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This is another poem,
another kind of mood.

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I was watching
television one day

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and they were talking about
women and as often happens,

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when you start
talking about women

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somewhere in the
conversation they

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begin to talk about witches.

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And one of the things
that was said then

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was that you can tell a witch
because she has 12 fingers.

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Well I was born with
12 fingers, my mother

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was born with 12 fingers
and my oldest daughter

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was born with 12 fingers.

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So I had to write
a poem about that.

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This is kind of a
mood poem I think.

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I was born with 12 fingers
like my mother and my daughter,

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each of us born wearing
strange black gloves,

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extra baby fingers hanging
over the sides of our cribs

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and dipping into the milk.

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Somebody was afraid we
would learn to cast spells

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and our wonders were cut off
but they didn't understand

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the powerful memory of ghosts.

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Now we take what we want
with invisible fingers

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and we connect my dead mother,
my live daughter and me

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through our terrible,
shadowy, hands.

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Thank you.