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Well, I deliberately wanted
to read something trying

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for some kind of extremes and
read something leveled, that

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at least purports to be a
message you wouldn't want

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too reserved a
speaker and so on,

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and all this grim background.

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And then this other, in order
to try to reach and think of us

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today in class, or trying to
muster a definition for poetry.

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And one of them would be, if
anything is said in such a way

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or put on the page in
such a way as to invite

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from the hearer or the reader,
a certain kind of attention.

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And I say this defensively,
about that one "Religion Back

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Home."

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It was published
as a poem, but I

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have to have a definition,
sort of like that one I just

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gave in order to qualify.

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"Thinking For Berky."

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In the late night,
listening from bed,

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I've joined the
ambulance, or the patrol

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screaming toward some drama.

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The kind of end that
Berky must have someday,

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if she isn't dead.

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The wildest of all, her
father and mother cruel.

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Farming out there
beyond the old stone

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quarry, where high school lovers
parked their lurching cars.

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Berky learned to love
in that dark school.

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Early her face was
turned away from home,

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toward any hardworking
place, but still

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her soul with terrible
things to do was alive.

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Looking out for the
rescue that surely someday

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would have to come.

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Windiest night, Berky I
have thoughts for you.

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And no matter how lucky I've
been, I've touched wood.

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There are things not solved in
our town, though tomorrow came.

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There are things time passing,
can never make come true.

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We live in an occupied
country, misunderstood.

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Justice will take us
millions of intricate moves.

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Sirens will hunt down Berky,
you survivors in your beds.

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While in the night, you
lie so far and good.

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