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Look, I'll just read a few more.

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My voice is starting
to disappear.

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This is a very strange poem.

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It's called, "Beauty
and the Beast."

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And well, it feels, it reads
very much like a dream,

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so let's allow it to be
a dream for the moment.

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Every once in a while,
somebody says, "let me in,"

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that's in quotes and there's a
little girl saying, let me in--

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a little four-year-old girl.

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Beauty and the Beast.

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"Let me in," the four-year-old
in printed dress and rubber

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boots knocks on the
door in the white woods.

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A jackrabbit scurries invisibly
across the fragile roof

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of snow and hides
behind the rotted oak.

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The coyote, lion, and
half-blind dumb wild pig

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remain asleep inside.

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All this occurred before
the dream of a girl

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turned into a beast--

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the pink scar tensing the
mouth in a permanent grin

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of aftermath, the one
wide open improbable eye.

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"But it's only a
dream," she cries,

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"and couldn't happen
to a princess."

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Though it was
afternoon, I slept.

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And whatever takes
place in my dream,

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I am faultless
and a child again.

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The mother watches from the
window idly watering flowers.

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And the large black stubborn
dog mounting his mate,

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on an endless ladder, for him
this is a dream twice yearly

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of the maddening odor of
bitch into which he strides,

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he growls.

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"Let me in," says the Princess.

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The dream's unlocked teeth
plunge into her face--

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the face in the window,
the face in the dream

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ripped half-off like
a door from its hinge.

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Blood rushing from
the bared skull

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onto the pure, white
dream of snow over which

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she trudges crazily home.

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"Up horsie, whoa horsie, whoa."

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There is no horse, no princess,
no beast from fairy tales.

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Only a dog dreaming of
bullets raining down

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like bad weather and
a man slamming a car

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door at the dreams, and
she whispers, "let me in."

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And I wake sweating in a room
with a strange, one-eyed,

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improbable princess by my side.

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