure bold plunge into--

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down a rope of bubbles, trapped
where you chose to come,

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it is all there is.

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The brute thrust of
entering this all

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alien like a bitter
sheath, each nerve, each

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atom of skin tightens against
it to a gliding and moving with,

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its flesh could become
water it, and lust

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flying a blurred sunken sky
where you carry your own pail

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home with you.

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At rest in your own prolonged
ache and the testing forward,

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how much more can the body take?

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How much dare?

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It is all there is, till the
body knows now it's time.

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Let's go holding almost
till too late gives itself

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to the slow rejection, you
go limp on it, a gentle lift,

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you wait on it, wait
you, eat the air.

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