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I had three poems
in the book read,

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because I mostly wanted
to read you new poems.

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But so I'm thinking
about this poem

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right now, because it
gives me a lot of grief.

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And I have a very weird
relationship with this poem,

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so I'm going to
own it and read it.

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You have to re-love
your poems, I think.

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You have to decide that
you love them again.

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Love is like an act, right?

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So you have to act on that.

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I'm going to love
this poem again.

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"Katherine with the lazy eye.

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Short.

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And not a good poet."

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This morning, I
heard you were found

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in your McDonald's uniform.

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I heard it while I was visiting
a lake town, where empty woodsy

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highways turn into
waterside drives.

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I'd forgotten my toothbrush
and was brushing my teeth

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with one finger.

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A friend who didn't know you
said he'd heard it like this.

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"You know Katherine.

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Short.

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With the lazy eye.

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Poet.

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Not a very good one.

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Yeah, well, she died."

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The blue on that
lake isn't so frank.

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It fogs off into the
horizon like Styrofoam.

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The picnic table is
full of white people.

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I asked them where
the coffee is.

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They say at Meijer.

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I wonder if you thought
about getting out of Detroit.

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When you read at the open mike,
you'd point across the street

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at McDonald's and tell
us to come see you.

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Katherine with the lazy eye,
short, and not a good poet.

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I guess I almost cried.

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I don't know why, because
I didn't like you.

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This is the first time
I remembered your name.

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I didn't like how you
followed around a married man,

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that your poems sucked,
and that I figured they

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were all about the married man.

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But sometimes you reminded
me of myself, boy crazy.

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That sometimes I
think people just

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don't tell me that I'm
kind of, well, slow.

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Katherine with the lazy eye,
short, and not a good poet.

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I didn't like that your lazy
eye was always looking at me,

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that you called me by my name.

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I didn't like you since
the first time I saw you

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at McDonald's.

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You had a mop, and you were
letting some homeless dude

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flirt with you.

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I wondered then if you thought
that was the best you could do.

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I wondered then if it was.

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Katherine with the lazy eye,
short, and not a good poet.

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You were too silly to wind up
dead in an abandoned building.

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I didn't like you because what
was I supposed to tell you?

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What?

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Don't let them look at
you like that, Katherine.

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Don't let them get you alone.

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Katherine with a lazy eye,
short, and not a good poet.

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What was I supposed
to say to you?

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You don't get to laugh
like that, like nothing's

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going to get you.

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Not everyone will
forgive the slow girl.

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Katherine with the fucked up
eye, short, poetry sucked,

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must have knew better.

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I avoided you in the hallway.

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I avoided you in lunch line.

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I avoided you at the lake.

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I avoided you.

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My lazy eye.

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Katherine with one hideous eye.

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Shit.

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Poetry for boys again.

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You should have been immune.

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You were supposed
to be a cartoon.

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Your body was supposed to be as
twisted as it was going to get.

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Short, and not a good poet.

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Katherine with no eye
no more, I avoided you,

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hated it when you said my name.

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I really want to leave Detroit.

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Katherine with the lazy, short,
not a good poet, and shit.

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Somewhere someone has already
asked what was she like,

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and a woman has brought out her
wallet and said, "This is her.

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This is my beautiful baby."

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