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This is the last
of this sequence.

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Before about the beginning
of the 19th century,

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English writers had
the option of playing

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with spelling in order
to emphasize something.

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Spelling hadn't been
standardized yet,

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so the poet John Milton
took great advantage

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of that in Paradise Lost and
that gets mentioned in here.

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There's also a
reference to a really--

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a brand of sneakers that was
really fashionable for like 20

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minutes.

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They were called Osiris
after the Egyptian God,

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and they had the word Osiris
printed on the tongue.

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So, yeah.

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Osiris, you will
remember, was torn apart

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by the banks of the
Nile, and his wife Isis

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had to gather the parts
to reconstruct him.

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"Underworld."

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The new and towering
boy in out-patient

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folds the lavish scaffold of
himself into a smallish chair.

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[BEEPING]

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I've said something alarming.

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It must have been outpatient.

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Try it again.

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"Underworld."

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The new and towering
boy in outpatient

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folds the lavish scaffold of
himself into a smallish chair

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as though it were
an ongoing task

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to account for all
his parts, and he

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takes us in, nods his smudge
of beard, and smiles privately.

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We've confirmed
his expectations.

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No malice or irony in it,
simply a kind of sweetness.

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He's failed to kill
himself last weekend

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and has landed intact,
marveling, interested.

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His legs-- I want to spell long
with two n's as Milton spelled

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dim with a double m to
intensify the gloom of hell--

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careening into one another
then pushing his knees forward

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into the speaking circle
where we weigh 90 minutes

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the tonnage of our shame.

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The damage yours only
until exactly spoken.

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Whose pain's not a common one?

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And then the new man, all of
22, stretches his legs entirely

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forward and catches my
breath with the name printed

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across the tongues of his
shoes, Osiris, in bold letters,

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maybe a brand too newly stylish
for me to have registered.

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But the unlaced word prays
for us to just the right God,

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him torn to pieces, each
bit of his ruined picked up,

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each nearly unrecognizable,
attended, carried.

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And is it loved or willed back
into place, the man and boy's

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body radially restored?

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Or that's the hope
he's poking out

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at us with his
excellent shoes while we

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go on talking until lunch time.

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