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"The Reckonings" has
a two-line epigraph,

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the last two lines of which
come just before the songs.

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In "Reckonings," just
the two lines go,

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"I cannot find the dance
to rid me of this poison."

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And then, in Songs, the
completing couplet is,

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"I cannot find the house
to hold me when I dance."

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These are the poems
then that I started

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to write when I decided
I didn't want to do

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any more retrospective poems.

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"I am empty, given to a
silence I despise and need.

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I make nothing true.

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When I try to speak without
lies, nothing comes.

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I cannot bear the silence.

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My mouth is a deep
lie crying out,

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my face a method of deceit.

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My hands lie cruelly,
abrupt and graceless.

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So I hang from my bones
like rotten fruit,

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bleeding and sweet,
and only half

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covered by this swarm of worms."

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