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This is from a longer sequence
called "The Million Plus--

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A Meditation on Face."

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"Every second a face.

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The 60 in the minute.

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The 3,600 in an hour.

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The two and 1/2 billion
in my projected life.

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Each one, a face, the
apparition of these faces.

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The ones born every
eight seconds.

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The ones that die every 12.

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The 'we' living, streaming
between, each a face.

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And I look at hers, my
daughter's, held in my hands

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and how, when sleeping
beside me, she'd take my hand

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and put it on her face.

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And she is that face, the face
that adds them all together.

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And she is what the human race,
human face, stands for in me.

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A drop, a clot and its
infinitesimal divisions,

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seconds and faces, the human
time here on Earth past

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and future--

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defaced, unfaced,
redeemable-- held my hands

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asking, what we'll do next
together this afternoon?

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As if that's guaranteed, as if
I can take it on its own face,

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as if I can any longer bear
so much of this world reality,

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so much of its face."

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