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This is a poem called At
Your Age, I Wore A Darkness.

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And it's a running title so
that the title goes right

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into the first line.

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At your age, I wore a darkness
several sizes too big.

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It hung on me like
a mother's dress.

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Even now as we speak, I
am stitching a darkness

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you'll need to unravel.

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Unraveling another,
you'll need to re-stitch.

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What can I give you
that you can keep?

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Once you asked,
does the sky stop?

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It doesn't stop.

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It just stops being one thing
and starts being another.

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Sometimes, we hold
hands and tip our heads

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way back so the blue fills
our whole field of vision

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so we feel like we're in it.

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We don't stop.

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We just stop being what we
are and start being what?

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Where?

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What can I give
you to carry there?

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These shadows of leaves?

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The lace and solace?

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This soft hand-me-down darkness?

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What can I give you
that will be of use

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in your next life, the one
you will live without me.

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