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What's really
strange about poetry

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is that it's using the
tools of conversation

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for not conversation.

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And you have to keep
reminding people that.

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And so up front, and these poems
are concerned with visual art.

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But even so, I had to say,
I'm singing, and I'm lying,

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and I'm going to
have talking animals,

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and so no, this isn't true.

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And there's a reason
it isn't true.

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It's because there's the world,
and there's the painting,

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there's the light, and
there's how the paint moves.

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And so I decided I would say up
front, first line, first pump,

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you could be faithful to
the world, or to the paint.

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I'm being faithful to the paint.

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You can put the book down now
if you want, but I told you,

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I told you what I'm doing.

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"The way the light reflects."

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The paint doesn't move the
way the light reflects.

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So what's there
to be faithful to?

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I am faithful to you, darling.

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I say it to the paint.

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The bird floats in the
unfinished sky with nothing

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to hold it.

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The man stands.

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The day shines.

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His insides and his
outsides kept apart

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with an imaginary line.

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Thick and rude and imaginary,
because there is no separation.

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Fallacy of the local
body, paint on paint.

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I have my body,
and you have yours.

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Believe it if you can.

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Negative space is silly.

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When you bang on
the wall you have

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to remember you're on
both sides of it already.

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But go ahead, yell at yourself.

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Some people don't
understand anything.

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They see the man
but not the light,

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they see the field
but not the varnish.

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There is no light in the paint.

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So how can you argue with them?

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They are probably right anyway.

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I paint in his face, and
I paint it out again.

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There's a question
I am afraid to ask.

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To supply the world with what?

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