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This is a little haibun
called "Civilized perhaps".

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"I have decided to OD on
moderation for a while.

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Just yesterday this decision
occupied the forefront

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of my brain in much
the same way passion

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is reputed to perform as
the direct or flip side

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of infection.

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Otherwise, this rinse
of thin green tea

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would not be my chosen.

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I have bracketed my lust to make
a large deposit to my moderato

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account.

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Gems not worth enough
comprise what one selects.

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For the moment I am wide awake
as springtime birds lusting

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judiciously within the mythic
tenor of appropriating minds

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for reproduction.

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Or is this just the longing?

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Twins remediate our patchy
single life with silver quest

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until a beauty has been
sleeping in this room.

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All my limbs today
are limber on account

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of having little work of the
digestive system to perform.

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My heart lives in a fine
community of offerings.

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And when I make my bed,
it is with happiness

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that having dreamed acceptance
dreams lasting a whole day's

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drive to somewhere that has
simulated closeness to whatever

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I have been and will become.

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Civilized perhaps
and on the very

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heels of having breaths sung
into me by every person I

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have loathed.

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Conception, hastening the
birth of the unknown."

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