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"Yours."

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"I'd like every girl in the
world to have a poem of her own

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I've written for her.

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I don't even want
to make love to them

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all anymore, just write things.

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Your body makes me delirious.

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Your face enchants me.

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You are a wonder of soul,
spirit, intelligence, one

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for everyone.

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And then the men, I don't
care whether I can still

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beat them all.

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Them too, a poem
for them, how many?

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Seeing you could go through
woods like part of the woods,

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seeing you play piano.

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Seeing you hold your child in
your tender devastating hands.

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And of course, the
children, too, little

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poems they could
sing or dance to.

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This is our jumping game.

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This is our singing game,
our holding each other.

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Even the presidents
with all their death,

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and the congressmen
and judges, I'd

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give them something they would
hold awed to their chests

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as their proudest life thing.

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Somebody walking along a
road where there's no city

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would look up, and see
his poem coming down

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like a feather out of nowhere.

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Or on the assembly line,
new instructions of voice,

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sweet as lunch time.

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Or she would turn over
a stone by the fire,

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and if she couldn't
ring it-- would read it,

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would sing to her and her body.

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Listen everyone, you
have your own poem now.

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It's yours as much
as your heart,

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as much as your own life is.

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You can do things to it.

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Iron it, dress it
in doll clothes.

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Oh men, oh people.

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Please stop how it's
happening now, please.

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I'm working as fast as I can.

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I can't stop to use periods.

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Sometimes I draw straight
lines on the page,

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because the words are too slow.

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I can only do one at a time.

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Don't die first, don't give
up and start crying or hating

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each other.

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They're coming, I'm hurrying.

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Be patient.

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There's still time, isn't there?

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Isn't there?"

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