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Can you take three more?

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If there what?

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What was that?

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If they're less than
10 pages each, right?

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Last sip of water.

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I have to end soon.

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This is the first poem I wrote
in this exchange with Laura.

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It wasn't written to her.

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It was written to a person by
the mysterious initial of A,

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who appears often in my
poems of the last two years.

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It's called The Recognition.

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Pulling myself up
to surface shimmer

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in the tonality of
how you set a mood.

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It's so casual when
we sit with our drinks

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as if we were finally
grown ups. Your story

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told always in context
of Turkish cigarettes.

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So white, smooth, clean.

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As though bravery
didn't enter into it

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is what I can't get used to.

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Want a nail to rip your shirt?

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No, not something mean.

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But the recognition that this
weather in bright blue focus

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is fickle, dangerous lifting
both of us and could change us.

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We share this
malleable fact and air

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when polluted and thick
gray forcing cell after cell

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to murmur closed down.

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When I thought of
seeing you, I was wary,

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felt warned, noticing the
delicate fern near window light

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had dried up from lack of water.

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Suddenly, every leaf backing
off from its original intensity.

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Sharp greens muted
to loss of pigment.

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Old stain on paper.

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I thought this
time, I did not want

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to be the good scotch, the
pink pearl eraser acquiescent

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to your saying all as well.

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All is not well.

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I want to take off my clothes
and lie on cool sheets with you

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and show you my fever.

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I want you to look at me
and say you're burning up.

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