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OK, thank you again.

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I'm just going to
do one last poem.

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It's called, "I Told the Water."

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"I Told the Water."

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"I told the water,
you're right, the dead

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are broken sidewalks
we try to avoid.

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Told it, the map of you folds
into corners small enough

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to swallow.

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I told the water, you only
exist because of thirst,

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beside your glistening membrane
I lie face down in dirt.

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The first time my father
threw me into you,

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I was hieroglyph-- a wet
braid caught in your throat.

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I knew then how war
was possible-- the urge

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to defy gravity,
to disarm another.

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I knew then I would
live to be your mirror,

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you graveyard of windows,
you black eyed barnacle.

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I told the water, last night
I walked out onto the ice

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wearing only skin, because
you didn't tell me not to."

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Thanks, y'all.