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I love Philip Larkin.

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And this poem is called, "After
Reading Larkin's High Windows."

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"I'm also in the dark about
honeycreepers and luminescence

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in general and that first moment
a woman breathed into my ear.

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I've been having a hard
time with color separation

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and the way that marbles
clink off of one another

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when you shake them.

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I've been looking at the
way my fingers interlock.

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I've been considering how
tired I get at 7 o'clock

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in the evening.

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Do you remember teaching me the
Russian words for lounge chair

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and biscuit cutter
and luggage van?

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I'm trying to tell
you not to worry,

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but I'm worried about
how that might sound

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to you what with
the trucks coming in

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and the birds swooping and
it already being 20 years

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down the road and a
Tuesday and April."

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