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This poem is called
access, and it's

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one of my favorite
poems in this book.

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And I think it's a kind of
transition poem to a lot

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of the work that I'm doing now.

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I mean, it has a
similar movement.

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It's really talking about a very
quick meeting with the person

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that I never saw
again in my life.

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And that kind of
exchange of information

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that can go on sometimes
when you happen

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to meet with another person
at just the right time in both

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your lives.

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Access, the man you were the
beginning of swilling the rain.

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Harry, you had time to focus
like the knocker on a door

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about to be opened.

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I'm thinking how an
afternoon changes,

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walking towards the door
without knowing where it is.

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How your jaw grinds imitating
an effort, you cannot speak of.

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Women need men to talk to.

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Did you know this when
we passed in the dark

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and could see each
other's faces?

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Harry, there is someone
breathing heavily

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over the microphone.

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Our beer has foam on it.

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You're Giving day is here
and turning on its heel.

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Accidents ought to
be a way of life.

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The bar cleared out.

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Did you notice?

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When I passed you my
one word vocabulary.

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I said, access, and
you understood it

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like the beginning of
a private language,

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our faces cut sharply
in profile the way

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an orange is sliced to make a
wheel that travels by scent.

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The door slams.

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It's later now.

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I'm home and pushing you
away with the groceries,

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but there you are,
Harry standing

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on one toe on top of the
Polish bar on 4th Street.

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You have a Cape on and
carry your anxieties

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like a switchboard tangled
with incoming calls,

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don't answer them.

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To take a stance means having
to grow still before moving.

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So you've entered
the walking contest.

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I can hear you weaving
with love from bar to bar.

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You have passed
from the light rain

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into dark, signaling
me by your moving

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jaw from a great distance.

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The Walker takes off his
shoes when he comes to grass.

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It's enough.

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