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This is called "Deaf Friend."

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"Deaf Friend."

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"What will be served for our
reception in the devastation?

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Finger food, of course,
and white wine, something

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printed on the napkins.

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We were not children
together, but we are now.

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Every bird knows only a few
notes constantly rearranged.

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That is called forever.

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So we wear pajamas through
the practice funeral,

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buckaroos to the end.

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We make paper hats of
headlines and float them away.

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My home made of smoke, tiny
spider made of punctuation.

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My favorite poem is cinder
crashed into the sidewalk.

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My friend's becoming
the simplest of men.

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He sees a lesson in everything,
from missing his train,

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and his son hollering from
the first branch, Dad,

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guess where I am.

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I was with him for
my first magpies,

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governmental and
acting like hell.

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And the new nickel, with
Washington hard to recognize.

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We've driven by a
rabbit flattened

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by an upset truck, jars
of Miracle Whip broken

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over the toll road
in heavy snow.

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We watched an old
lady eat a hot dog

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in a bun with a knife and fork.

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A few emeralds winged
off a fruit leaf.

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What happens when
your head splits open

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and the birds fly out,
its two notes deranged?

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You got better.

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I got better.

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Wild flowers rims the crater.

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Glitter, glitter, glitter.

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We knew someone
whose father died,

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then we knew ourselves,
astronomer, gladiator, thief,

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a tombstone salesman.

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All our vacations went to the
sea that breathed two times

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a day without a machine.

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We got into trouble with a raft
doing what we promised not to.

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Further out, to be
brought further back.

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Here is my friend
in his squashed hat,

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trying to determine if a dot is
a living thing and doing harm.

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He's having trouble
remembering street names.

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But there's still
plenty of Thoreau.

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All that a human
is made of is gold.

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Very, very little gold."

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