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"Confession."

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"Down in the blue-green
water at nightfall

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some selving shapes float
fluorescing, trance-dancing,

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trembling to the rhythm of
theodoxical marching-music

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that they hear over the mere
noise of the breaking tide.

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Above, stars in certain places.

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Along the shore
roads, cars carrying

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people on uncertain
errands, sordid and sacred,

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and all the kinds in between.

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Halogen-lit, a woman gets
down from her all-wheel-drive

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velocipede, enters
through an obeying door,

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a cyclopean store to buy
unintelligent fresh fish

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and other objects,
whether formerly

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alive or formerly dead.

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She comes out again.

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A poor man calls to her
selling his no-news-paper.

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The disastrous
headlines smile and nod.

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They announce the plans of
steel patriots and undertakers,

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ad-men and fallen vise-generals,
doping their stolen crusades.

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But the woman has learned, as
I have learned, as all of us

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must keep learning if we
are to be good subjects, how

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to make of a newspaper
the mask of a locust.

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Calmly put it on, and begin
once more to eat everything up."

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