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And one is relatively long.

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I'm going to read the
last poem in the book

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because I like it a
lot, and I'm reading

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Sport of Kings, which
is also about horses,

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so I'm having this moment where
I'm again obsessed with horses.

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At the end of life, a secret.

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Everything measured.

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A man twists a tuft of your
hair out for no reason, other

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than you are naked before him,
and he is bored with nakedness.

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Moments ago he was
weighing your gallbladder

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and then he was staring
at the empty space

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where your lungs were.

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Even dead, we still
insist you are

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an organ donor, as if
something other than taxes

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outlasts death.

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Your feet are regular feet.

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Two of them.

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And there's no
mark to suggest you

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were an expert mathematician.

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Nothing that says that a
woman loves you when you died.

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From the time your body
was caught up before him,

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to the time your dead body
is being sent to the coffin,

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every pound is accounted
for, except 22 grams.

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The man is a praying man, and
has figured what it means.

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He says this is
the soul, finally,

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after the breath is gone.

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The soul, less than
$4,000 worth of crack.

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22 grams.

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All that moves you
through this world.

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