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On the radio an ad for the
biggest hairspray sale ever.

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That's funny.

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The history of
chemistry is bound up

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in the history of alchemy.

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It's the yin yang of whatever.

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The Chinese
expression for beloved

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means person in the mind.

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Beloveds my mind is using me.

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It writes the wrong poems, it
keeps me up at night with one

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thought after another,
a Chinese water torture,

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drop after drop--

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ping, ping, ping.

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I go over why you left and
get tangled in the sheets.

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I read the Latin root
of torture is twist.

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I'm against all torture
used as a metaphor.

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In New Orleans a preacher
named Seth told me

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the churches helped everyone
after the floods, Jews, gays,

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everyone.

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But it would be different
at the second coming.

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I said nothing.

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Three years later
the houses still

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are spray painted
with the number

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of dead bodies found inside.

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I know someone who says it
was the largest made disaster

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in the history of the world.

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I heard that history is the
anti novel, but forget why.

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Aristotle says
history tells what

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happened, poetry the kind
of thing that can happen.

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To sleep, I meditate on the
people I love, growing old.

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The impermanence of
the body, and the idea

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that we already do and always
will contain each other,

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regardless.