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Now I suspect--

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I don't know this
for a fact, but I

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suspect that in Arizona, there
are not a great deal of ticks.

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Am I right?

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You're wrong.

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I'm wrong?

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You have ticks here?

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OK.

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Then you know what I'm
talking about in this one.

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This is the bane of the
northeast at this moment.

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And thinking about
ticks, you just can't--

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what are they for?

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Why?

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Given that we live in a universe
that seems to be intelligent,

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what?

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What do we have
those things for?

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So this poem gets into
the thinking about that,

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and it refers to the theological
notion of Manichaeanism,

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which is the idea that the world
is divided equally into forces

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of good and evil,
dark and light,

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and that the outcome of that
struggle is not yet known.

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This was declared a heresy
by the church in 400 AD,

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but you should use your
own judgment about this.

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Deep Lane.

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Into Eden came
the ticks, princes

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of this world, heat-seeking,
tiny, multitudinous.

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Lord, why have you given them
a heart, a nervous system,

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a lit microchip of
a-- brain, is it?--

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if not to invite Manichaeanism?

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Hard to believe the force
that shaped the mild tortoise

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traversing the
undergrowth with smaller

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steps, the
sway-necked lily, hard

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to countenance that same
mind dotting paradise

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with pinhead demons
wanting nothing

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but to gorge, to suck beyond the
dreams of their hell brothers

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the mosquitoes, implacable
without boundary,

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pure appetite.

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I wouldn't know
anything about that.

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