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OK here's a few
more short poems.

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Which I should tell you just
briefly what the circumstances

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were when I wrote them.

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They're short, they're topical,
they're totally disposable

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poems, I'm sure.

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And I wrote them about a
year, year and a half ago,

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I was living on a community
in Southern Vermont.

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And it was one of those
things where we'd all

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been talking it seemed
like incessantly for weeks

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and months about this,
that and the other thing

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and doing all kinds
of stuff together.

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And it was just about impossible
not to take everything

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seriously, which is horrible.

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And we'd all agree to disagree
permanently and irrevocably on

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about everything and we're
still living together.

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And then one day
when in the spring,

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I just felt like it
was so much stuff

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I just wanted to just spit
it out get it off my chest

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and I found myself
suddenly writing poems

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about almost everything we'd
ever talked about there.

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And not being in
favor of anything

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or disfavor of anything so much
as just being grouchy about it

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all.

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This is one called "Bifocal."

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"Perhaps to marry
once and for all

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is like welding yourself
to the deck of a ship

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you enjoyed a trip on once.

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But to refuse any
marriage whatsoever,

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is like a bird not
flying, refusing

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the support of the air."

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