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I'll end with a poem
called "First," a new poem.

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First you were body to me.

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My body wasn't mine.

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My body departed in
you and yours in mine.

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First, you were on
your right side naked.

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Your palm and arm pillowing
your cheek loosely,

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fisted the way our sun tore
his path out into this world,

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and slightly curled
like a 19th century

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model, decent like a 20th
century magazine cover.

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And my fingers
dragged your nerves,

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and you shuddered between
unknowing this was wakefulness,

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and this was slumber.

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To seduce you,
reduce you to myself,

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corrode myself at
the anode for you.

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No ecstasy without betrayal.

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No desire created equal.

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And when it was over,
you had been over me.

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The flask had lifted.

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You here and now, you had
me opening to opening.

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Thank you.

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