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OK.

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Now I'm going to
read some poems.

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And I think since some
people from Chax Press

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brought this hand done lovely
printing of a few of my poems

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that they originally
made in 1998 that I'm

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going to read a
couple from this,

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and it's called Writing
The Plot About Sets.

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So "Writing."

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"The clerk half skips away in
his jaunty officious hurry.

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Oh, he's telling me a joke
about our common inability

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to occupy two planes.

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What he can't know is
that I hate body language.

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My life had stood a little
speech, a clipped coupon.

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Hell is unredeemed experience.

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If I were dying
in a hospital bed

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would I get pencil and paper
to jot down passing thoughts?

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Not likely.

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I myself was always
a forwarding address.

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But here's the joke.

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Syntactic space predates
and dominates these words.

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We must take reasoning
tests before passing

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through a cutout, arabesque
in the Islamic facade

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beyond which small boats wait
to carry us to the icebergs.

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We hunker down
with short pencils

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in front of the ticket booth."

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