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I'm going to read three more
because I have a long poem

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thing going on.

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"One contour in the
narrative break.

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Adam, eyebright, his teeth
puffed from menthol's cold,

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his preferred cigarette.

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I remember this
textbook posture,

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how to read Celan in
a time of warfare.

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The dew from his lips
an open humidity,

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still, we remain traditional.

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Nothing like park patrollers,
men and women of consequence,

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watching us.

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Nothing like two four time,
the slowest musical duration

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for this listener.

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Nothing like remonstrance
of having the final kiss.

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I play a passage
in my fake book.

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Whose name did it
transcribe before mine?

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The lines depict a ritual.

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Our necks no longer
undermine our voices."

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