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I'll just read one
last section of this.

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It's probably
plenty for tonight.

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We'll do this one, it's called--

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they're both book
length poems and they

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both work in like this big
kind of sprawl in a way.

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But they're both broken
into little bitty bits

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and that's how I
try to navigate it.

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This section is
called, "Boy-Scatter,

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The Sleepier and the Sleepiest."

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If each story depends on
the part the teller forgets,

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boy-scatter, sleeping pill
sleep and twisted out splinter

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from my neck in the dream.

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One woman kicks another in
the bus station waiting area.

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Raccoons return to the
cracks in the fence.

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Is this what you
meant by forgiveness?

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Didn't the sockets do their job?

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Were you ready and dressed when
they clicked open the trunk?

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Bluish wind and a spell turns
somebody new gazebo to water.

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Forgetting gets
us into our bodies

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tipsy with lack,
tipsy with guessing.

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Chatter and then smoke hang
together in the doorways

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where people huddle in the rain.

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There must be exercises
to adjust your eyes,

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to the yellow, to darkness.

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A thief of the museum's
mummies, of the warped projector

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and film canisters we found in
the meadow behind the taverns.

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The man tears out the
page in the phone book

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at the Pancake House.

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These aren't even movie sets,
this really is Arkansas.

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Black fisted, tire swing,
birds shatter, a kiss

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dried on your forehead.

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A squashed cricket like smell
of the mismatched mountains

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above crows, crumble,
the shadows on the porch

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and I drift numbly outside
for the last trick of dusk

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to stop me.

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Our soup cools and the wind
dies without our permission.

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You will lay down tonight
with all your clothes

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scattered about you on the roof.

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Did you say yes until
it stopped happening?

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Were there pieces in the street?

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Did anybody see your
name in the registry?

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Post office posters of shrugging
thieves who know the bank

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tellers not by name, but by the
scent of their golden perfumes.

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Umbrella, the boy takes it from
the hook on the lavender wall.

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Tonight he thinks, rain
will fill the basement,

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then he'll shimmy up the
tattered tree-house rope

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rat like onto its
little shingles

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and let the storm do
to me what a man can do

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to another man in the street.

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Crackles of
laughter, a wet ghost

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sings her widower's body
shakily out of his shoes.

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Twin sisters filling the
restaurant with their laughter

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from the unattended bathroom.

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A man shorn off from the
din hiding in a stall,

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until the boy is forced to
eat his father's cigarette.

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He and his brothers row
into the center of the river

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to toss over the oars, the boat
flung back from their bodies.

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The second hour to
fold in from dusk

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scolds me, just loosens more
boy-scatter on the roof.

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But the light from my
memory bristles in your eyes

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onto your red cheeks which
gives the soaked road

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breeze a field of
flowers to stick

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to a gospel strain that drills
little holes in your kneecaps.

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Thief of all the other
thieves' ladders.

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The three prisoners escaped
into the swamp-lands bickering

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kept them together.

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Hatchet, heavy is a baby.

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Another question which
starts with the word "if"

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brings a man down like
ellipses in a paragraph break.

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I go walking watching
for foxes perpendicular

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to the canal hoping you get home
and under the covers before me.

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Here is the gift of snow.

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The way it never seems to
come or last, but feels

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inevitable even
effortless when it does.

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And finally boxes raggedy
the color of copper coins

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or whatever is made from
copper anymore that they

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put in to your hand as
they bring you to your feet

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and send you on your way.

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