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I'm really no good
at love poems.

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I don't know how to do that.

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Perhaps because when I'm feeling
love, I'm just enjoying it

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and I don't feel the
need to write it down.

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It's when I'm
feeling other things

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that I feel like I retreating
from the experience

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and processing.

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But joy-- joy I
just want to live.

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So this is a love poem to
the 20th century, which

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I miss in some ways
although I realize

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that nostalgia is misguided.

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20th century.

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I must have missed the last
train out of this great city.

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I'm scrolling the
radio through, sshh.

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The street lamps fill
with light right on time

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but no one is pouring it in.

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20th century, you're gone.

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You're tucked into
a sleeping car

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rolling to God knows where
and I'm lonely for you.

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I know it's naive but your
horrors were far away.

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And I thought I
could stand them.

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20th century, we had a good
life more or less, didn't we?

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You made me.

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You wove the long
braid down my back.

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You kissed me in the snowy
street with everyone watching.

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You opened your mouth a
little and it scared me.

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20th century, it's me.

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It's me.

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You said that to me once as
if I'd forgotten your face.

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You strung me out until
trees seem to breathe,

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expanding and contracting.

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You played American Girl
and turned it up loud.

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You said I was untouchable.

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Do you remember the
nights of Alum Creek,

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the windows painting yellow
Rothkos on the water?

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Are they still there or
did you take them with you?

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Say something.

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I'm here waiting,
scrolling the radio.

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On every frequency,
someone hushes me.

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Is that you?

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20th century, are you there?

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I thought you were
a simpler time.

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I thought we'd live
on a mountain together

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drinking melted snow, carving
hawk totems from downed pines.

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We'd never come back.

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20th century, I was in so deep.

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I couldn't see an end to you.

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