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Removing my clack, I'm
going to do that too.

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So this poem is called Calm.

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And it's in two parts.

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And if I were a calm
person, it would

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have been written in one part.

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And it comes out of those--

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it actually came-- you
know one of those ways

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when you discover the
two levels of feeling

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when somebody says to
you how are you feeling,

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and you say great.

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And then 15 minutes
later, you realize

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you're feeling horrible.

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Yeah, I wish I was calm.

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One.

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September sun, a little
fog in the mornings,

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no sanctified terror.

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At night Luke says, how do you
connect a B to an A in cursive?

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He is bent to the task
with such absorption

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that he doesn't
notice the Scarlatti

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on the stereo which he would, in
other circumstances, turn off.

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He said that chamber music
sounds to him worried.

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I go out and look
at the early stars.

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They glow faintly.

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Faintly the mountain, I'm sorry.

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Faintly the mountain is
washed in the color of sunset,

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at this season of faded
scarlet like the petals

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of the bougainvillea
which is also fading.

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A power saw somewhere
in the neighborhood

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is enacting someone's
idea of more

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pleasure, or an extra
room, or a redwood tub.

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It hums and stops,
hums and stops.

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Two.

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In the dream there
was a face saying no.

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Not with words.

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Brow furrow, crow's
foot, lip curl, no.

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It is forbidden to you, no.

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But it was featureless.

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You could put your
hand through it

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and feel cold on the other side.

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It was not the
father face saying

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no among the torsos and pillars
of aluminum, or the mother face

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weeping no, no, no at the
gate that guards rage.

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It was not even the idiot
face of the obedient brother

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attacking his list of
175 reasons why not

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on the greenhouse door.

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This face spits on archetypes,
spits on caves, rainbows,

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the little human luxury
of historical explanation.

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The meadow, you
remember the meadow,

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and the air in June,
which held the scent of it

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as the woman in religious
icons holds the broken son?

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You can go into that
meadow, the light routed

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by a brilliant
tenderness of green,

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a cool V carved by a muskrat
in the blue great distance

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of the pond, black
eyed Susans everywhere.

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You can go there.

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