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Thank you, Frances.

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Thank you, my dear friend, Matt.

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This is called, "Dear Reader."

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And it begins with the title.

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"Dear reader, my nightmares
are your confetti

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so you may step over
tiny skulls like a satrap

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among unhousebroken whippets.

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The sour diapers
of morning give way

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to the overripe plums of
noon, give way to the designer

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cheeses of evening.

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Then night is no one's problem.

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How tender it is
with its murderers,

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how consoling to
its trillionaires

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that lost space man
music in the pines, god

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opening his box of fishhooks.

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Dear reader.

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I thought I was prepared,
but I'm never prepared.

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But please, take this.

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It is your lift ticket,
your perfume that

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lingers in the fire-fickled
room long after you've

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vamoosed and made that poor
boy nursing his third cinnamon

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daiquiri realize he
missed his chance,

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your bones already asterisks,
your chipmunk glass a schwa."

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