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This is a prayer for that same
earth, I better hurry and say.

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"Foundered Star."

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"Little fevered island
blued to closing.

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Boatmen, tidemen, shademen,
men of color and of peace,

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women of the cabbage,
women of the carrot house,

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women of the swim, children
doe-eyed and able-bodied,

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children of chalky
dreams and milky lips,

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of bugs under glass, come
now to the tips of the roofs.

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Come now to the lake lip, to
the entryway of the tunnels,

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to the counting house.

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Air the eiderdown, steam
the rooms of the lovers,

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break the fistfights from their
arguments, marry the maid.

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Live a little in the afternoon
asking, now what do we do?

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Because this is how we are alive
though we force ourselves out

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of a certain nostalgia
where we first made love.

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The condition of our lives.

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A dark room there but only
because the shades were drawn.

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It was really midday and our
clothes stuck to our bodies

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like hairy beasts.

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We watched the light
change in our eyes

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as we dug deeper, pulling
out embers, remember?

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But the word itself
is no longer magical.

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No longer a living thing.

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A weakness in one
or two breakers.

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Yet there remains
an image when you

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water the sun and moon, mouths
coupling and uncoupling,

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kissing along the ridge
the poet invented--

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coincident, temporal,
carnal, all so that others

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might be entertained.

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Changed a nick or
two like a diamond.

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Who can say whether
better or worse?

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Only this I can
say, I who am always

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writing to you, my earthship, my
next life, though no one is now

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listening or talking,
it's all the same.

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Though no one is now laboring
or sleeping, is forbidden.

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No one yet exploded.

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The globe forgives the
night sky gone yellow,

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the morning sea
gone white and all

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for little greed, a
little light on the wall,

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a view of the other
side or dipped in ink

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where we shall never again
believe things about ourselves

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that aren't true."

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[APPLAUSE]

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