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So a little change of pace.

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This is a newer poem I
want to interrupt poems

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from this book with
because I don't

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think I've ever
read it aloud when

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TC Tolbert was in the room.

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This is a poem
that I wrote for TC

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after a bike ride that we took
about this time last year.

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It's true.

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It's a true poem.

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Poems can be true.

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It's called "Night Now,"
for TC, "Night Now."

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"When things get
bad enough, I know

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this rock, boulder, rather,
artificial, actually,

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west side of a wash along
Aviation east of Swan.

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The concrete shell at
one end is busted open

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and the rebar pried
wide enough for someone

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to enter the rock headlong.

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Inside, if you clear the
bottles, and wadded rags,

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and short stack
cans of Pringles,

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the cocoon sleeps two
comfortably, or one.

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When things get so bad, there's
one place past nowhere else

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to go.

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Looks like a rock with a rib
cage rusting, length of a man

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your stature.

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Get in.

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I know you know.

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The worst is over."

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