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This poem is-- we talked
about in this class today.

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It's almost called "Gold Leaf."

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Despite what a
reviewer said, which

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is that it's all one
extended sentence,

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it's actually one
extended fragment.

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I hate it when
reviewers don't know

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the difference between a
sentence and a fragment.

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It's like the people who
confuse grammar with syntax.

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No.

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So, yes.

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What can you do?

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Throw the magazine
to the ground.

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"Gold Leaf."

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"To lift without ever asking
what animal exactly it once

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belonged to, the socketed helmet
that what's left of the skull

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equals up to your face.

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To hold it there, mask-like.

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To look through it until looking
through means looking back.

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Back through the skull into the
self that is partly the animal

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you've always wanted to be.

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That, depending,
fear has prevented

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or rescued you from becoming.

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To know utterly what
you'll never be.

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To understand, in doing so,
what you are, and say no to it.

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Not to who you are.

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To say no to despair."

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Seems a good thing these
days to say no to despair.

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Hard, but good to try.