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In this one, there's
some lines in italics.

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And that's because
they're quotations.

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It's actually the
best lines of poem.

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And they were spoken by your
own homegrown Steve Orlen.

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So to do italics, I'll have to
hold up a finger or something.

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Then you know that
Steve speaking.

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From Houston, he's
phoning it in, right?

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It's a poem called "Practice."

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"To weep unbidden, to wake
at night in order to weep,

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to wait for the whisker
on the face of the clock,

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to twitch again, moving
the dumb day forward.

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Is this merely practice?

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Some believe in
heaven, some in rest.

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We'll float, you said.

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Afterward, we'll float
between two worlds.

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Five bronze beetles,
stacked like spoons in one

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peony blossom, drugged by lust.

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If I came back as a
bird, I'd remember that.

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Until everyone we love is
safe is what you said."

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