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I was so anxious
about this reading

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that I forgot all my
poems in Flagstaff.

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But courtesy of the fax machine,
I retrieved a few of them.

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And Alison got the rest
from her magazines.

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Now I know what
they're good for.

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"At the

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Cabaret Now."

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"The Americans are lonely,
they don't know what happened.

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They're still up and there's
all this time yet to kill.

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The musicians are still
being paid so they keep on.

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The sax pants up the ladder, up.

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They want to be happy.

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They want to just let the notes
come on the mortal wounds.

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It's all been paid
for, so what the hell?

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Each breath going up, up.

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Them thinking, of
course, will he make it?

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How far can he go?

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Skill, the prince
of the kingdom,

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there at his table now.

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Is there some other master?

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Friend, also there.

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At a back table, a regular,
one we can't make out,

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but whom the headwaiter knows.

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The one who never applauds so
that it's not about the ending

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you see or where
to go from here.

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It's about the breath and how it
reaches the trumpeter's hands.

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How the hands come so close
to touching the breath

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and how the gold thing
gleaming is there in between.

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The only avenue, the long way--

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captivity.

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Like this thing now slow,
extending the metaphor

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to make a place pledge
allegiance by which is meant.

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See, hear, what a
variety tonight.

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What a good crowd.

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Some of them saying, yes.

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Some others, no.

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Don't they sound good together?

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And all around this
space, and seed spores,

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and the green continuance.

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And all along, the
musicians still getting

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paid, so let them.

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And then around
that, the motionless.

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Don't think about it,
though, because you can't.

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And then the mother who
stayed at home, of course,

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because her body.

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Farewell, farewell.

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This is the story of a
small strict obedience.

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Human blood and how it
rivered into all its bloods.

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Small stream really in the
midst of the other ones.

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In it, children
laughing and laughing,

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which is the sound of ripening,
which the musicians can't play.

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But that is another tale.

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Someone invited them in,
humanity, and they came in.

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They said they knew
and then they knew.

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They made this
bank called justice

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and then this other
one called not.

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They swam in the river,
although sometimes it was notes.

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And some notes
are true even now.

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Yes, they knew each other.

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Then a winter came,
which was a curtain.

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And then spring, which
was when they realized

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it was a curtain, which leads
us to this, the showstopper,

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summer, the Americans.

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I wish I could tell you
the story so and so holding

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his glass up, the
table around him

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jittery, and how then
she came along gliding

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between the tables,
whispering, it

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exists, enough to drive
them all mad, of course,

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whispering sharp as
salt, whispering straw

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on fire looking at you.

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And the one in the
back, no one knows

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starting up the applause alone.

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A flat sound like flesh beating
flesh, but only like it.

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Tell me why did we live, Lord?

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Blood in a wind, why
were we meant to live?"

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[APPLAUSE]

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