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So I have I think three more
poems to share with you all.

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And then I will flee.

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Again, let me explain again.

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Sometimes it's just
a spider crawling up

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my leg and not a
hand or the thin edge

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of a flame that wakes me.

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Or sometimes it's my mother,
on the other side of the city

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talking loudly on the phone.

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I think my boy is sick, and
I want to be better at lying,

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or at least for heaven's
sake, feel a blade of hair

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graze my arm without the
world around me turning

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into an empty classroom,
an endless row of desks,

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a woman swaying at the
end, her face pressed

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against the chalkboard.

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But let me start the story over.

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For someone once told me
that touch is too soft

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a word to describe what happened
to me, and maybe they're right.

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So maybe it started earlier.

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The woman spending
her whole life

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without hands, an egg at
the end of each wrist,

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so let's say that's true.

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Let's say the egg hatched
and found the closest thing

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to call home, and here
I am today, years later,

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the host of touch.

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A boy who lets the spider
crawl on to his face

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before smacking it dead.