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This poem is called
"After Minor Surgery."

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And I read it at
a reading that had

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a question session after it.

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And one of the questions--

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I told them they
could ask me anything.

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But what they wanted to know
is what the minor surgery was

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and that I refused to divulge.

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"After Minor Surgery."

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This is the dress rehearsal when
the body like a constant lover

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flirts for the first
time with faithlessness,

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when the body like a passenger
on a long journey hears

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the conductor call out the
name of the first stop,

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when the body in all its fear
and cunning makes promises

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to me it knows it cannot keep.

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