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Let me return to a
series of questions.

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More intimate ones.

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"Swan Hair."

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"Was there a murder nearby?

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Talked about all year.

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Less and less by you.

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As you drove quickly past,
others stopped to gawk.

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Were you in love at the time?

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Was your mother still alive?

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Are you dressed now.

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Therefore in public?

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Are you walking home alone?

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Is it humid?

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Does it occur to you
that while grasses blow

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without anyone observing wind.

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Relationships befall you?

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Do you want to be
aroused by words or does

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that bore you like porn?

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Are you, yourself, hungry?

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Is there a sense that
you're on a floating bed?

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Do you think of
yourself in an apartment

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by the sea, winter, a
few neighbors and fog

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horns, early evening and
the mood already gloomy?

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Can you recall if
anyone helped you?

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Do you compare
yourself to a passerby

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in a loose white
blouse and jeans?

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Do others shut down
nearer your power?

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If I think of you, will
I draw another breath?

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Was there a melanin high season
or a wall when it snowed?

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Didn't the tray weigh
nothing on your body

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when your dearest woke you with
a plate of toast and ginger,

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lingering in the room while
you dressed in tights, a slip,

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and a mustache to be funny?

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Did you laugh?

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Do you forget?

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When you made love and
smelled of sweat and mint,

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did you wake too early?

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Did it matter?

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Did you anticipate your birthday
and the hundreds of people?

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Were those slippers,
tap shoes, heels,

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and sneakers rarely worn,
because you lay around

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in a cloud?

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Did people want you?

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Were you scandalous?

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Were you available?

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Had you money?

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Did you cleave?

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How?

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Were you valiant?

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Were you furtive?

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Masculine?

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Did you suffer?

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Do I know?

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If you cried, was it a moment,
an hour, or much longer?

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Did you never?

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Do I believe you?

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Do you imagine
your everyday life

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as a frog or victim
or swimmer or liar

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or a pair of binoculars
or a winning ticket?

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Is feeling surreal
like swan hair?

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Was that your city?

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Were you tired?

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Was there shock?

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Pleasure?

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Was there water nearby?

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Who cooked all afternoon
who bicycled for wine?

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Was your intelligence obvious?

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Forgiven?

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Did you put a hand in the fire?

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Did you drive a
car into the lake?

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Do you want more of a story
as a gift on a postcard

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to a secret admirer?

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As a guard against the fashion?

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As a volume of trysts in a
pronouncement of your politics?

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As a whim?

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As a monument to
defeat in a moment

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when the vanguard upbraids you?

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For your time on Earth,
did love shape you?

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Is time passing naturally?

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Brutal?

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Does it make you
think bravely of war?

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Of the best of civilization
in makeshift camps?

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Was it a battle of
time versus dream,

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fought over a dug out of sheets?

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Did you account for the
dark plastic on the windows?

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Did you sleep in your dress?

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When did you become old or dead?

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Would you behold what
is tender, and still,

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when you went in for a kiss and
came out a magnifying glass?

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Why go downstairs to read?

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Weren't you listening
to what was said?

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Did the end of
life make you sad,

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so you couldn't write or think?

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Isn't it when the
strings are taught

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you play with complete abandon?

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Does no one hear?"

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