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This is kind of new.

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"Why weren't you Tenney?

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I was Tenney--

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Oh, I should say, the two
best lines from the poem

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were lifted from Frank
O'Hara, so you get

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to figure out which they are.

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Three, actually.

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"Why weren't you Tenney?

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I was Tenney.

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Yippee, I'm glad I'm alive.

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I'm glad you're alive too, baby,
because I want to fuck you.

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We're alive and we're dead.

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We think we're alive now
and we'll be dead later,

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but that's baloney.

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The idiom of American zen is
the idiom of American poetry.

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Save a ghost in JA48
point Houdini type.

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We're swimming
through the bardos,

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paddling around the shallow
water park amid the oscillating

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mass of light.

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It's not funny.

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The tree over there is a
ghost waving its branches.

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Hi, I can save them all.

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No, this is the tree.

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All them people over there,
including Tenney Nathanson,

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associate professor of-- huh?

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I'm AutoCorrect, my
friend is your friend.

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The spell checker with that
rank, glug, glug, glug.

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Save a ghost doesn't want
to horse around right now,

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so it bathes your cement head
in cement and water and wind

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and light, drifting through
now from the other stars.

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Swell that it's rhizomatic.

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My mother is a ghost.

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She saves Ghost Tenney.

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A hungry ghost doesn't know
it's a ghost, so it's hungry.

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Is that right?

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So you feed it its
ghostness, and it

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morphs along the rows
of oscillating current.

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They look a little like
rotating lit-up doormats.

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Katsu, don't yell
at the poor ghosts!

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Please, they have
it hard enough being

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gay and straight and ghostly.

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Please don't feed the ghosts.

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Quadralingual sign on the
French National Railway

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you can safely ignore.

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In Italian, it said
it's dangerous to stick

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your head out the window.

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Ha ha.

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Tim ghost, Charles ghost,
Barb ghost, Frank ghost,

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corporate poetry pop ghost.

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Victim, person where can
any dust alight ghost.

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Family correctly not
enumerated by name, all ghosts.

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Bobby Thompson ghost, souvenir
ball ghosts, Don DeLillo

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brilliant chapter ghost.

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J. Edgar Hoover ghost.

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Siri and Paul in Brooklyn ghost.

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John Ashbery's Vermont
notebook ghost.

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Air ghost, wind
ghosts, the testicles

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and scrotal sac ghost.

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Yes, wind whose soft whispering
genitals tickle against me

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ghost.

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Scruffy Walt ghost, canny
Emily ghost, Walt canny, too.

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My beautiful doggie ghost.

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My live doggie and
my dead doggie.

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Allen Ginsberg sightless
in Moloch ghost,

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enlightenment ghost.

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Enlightened one falls
into a well ghost,

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climbs back out ghost.

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Quit that.

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Where do we find ourselves?

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Along a huge prospect
overlooking the Pima County

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landfill.

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Plastic bag shreds
blow happily along.

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A huge snake slithers
across the sky,

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and the Tucson basin shudders.

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No, it's the snake
that shudders.

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No, the mine.

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The mine doesn't shake, but
it does Mickey's monkey mind.

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Lum-dy, lum-dy, lie.

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Lum-dy, lum-dy, lie-eye.

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I have no idea how to
spell it, wallowing along

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the oral tradition bardo.

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The grizzled spell-checker lies
down in total despair and dies,

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but not before correcting
"grissled", the old fart.

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I don't know if I can let
my ghostly dead drift slowly

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through my ghost body.

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Four months later, why not?

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Yes, mud mine, all right.

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Frankly, I'm assuming
that everything

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is all right and
difficult. But is snow

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falling in that other place?

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Oh, I am a ghost.

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And where I am, the
ghost snow falls

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and drifts at a 30-degree angle
horizontally through air which

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isn't there, unless I say so.

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Though being a
ghost now, standing

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in ghost snow, what
I say drifts down

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like snow that isn't
there, dissolved

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in air that isn't there.

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But in you is the "huh?"

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when all the stars are mute.

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Yasutani as t0
destruction everything

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is destroyed, as to no,
nothing is destroyed.

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Which leaves you today's
air, that means me,

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the ghost formerly
known as Tenney.

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Thump, thump, thump.

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Orange brick wall
very bright now.

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Huge pinon waving energetically
in the stiff breeze,

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maybe even agitated.

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Are you OK, tree?

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Remember, you're a ghost.

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Just this this.

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I'll dance with all your
needles brushing my face

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at the ghost ball, pale
washed blue behind all of it,

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washed by light
stumping this checker.

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And behind that,
the shoji screens.

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Eternal bric-a-brac
of the Spotless Mind,

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omnipresent like Big Mind, which
is also a ghost, a big one.

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Thank you.

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