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"We were up late and
everyone had been drinking.

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And someone said, hey, is
that God's head on the boil?

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We didn't know where to
look or what to think.

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It was obviously some sort of
perverse joke or not, right?

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And the conversation
went on for days.

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Sober, drunk, asleep, awake.

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What did it matter?

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Some of us felt the real time
was for something, but what?

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And the questions kept
coming once they started.

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My favorite one being
too strung together.

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What makes art modern, and
what does urgent mean now?

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Where is the greater good?

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That was another
worry bandied about.

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Followed by, where
was the common tint

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which gave a feeling of
empathy for a minute?

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And then grief, because
well, where was it?

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Will you arm, hoard
seeds, go hungry?

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Those terrified me,
because after all,

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who would repair things when
the end is pale or dark?

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Where will you hide out
when capital runs out?

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When water?

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Which will be greater, the
heat or the cold-- wait,

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did God's boiling head
just say something?

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Cry out, 'go to hell'
from a giant lobster pot?

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Tantalizing us with
where to go next?

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Our phosphorescent lamps
to mark escape paths?

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Not that it's not a great
party, but whose place is this?

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Igniting quail in banana
leaves, sons bandaged.

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Who invited us?

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Why are the emerald bleeding
and the ivory weeping?

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Lower the freaking music.

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Does anyone have the time?"

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That was the first
poem of my new book,

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Who is Trixie the Trasher?
and Other Questions.