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Another way to make
sure that the suitor is

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the penultimate suitor
and not the ultimate one

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is to pick the wrong person.

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And so a number of poems here
are about that phenomenon,

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in one the writer is in
love with the teacher.

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And the epigraph
of that poem is--

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one of the epigraphs is the
moment you meet a teacher,

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you should leave the teacher
and you should be independent.

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And now, I've had to
reverse that and make it

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the moment you meet a student.

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You should leave the student
and you should be independent.

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So this are some of
my the jolly sonnets

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or what's the word
not jolly, but these

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are syllabic sonnets
in a sequence that

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has a little narrative arc.

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There are eight of them.

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But one of them--

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the sixth one is only
the concluding couplet,

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so that's a time saver.

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And this takes a while
to read, so you'll

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be able to hear little
pieces of the story.

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But if nothing
else, you can just

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watch for these liminal
places like windows and dunes.

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This is a seaside poem.

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"Sequence as Opposed to Series."

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"This chapel before
electricity knows

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beauty of darkness in this image
because its photographer knows

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beauty of black next to
dim castings of glass when

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the sky stops at evening
and the chapel is darkening,

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candleless, lanternless.

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The wildness of
the heart seeking

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outlet increases in the
dark, and the presence of God

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only makes it wilder, frantic
to gush at last just kissing

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to orgasm like William, Henry,
Fox, Talbot, you buy paper

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and where he took
photographs, you write poems.

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I have seen you in your top hat.

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I have seen your mouth
wide, sensual, tight."