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I want to read
another insect poem.

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You know, the insects keep
occurring in these poems.

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Nobody speaks well of insects.

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And somebody said to me once not
long ago, do you like insects?

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And I thought about
it, I thought,

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one of the great
things about insects

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is that it's totally irrelevant
whether you like them or not.

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This one's called
"After the Alphabet".

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"I'm trying to decipher
the language of insects.

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They are the tongues
of the future.

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Their vocabularies
describe buildings as food.

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They can depict dark water
and the veins of trees.

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They can convey what
they do not know,

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and what is known at a
distance, and what nobody knows.

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They have terms for making
music with the legs.

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They can recount changing
in a sleep-like death.

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They can sing with wings.

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The speakers are
their own meaning

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in a grammar without horizons.

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They are wholly articulate.

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They are never important.

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They are everything."

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