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This when I was--

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I meant to revise.

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Just cut out a
word and I forgot.

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So we'll see.

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There's a rhyme that
I don't want here,

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but somebody said
it's all right.

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So we'll do it.

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This is really from my
Bible reading period.

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Ezekiel and the wheels with eyes
on them and things like that.

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When I call somebody-- like
I refer to people as wheel.

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Like a circle represents
a free spirit of man,

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like esoterically.

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And actually, when I
say wheel in a ditch,

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I mean like the spirit
of each of us trapped.

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Maybe not the body,
but what is the essence

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of each man trapped somehow.

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"Jericho."

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"The question mark in my
belly stretches kicks me

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and I push back the sheet,
watching you undress.

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You put on the black mask
and lie on your side.

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I open the small
sack of peppermint

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sticks you always
bring and take one out.

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I suck it as you rub
my shoulders, breasts

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and with one hand
around the hollows

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beneath carved by seven
months of pregnancy,

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stopping when your
palm covers my navel.

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You groan, wetting
my hip as I slide

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the peppermint across my lips.

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So I'm just 15, but I've
seen others like you,

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afraid, apologizing because
they need something maybe

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nobody else does.

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You can demand, handing
out the money, the sweets.

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Ashamed to climb your
ladder of trouble, don't be.

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Make it to the top.

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You'll find a ram's horn
there, blow it seven times.

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Yell God damn and watch
the miniature hells

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walking around below you
on two feet all fall down."

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Ladder-- ladder of trouble.

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If you read-- see The
Carrier of Ladders

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by Merwin, which nobody
seems to like but me.

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He's taking a little--

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there's a little quote in
it from a Dahomey song.

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I can't remember it exactly.

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The bearer of the dead says
to the carrier of ladders,

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it is a day of something.

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It is a day of trouble.

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Anyway, that's where I sort
of get ladder of trouble.

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I like that.

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