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Another short poem.

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About two more and
I'll be through.

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This one is called, "Envy
of Other People's Poems."

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"In one version of the legend,
the sirens couldn't sing.

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It was only a sailor's
story that they could.

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So Odysseus lashed to the
mast was heralded by a music

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that he didn't hear.

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Plungings of sea.

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Scuds of sea wind.

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The offshore hunger
of the birds.

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And the mute women gathering
kelp for garden mulch,

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seeing him strained
against the cordage,

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seeing the awful
longing in his eyes,

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were changed forever on
their rocky waste of islands

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by their imagination
of his imagination

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of the song they didn't sing."

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