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This poem is called "Truth."

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Truth is what you can't tell.

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Truth is for the grave.

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Truth is only the
flowing shadow cast

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by the wind-tossed elm when sun
is bright and grass well mowed.

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Truth is a downy feather
you blow from your lips

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to shine in sunlight.

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Truth is a trick that
history over and over

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again plays on us.

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Its shape is unclear in
shadow or brightness,

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and its utterance,
the wisp we strive

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to catch in the
scream of a locomotive

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desperately blowing for
the tragic crossing.

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Truth is a curse laid
on us in the garden.

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Truth is a serpents joke.

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It is a sun-stung
dust devil that

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swirls on the lee side
of God when he drowses.

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Truth is a long soliloquy of
the dead, all their long night.

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Truth this what would
be told us by the dead

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if they could hold
conversation with the living

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and thus fulfill their
obligation to us--

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their accumulated
wisdom must be immense.

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[CLAPPING]

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