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I'm skipping around a bit.

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Here we are now in Vegas.

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For all you gamblers out there.

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"I'm dreaming your dream
when you were unconscious.

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And I had to prop
you in a wheelchair

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and push you across
a hotel lobby, dense

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with insomniacs gesturing
in a cave of neon light.

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The narrative of their lives.

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Coinage they're
occasionally repaid

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from a slot machine in Vegas.

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A vague sense of
having done something

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without remembering details,
they pull down and down.

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No night, no day.

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They stopped for coffee,
a smoke, and a bite.

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Trying to turn you around to get
you out of the empty elevator.

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I've gone up maybe a hundred,
maybe a few hundred flights.

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It seems our floor is missing.

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We need to regroup, except
that one of us is indisposed.

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As your leader, I
feel responsible

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for this delay in our arrival.

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I will the action forward.

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I find your proper bed.

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I ice your face,
I cover your body,

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then I allow myself to
think of my own needs.

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My room service, my damp fries.

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Finally, I'm alone
with the television.

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As you are, I remind myself
in the least frightening way

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possible, coming
out of anesthesia,

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to your next medication, a
heavily brocaded bedspread

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and drapes drawn to
keep out the light

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and the mountain range,
which, now that I am peeking,

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seem to be closer.

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A glance inward at the
set provides a snapshot

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of male adult soldiers in
full battle regalia leveling

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artillery fire at
rock-throwing children.

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I must be mistaken.

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I must be tired.

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I must be lonely without you
in an otherworldly sleep.

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The gods had given
them the Nile.

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It was only the foreigners,
the strangers, who needed rain.

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It's plain how many
purely practical duties I

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could attend.

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Wash you, for example,
or for a prayer.

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For a time, holy being in the
service of trees and pasture

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and the home of lions,
antelope, and sheep.

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Those strangers seemed
far away and harmless."

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