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"October 30-- the
Dow is Closed."

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"My daughter tugs my
pant leg, takes my hand,

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walks me around the house--

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living room,
kitchen, leaf clung.

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We vine down the bedroom hall,
morning glory, blue flower,

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in the midst of drought.

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In the season of
protest parks, I

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come across a photograph of
a cop swinging his baton,

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his badge easy to read.

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The caption includes his name,
address, phone number, email.

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In the comment box, someone's
going to order 20 "nasty-ass

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pizzas" to his house.

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Someone's going to get his
social security number,

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cut his electricity, blow
his fucking head off.

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We are already naked, Steve
Jobs tells us on Facebook,

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and Steve Jobs is dead.

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Things fall away.

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Remember the little bomb
with the error message

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in the face of death?

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It's easy to hate the part that
swings a baton, hard to know

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how far we'll get.

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This early, this late
season, my daughter

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takes her first steps
towards the window,

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with a view to the drought park.

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Red, I want to show her,
because the park is gray green.

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But all I can conjure is a
blood blister on my finger.

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My ladybug, in this mess of
October, leaves don't change--

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they fall.

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Grass grows, paper bag beige.

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Three hours south of us,
people take to the streets

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to meet the rain."

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