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And last year, in one of the
world's miserable corners--

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in Seattle, it rained for 32
days straight last January,

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and this poem came out of that.

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So it's a special kind
of unpleasantness.

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It's called "Here, There."

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"Everywhere a special
kind of maiming

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is going on in a
recognizable dark.

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It's a monster, but
average and bored.

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It carries a flail and
plays a threshing game.

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It cuts us darker till
we're spare and part.

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Tongue.

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Torso.

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It shaves us, wears us thin.

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It hones us to a pin,
a single inward point.

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It makes a bone spur out
of us and out of joint.

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Our knot is drawn
into a stranglehold.

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What we know is
pinched and tight,

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and day is just a hard stone to
whittle a self away on until it

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cracks and sinks.

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You think you're cold?

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Touch it.

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It's in the closet and under
the bed and in the alleyway

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and in your head."

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