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Now I'm going to read a little
bit from this book, which

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I vaguely think of as a
novel, in the form of poetry,

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in the form of a play.

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And it's kind of the
aftermath of catastrophe.

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And I'm starting
somewhere in the middle,

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and I'll end up
somewhere near the end.

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Plot, a letter, lengthened
weight, exchange,

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handed over all personals,
letter and person.

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A secret card, sheets,
illness, sleep,

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approaching the tenuous
land with a breath of fresh.

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Sleep its length through.

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A woman turns kind.

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Orders act with temporary
gentle with gentle

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tenuous directed toward
the familiar foreign.

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Tenuous, yet owned,
unapologetically.

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Tenuous, yet distant
from actual source.

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Tenuous, lovely to grant
glance from a distance.

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Tenuous, lovely, beaming
away, or rolling past.

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Tenuous, on its own terms.

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Tenuous on its own
turfed country.

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Tenuous, because an
acceptingly and free

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to be on its own
tenuous lovely ground.

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Tenuous grounding itself
instantly, solidly,

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as a matter of factual
discourse or resolution.

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Tenuous and over, or over it,
or over itself as an acceptance,

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as an acknowledgment.

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Tenuous, and even perhaps,
fake, or unreasonable,

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yet coming into its
tenuously owned term.

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Tenuous, its turn and turning.

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Tenuous, because every
character affected.

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Tenuous, entertaining
towards, tenuous,

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as light would
have its way with,

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tenuous, you might
dare say a place.

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Tenuous, or a name, tenuous,
or an act of nebulous,

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yet sincere.

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Light, which may
need to take place

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in the form of connection,
which may need to take place

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in the form of touch, which
may need to take place

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in the form of skin, which
may need to take place

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in the form of someone
shipped in from elsewhere,

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which may need to take
place on the horizontal,

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which may need to
take everyone back

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to the beginning
of the story, which

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may need to take more time,
or more story, or more

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places than this.

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Which may need to
take place in the form

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of several or multiple people
getting together and conspiring

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as to light, or no light,
and what kind of light,

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and how much intensity is
ours for the controlling?

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And how much light is
ours for the keeping

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or having or holding,
touching, all the whiling,

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doling out, and
tending the keep.

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Last heap of light tripping
availability from this and that

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and this and that,
end of the continuum

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of this particular
human conviction.

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And yes, the
problem with it all,

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let us perhaps toss out
that convicted light

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and see what happens.

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Many, many years ago,
a Spanish painter

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wrote some poems that
manage to keep, get

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kept, dug up, dredged up
in a bar on a little street

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teeming with flies.

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And so this is really happening.

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Architecture of a party.

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Flamenco trilling loud
rages, this wall, that wall,

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with this such proximity, bustle
of poetry, linger of poetry,

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or its turn generation.

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A civilized crowd enter
balcony cathedrals everywhere.

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Everywhere, angles in the
architect's eye, pointing

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upwards, asking what
the fact would do.

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Tripped to the first stool.

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Trip on it again.

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An interruption of water--

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directions, buy no more fish.

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Buy fish with its water.

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Watch them die.

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Be culturally sensitive.

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Toilets are for shit.

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Bury them in the plants.

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Collect tadpoles in
a ruinous garden.

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Watch them get eaten.

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Be naturally sensitive.

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Death of a fellow
character, all characters

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are avoided by her
nearness, her dearness.

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Directions stay.

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Make displacement permanent.

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Stay.

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Make light permanent,
and lovingly,

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at any reliable angle.

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Stay or put, stay or
wait, stay or ride.

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It having had--
having had this--

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having been given--
having been complected--

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having been lovely--

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having been loving-- having
been loved-- having been I want.

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And, all of the below.

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Below, memory wins out.

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And everything, such as,
time, directions, characters,

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moving characters,
interchangeable characters,

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intervening characters,
intersecting characters,

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interloping characters,
interested characters,

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invested characters,
inviting characters,

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all go out for a drink, for a
fuck, all go out of this story.

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Ending, poetry, game,
play, all go out of this.

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All going everywhere.

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All going somewhere, asking
the bartender for another place

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to go.

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Asking the bar for
another line of music.

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All asking to be kindred, asking
to be a kinder voice, a better

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extrication, exit strategy.

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All voices on the phone,
remainders of voice.

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Some remains of surgery, remains
of sex, remains of believing,

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of idiocy, of trusting all
of what was never spoken--

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of what was always meant--

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still meant, still
carrying meaning.

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All intentions everlasting.

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All intentional goings
away, all travel

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for the sake of
others, remainders

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of movement, displacement,
transport, geography of risk.

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Some internal
topography, measurement

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of time for an enormous time
or an unusual time breaking

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anywhere.

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