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I'm learning to
abandon the world.

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I am learning to abandon the
world before it can abandon me.

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Already I have given
up the moon and snow,

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closing my shades against
the claims of white.

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And the world has taken
my father, my friend.

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I have given up
melodic lines of hills,

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moving to a flat
tuneless landscape.

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And every night I
give my body up limb

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by limb, working upwards
across bone towards the heart.

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But morning comes
with small reprieves

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of coffee and birdsong.

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A tree outside the window, which
was simply shadow moments ago,

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takes back its branches
twig by leafy twig.

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And as I take my
body back, the sun

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lays its warm muzzle on my
lap as if to make amends.

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