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I'm going to skip ahead.

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All right.

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Most of these are pretty
long, but this one's

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about three or four rows.

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From the middle
of the manuscript.

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Hey, Democritus, whiz.

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Aye!

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I'm made of frame chainmail.

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If so, I'll collapse at
the bottom in a glittering

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heap with a little
viscous rebound

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resettling like in the crash
dummy commercials but shinier.

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[BLOWS ON MIKE]

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I need earmuffs.

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Clinamen, dammit.

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Why don't you look
where you're going?

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Some plunging atoms are
boinging like soft peas

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in a rubberized clog
dance right next to me,

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coalescing into Harold Bloom
thanks to the spell checker.

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His tie goes shooting
upward, past his neck

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like a noose in a cosmic draft.

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O romantic cosmic
funicular keep falling.

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Shit!

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Look out.

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Bang!

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The chain window goes gooey in
the friction of plunged stuff.

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I'm silver metal bubblegum now,
glommed onto Harold's face.

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So I'm John's octopus.

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I mean Harold's John's octopus.

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Iraq comes ricocheting
toward us from the right.

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Quick!

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IED disposal calculus.

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A roadside bomb
explodes in the void

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below your feet rushing off
to the left hand void now.

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I vow to save all beings.

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Yours truly, the chainmail gum.

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Waking to slithering and
fangs luminous noumena

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I'll miss you apostrophe.

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Hurtles up too in the
windy rage ur-cosmos,

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I greet you at the end of a
great career which nonetheless

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must have had a long
foreground somewhere.

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The floating delicate light
on bushes and grasses,

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kinetic testicle
scrotal sac wind.

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Thanks, Walt. You walk
through the wash sand

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on the wind hill
outside Santa Fe.

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The creosote bush looks
at you a final time.

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And the sand does and the furs
in the gently falling koan

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about snow which is not
falling in that other place,

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hence, falling in
that other place.

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This is how it is for me,
signed the bubble gum.

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Something wicked this way comes
shrieking up through wind.

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But can this be
if there's no air?

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But there's snow here.

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And in the cross drift
rising and falling,

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it floats and hovers
buoyed by the air that

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isn't here like real
snow hopping lightly

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horizontal for a while.

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It is real snow.

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Lighting up the
void, the moonlight

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catches it from the top
and side and the underside.

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Tender void through
which the soft rocks fall

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approaching light speed bump.

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I greet you.

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Um, I'm turning into Walt again.

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Great.

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Rock me in billowy drowse.

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I can repay you.

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Coin of the realm
which is breath.

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Exhaling thoughts
to the vanished air,

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they hover and pulse as snow.

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Richard Hell and the Voidoids?

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No.

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Willie Nelson singing
Moonlight in Vermont again.

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I see finger waves.

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I see finger waves?

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I don't get it.

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A snow drift ripples through
my face, cold wavy muscles.

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They pass it along
into chattered air.

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Morphed mats of light.

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Telephone.

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I don't think Democritus can
be the origin of democracy.

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There goes the other sun in a
ball turned into snow and mossy

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scabs of the worm fence
and heaped stones and elder

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and muleim=n and poke weed.

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The chainmail came
from the stars.

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I mean it was them.

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I came from mud, falling in
the wind, now glittering,

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like the mind that made
all this at 11:41 AM in sun

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through the ambient
cloud filter, again.

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