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This is a poem I wrote
in the early fall

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after having been
away from the summer,

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coming back to a different kind
of work than lying on the beach

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and writing poetry.

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It's called "Waking
at the End of Summer."

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"In this heat, the
vacation come and gone,

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the body shrinks to
fit the lives we lead.

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Small hopes float
to Earth to sleep.

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We put up with office
jokes and solemn words

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for brief summers of respite.

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A typist's heart skips a beat.

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She drowsed and heard
the water fall for hours.

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Our lives, if they are
common, run on like string

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from a miser's enormous hoard,
played out parsimoniously,

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as the seasons pass.

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The joke is on us for
being so convivial.

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We groan and weep and
knuckle out of bed

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to greet our fellows because
to sleep is to dream.

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And we've had enough of that."

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