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This one is called
"From Palookaville."

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It has a quotation
from the movie Laura.

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It is an epigraph, "death
cancels all engagements."

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A remark made by Clifton
Webb in the movie.

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"The midgets stand
on giants who stand

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on midgets in Palookaville.

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That day of storm
notwithstanding

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and it still takes one on
out to the farther reaches

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where boys play and maids bay
at the moon in my Palookaville,

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where the stench of farts
drenches outside irony

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with the dust of snow
where all is served up

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right to blonde kids in history
books on the Gothic outskirts,

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where everything gets unraveled
just right where you can see

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a coincidence coming
from miles down

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the valley along
the trestle when

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the snow, the femurs, the
cries demure and act unwise.

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At a time when centers
shatter in strict unison,

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when doubt is in the call
of the fox and the sunsets

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are like weddings.

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I came here of my own
accord from Jakarta.

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I'm as old as you are
and dare to say so.

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But the following liaison
spat out like miles of thread

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are the lining of
time's one easy lesson,

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the shocks deep and narrow
like crevasses dog teams

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fly over over and around,
aiming no way to please.

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And it does in the arrested
quickness of the visit, task.

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But even life is the
least bit pejorative.

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But not the costumes,
the calendar,

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the trivia, the painted
trappings to come undone

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and your embrace
and that's the word.

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You were sent for
and that is all.

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No word on why some
became the anvil,

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and from here all it runs
is dust or consommé.

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There was fear smeared
again on the walk.

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And for two consecutive
days we got out on it.

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It's pretty safe so far.

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On the fifth day a bank fails.

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There are great falls and
iodine in the little house.

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It smells more like
an accord this time.

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And then there were birds
you know too soft this time

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for much of an answer.

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And they came were there
under steel arcades.

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The night brings
its business along,

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stalls as though a feint
saved the day one other time.

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And now it's horses
all around for anybody

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that thinks they've got a
contusion or a monopoly.

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Surely it was warm
faces all around.

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The accents are distant as
bells in that other hometown.

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The stories often
gory, tell why please

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the accents in your
own personal vignette

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came up without a number and
no one explained the cause.

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A dim musical and
some small room

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folded under netting as
though the crows stood by

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to watch under the felt cushion
something impolite zoomed.

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It was suggested that we
all carry away our traces

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that we dispose of them
thoughtfully so as not

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to leave any bones
of an argument

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around for others
mauling traces in bushes.

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Black ones riding
with white snow,

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a pure defined drop of atheism.

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And it arches out too wide
to near the circumference

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of the pier too
much to say for what

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an old man did on a recent day.

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And what if it comes round on
a recent day and what if we

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all did.

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And who shoved the pace
of the thermometer.

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On an outing who
shamed the toaster.

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Who is to say."

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