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And a couple of months
later, I wrote this poem--

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"American Roots--
Moral Associations."

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Kinship-- is embarrassing the
wind, like dead black boys,

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falling down from the
trees, then downstream--

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on their knees.

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Blood like, like a rich nation.

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Metaphor-- becomes
humiliating, and clean, ticking

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like a ripe machine.

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Do not bend, fold,
or mutilate me.

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This is your future speaking.

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The air smells so metaphysical.

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We have accused it--

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of smog, and lost
manhood, then all ritual.

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Whoever wrote-- a view
is a mountain speaking

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but left the introduction
for the snow,

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and accused silence of its soul.

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The whole nation-- is
a stanza of blackness,

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a huge white whale, faith in
space, like the newspapers,

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and the quiet insistence
we have peace,

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and it is your world, brother.

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Now, earlier, one of
the little postcard

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poems I read to you
used the name Queequeg.