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And being recently married, one
should really read that one.

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Some of the poems
have engines in them

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and they're just like
secret little diagrams

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that I use to propel the poem
slightly away from narrative.

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So I won't really explain
them, but this one

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has an engine,
which is the @ sign.

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"Sad Little Breathing
Machine, Engine @"

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"Under its glass lid,
the square of cheese

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is like any other element
of the imagination, cough

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in the tugboat, muff summering
somewhere in mothballs.

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Have a humbug, the world is
slow to dissolve and leave us.

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Is it your hermeneut's helmet
not letting me filter through?

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The submarine sinks with a
purpose, scientist inside,

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engineering a shell.

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And meanwhile, I am not well.

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Don't know how to go
on Oprah without you.

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On TV, a documentary about bees.

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Yet another box in a box, the
present is in there somewhere."

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