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And I'm going to
read some things

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from a collection
I'm currently working

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on that's based in ghosts.

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And I've been
thinking a lot about

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and trying to kind of work
with the ideas of grief lately.

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And largely because
in this country,

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it seems like we're
kind of in the business

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of producing grief for
others and exporting it

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on a large scale.

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And so, thinking
about how that works,

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and how ghosts are
in a certain sense

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a manifestation of
unacknowledged, but communally

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produced grief.

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And I'm also really interested
in the genre of the ghost

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story, and the way in which that
genre tries to diffuse exactly

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that and tries to put off a
kind of acknowledgment of those

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things one cannot face.

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I'm sure ghosts are
many other things too,

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including just what they seem
to be, those people coming back.

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But I think there's
room for them

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to be those people coming
back and manifestations

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of other things as well.

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So this text plays
with incorporating

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ghost stories,
retelling ghost stories,

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and that sort of thing.

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And this section
is called "One No".

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When this, it goes, she said,
window, window, why come thou?

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Watch now.

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My watch as its match
spring, my love was an eland.

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And I that hypnotic, I tuned
up a table, all marrowed

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and craving, the
chant won't un-giving.

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A knuckle, a breastbone,
a light switch, an ibis.

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They say, wherever bird enter,
when there as it happens,

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a bird comes into
the house uninvited,

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most often through a window,
someone will die soon.

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My lover, that eon, my
watcher, that whiteness.

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That bone there, an icon,
I stumble to seem like.

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I stutter and bleach eye.

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I winnow on farther.

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Which, unlike further, means
a distance you can measure,

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and my boat such a small one.

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Often against its will, a ghost
is called, maybe wrenched,

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from its flight in
place with a sound.

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Don't even think about it.

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Maybe hurtled toward
a light inside

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of which a certain
play of wing and sand

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had been trying to forget,
as had the ghost in 1

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Samuel 28:13.

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Who said, I have been
torn by the touch.

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I am blind, and I
flinch and had forgotten

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how the world in
which you live is

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so limited in its
range of visible light.

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There was a certain point
at which the story changed

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from that of the living who
traveled to the underworld

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and back, and became
instead one of the dead who

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came from the land of the
dead and could not return.

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Is a turning.

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Why are we frightened
by doorways?

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Why is there a fear
specifically focused

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on the sound of a door,
or an ear, or a stare?

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A face is an aperture,
but also a ligature.

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Something deep inside
the house swings

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shut, and they start to
describe it as something else.

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