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This is another
poem that something

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to do with a neighborhood.

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It's called "Getting
Ready For a Date."

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"There are bad people
in every culture.

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One learns this from
visiting museums.

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That's why it's best to
live on one's own street,

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where the trees are familiar
brides and the dogs nod,

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padding off to their business.

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But even here in one's
own home at night,

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lying awake, reviewing
your education, how things

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have come together, there
are other elements--

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the shadow of a branch on a
window, some foreign student

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thrown out, turned
robber, standing there

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for hours, filamentous,
internalizing a movie he

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saw about samurai
raging across the world.

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In their cage, the birds
are jumping up and down,

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pointing, trying to
give warning, characters

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out of Walt Disney all
up on the closet shelf,

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your wrinkled plastic kite.

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The one that almost
won the competition

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rolls back and forth,
a man with hemorrhoids,

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a haughty Florentine painter
looking for his brush

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or getting ready for a date.

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You get up and wander around
the country of the kitchen

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as if eating a dish
of cold spaghetti

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would make up for
having forgotten to eat

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the right things all week.

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Then at last, bowing
to lock the front door,

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also remember the lawnmower
sitting stiffly out

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on the lawn, a lost hound,
alert visitor longing

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to be invited in, the
mail not yet picked up,

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the jeweled keys, music.

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hanging in the
truck's ignition."

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