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This one is called
"Notes from the Air."

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"A yak is a prehistoric
cabbage, of that at least we

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may be sure.

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But tell us sages
of the solarium, why

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is that light still hidden
back there among houseplants

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and rubber sponges?

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For surely, the blessed
moment arrived at midday,

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and now in mid-afternoon,
lamps are lit

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where it is late in the season.

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And as it struggles now in
its ground down into day,

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complaints of voice at edges
of the darkness, look it says.

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It has to be this
way and no other.

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Time that one seizes
and takes along with one

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is running through the
holes like sand from a bag.

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And these sandy moments
accusers are just

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what our enemy
ordered, the surly one

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on his throne of impacted gold.

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No matter if our tale
be interesting or not,

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whether children stop to
listen, and through the rent

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veil of the air, the immortal
whistle is heard and screeches,

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songs not meant
to be listened to,

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it was some stranger's
casual words

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overheard in the
windblown street

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above the roar of the
traffic and then swept

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to the distant orbit
where words hover.

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Alone it says, but you slept.

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And now everything is being
redeemed, even the square

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of barren grass that adjoins
your doorstep too near for you

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to see.

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But others children and others
will when the right time comes.

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Meanwhile we mingle, and
not because we have to,

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because some host or
hostess has suggested it

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beyond the limits of
polite conversation.

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And we, they too, were
conscious of having

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known it, written on the
fly leaf of a book presented

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as a gift at Christmas 1882.

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No more trivia, please.

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But music in all the
spheres leading up

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to where the master
wants to talk to you.

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Place his mouth over yours.

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Withdraw that human fish hook
from the crystalline flesh

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where it was melting.

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Give you back your
clothes, penknife, twine.

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And where should we
go when we leave?

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What tree is bigger
than night that

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surrounds us is full of more
things, fewer paths for the eye

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and fingers of
frost for the mind?

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Fruits halved for our
despairing instruction.

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Winds to suck us up.

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If only the boiler
hadn't exploded,

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one could summon them.

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Icicles out of the rain,
chair is enough for everyone

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to be seated in time for
the lesson to begin."

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