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So many thanks to Gail
Browne, to Cybele,

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to the Poetry Center,
to this incredible jewel

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that you have here, to Jane
Miller, to Alison Deming,

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to all of you for being here,
and for your love of poetry.

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And to Melissa for taking me to
the Desert Museum again, today.

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"The Decameron."

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"Don't think in sleep I am
absent in this repeating night

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as in names, oh, nothing to me.

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Don't think I am ready to be
skeletal age glued to my neck,

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but what am I here blind
to, for I am always

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blind to something i.e.

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everything we see is made up of
90 chemical elements tunneling

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through the energy barrier.

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And a blue square applied
to the body of the Earth.

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And if they said here, live
here, 6 billion of you,

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and we did.

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Ready to smile in the
morning and shed tears

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at night, and tomorrow, and in
the evening, and the next day,

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again.

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At the dark and keyless
light, shapely galaxies, smoky

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galleons monkey around.

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I'm standing close
to Earth's surface

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studying the nighttime sky
without the aid of science.

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To the fireball that
started off the universe

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some 15 billion
years ago, hello,

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from us with origins in dust."

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