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"The Sky."

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Whatever I care for,
someone else loves it more,

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deserves it more, the dough
with their whole mouth crushing

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the flax, or the seer who
adores my future, whereas I

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could take it or leave it.

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I know I'll disappear.

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It won't be glamorous.

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It won't be like when
the Mona Lisa, was stolen

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and the tourists all lined
up to pay their respects

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at the empty spot on
the wall of the Louvre.

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I've never actually
even seen the sky.

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I've only ever seen
effluents, seen wattage.

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The only night I
remember is the dinner

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of neighbors at which a
man I never had met before

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said, "I don't fear dying.

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Look at the past.

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People have been dying forever."

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And then he stopped
and shook his head.

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"I drank too much," he said.

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"I was almost saying that
people have been dying forever,

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and all of them survived.

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But of course."

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He made a hard laugh.

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"God, of course they
didn't survive."

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So I'm going to turn now to
some poems from a new project

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that I have been working on.

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And it's called
"Man at His Bath."

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And I will start with the
first poem, which is also

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called "Man at His Bath."

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Has anyone seen the
painting "Man at His Bath?"

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Oh, you must.

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