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We're talking about
marriage at dinner,

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and couplehood, and my
position on such institutions.

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And also film.

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And this poem deals with
both, so here we go.

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"Force of Visibility."

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"Everywhere we went, I went
in pigtails no one could see.

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Ribbon curled by a scissor's
sharp edge, the bumping

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our cars undertook when
hitting those strips

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along the interstate
meant to shake us awake.

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Everywhere we went, horses
bucking their riders

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off holstered pistols,
or two Frenchies

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dancing in black and white
in a torn apart living room

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on the big screen.

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Our polite cow faces lit
softly by new wave cinema

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I will never get into.

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The soft whirr of
continuous strip imagery.

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'What is fascism?'

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A student asked me.

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And can you believe I couldn't
remember the definition?

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'The sonnet,' I said.

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I could have said this.

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Our sanctioned twosome.

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My covert pigtails.

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Driving to the cinema,
you were yelling.

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'This is not yelling,'
you corrected in the car,

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a tiny amphitheater. 'I will
resolve this,' I thought.

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'And through that resolution, I
will be a stronger compatriot.'

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This is fascism.

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Dinner party by dinner
party, waltz by waltz,

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weddings ringed by
admirers, by old couples

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who will rise to touch
each other publicly.

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And enter theater
traffic, you were yelling.

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And beside us briefly, a
sheriff's retrofitted bus,

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full or empty, was
impossible to see."

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