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So, two more sections.

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[THUD]

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Bong, indeed, bong, bong, bong.

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Boing?

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Well, sure, pluck your
magic twanger, Gambol quail.

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And yes, they get busy
scuttling about tweezing seeds.

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Why not?

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Brownian motion,
chapter umpteenth.

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Everything plays "stop the
sounds of the distant temple

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bell," my hands, wrists,
biceps, skull, and inner head,

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land of a thousand dances
and gradually attenuating

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overtones.

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Cactus wren chirr, crow
caw, mourning doves whoo.

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They're not so obviously
thuggish right now.

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And later, inside, parakeets,
still under their sheet, chip,

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chip chee woo, chip chee.

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Moral, it looses moral that
has never ceased to flow.

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Sycamore, I see you
have a woodpecker

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in your hole, enlightened
consciousness.

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Latke slides near, wanting
to drift unobjectionably

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under my hand and push up.

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Stop shoving my
wrist, I'm typing.

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Lies back down.

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Licks and tooths at her
right hind leg on the tile,

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assiduously licks front paw.

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My head has pretty
much stopped vibrating,

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but my arms vibe the
overtone, shoulders too.

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I know something else that's
often a good instance of this.

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Swimming to or
floating hippo-ish

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in the pool on the orange
long-tube spaghetti floatie,

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bob, bob, bob.

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Davening probably,
too, like the bloke

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in the black hat and gabardine
coat, all night on the New

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York-bound Tucson plane, in the
tight focus of his nightlife,

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from around 5th Street.

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Now the bird calls get
tiny and everything glides

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away from dawn toward the
business of day, variously

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intense, tense, funny,
lascivious, slack, cherubic,

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or boinged.

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Or else dawn rolls
away like a stage

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set behind or under it,
disrobing the busier backdrop,

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russet mantle clad, et cetera.

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Before it was, I don't know,
like the immense rattle

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of a diffuse genius loci
snake, who meant no menace.

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Like Leslie says, the
comic book is calm

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because, anyway,
everything was snake.

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Not the feeling David had when
stepping on the dark snake

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in Brazil, in sandals.

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He said it felt like a
baggie containing shit,

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then it kind of whirred
then bit that brown bump

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on the ankle bone, I don't
know what it's called,

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like he said, an electric
drill, then flopped off

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hard onto the dirt road
and slithered off his leg,

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then an intensely magnified
stop at temple bell

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reverberater, receptacle,
or maybe power station.

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It didn't stop for days.

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He didn't die.

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But whenever it rains,
his leg gets whacked

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by the cosmic densho cop.

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Hose slurs water into the
mysteriously emptied spa.

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Hard not to mean the attendant
air of privilege, which

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was actually a whole
lot more minimal

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than it sounds, land of
a thousand dependents.

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Matte green scrub up the hills
toward the serious mountain

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goes washier green in
the slanting-down light.

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But the oppresses, like the
heft of cathedral tunes,

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has absconded, leaving you
face to face with save-a-ghost.

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Some place on the other
side, the mountain

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is gleaming its washed red
rock face back at the sun,

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Catalina glint-o-rama
being the proper term.

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Hide.

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Who?

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I guess you, OK, gentle reader.

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I initiate you into the
diffusely bonging body,

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boinging into roadside rabbit
poised down now, scampering

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stealthily into the brush.

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Now you're a cactus pad feeling
your spines because I said so.

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Apparently, it's allowed
to be with Whitmanian.

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It's all happening at the zoo.

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Intense dark green of the
well-watered Lady Banksia

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climbing rose, devouring
entire west-facing plate

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glass pseudo second
story window,

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you're blocking all my light.

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Good morning.

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And it is.

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Not the light to the south,
where a single bird heads

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north in a liquid hurry,
picking up altitude then sliding

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from view.

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I dedicate this morning
business to the people of Iraq.

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And to you, whoever
you are, now I

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take your hand that
you be my poem.

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Bong into the general, only
apparently intermittent,

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vibration.

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Bzzzz, says other shore
this shore for sure.

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Gah!

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All right, one more.

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