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And now I want to read
some of the new poems

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that I've written
since I've been here.

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And this continues with
the same character.

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So this is from section 5.

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This is called "An Argument."

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Given the if.

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The open palm.

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A question interposing
in the air.

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Given a voice that answers
from the corner of the room,

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a kitchen table where
they sit and speak.

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A hole gapes in the interstice.

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Blue air through the
curtain slab of sunlight

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sliding along the windowsill
between what they have said,

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and what they mean.

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Call this an argument.

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As one might say negotiate and
the other might hear choose.

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She might place a
cup on the table

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or take it from the
table to the sink.

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She thinks it is a cup,
but one might call it

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tea cup, coffee cup, or mug.

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As the rustling outside might
be the willow's branches

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or the passage of a
person through the street.

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She thinks when she says sky,
the idea of a sky is evident.

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Like the theory of a roof that
says, beneath a given roof

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there is a room, a
kitchen with a table,

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two people with
their separate names,

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their breakfast dishes
waiting in the sink.

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Rain, rain, rain, rain.

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She thinks if
there is rain, it's

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falling must denote the
seconds as they pass.

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That the ticking of the
rain is equal to the moments

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that accrue.

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If the gutter fills
with water it is a sign

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that hours have gone by.

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So time emits.

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As the statement, rain is
wet, turns in on itself.

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But perhaps no time has
passed and there is simply

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this, a blotter and
a desk, her window

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open to the sound of rain.

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She thinks when there was rain,
that day was somehow green.

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She thinks when the forest was
green we knew it had been damp.

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Either she must fill the
time or memory emits the way

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that memories emit.

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She thinks there must have been
some days both green and gray,

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days of standing water, and
days the rain streamed down

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along the eve.

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She thinks how can one
bear a scene, but not

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its recollection?

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Say there is neither time,
nor the fact of memory.

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Or time, but not its
slippage through the scene.

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Or say all times are present,
here and now at once.

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Or say the rain is dry and
therefore, time cannot emit.

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Or say the falling rain
emits a timeless time.

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She says I am awake to mean
this wilderness of thought,

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to name the voice that tells
her that argument was true.

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