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And the last poem
in Reckonings, it's

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called "Begging to be Born".

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"No gentle birth.

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No easy waking.

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Years of my life, I've
slept with only this dream

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of the world, that the world
was a dream that afraid.

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Paralyzed into poems
where I've nursed

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the unacknowledged
passions of my life.

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The cutting edge of death moving
surely even through this dream.

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You're dying all around me.

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You leave me speaking
this calm voice that

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records guts and preserves.

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This voice I've dreamed accepts
me when there is no exception.

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How can I wake and survive?

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To wake now is to
die for the crime

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of wasting my life in a
sleep, a reasonable and calm.

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Wake me.

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Wake me now.

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And to such pain,
I cannot speak,

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but must cry out cries
so strong from the roots

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of their anguish, roots of
their joy that my hungers sing."

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