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And then there's a
book called Writings

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to an Unfinished
Accompaniment, which

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has a lot to do with Mexico.

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And both of these
books were written.

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The Lice was begun, and The
Carrier of Ladders written.

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And this book finished while
the Vietnam War was going on.

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And it occurred in the
poems here and there.

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There's even a poem
called The War.

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There are statues
moving into a war

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as we move into a dream
we will never remember.

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They lived before us, but
in the dream, we may die.

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And each carrying
one wing as in life,

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we may go down all the steps
of the heart into swamp water

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and draw our hands down
after us out of the names.

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And we may lose one
by one our features.

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The stone may say goodbye to us.

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We may say goodbye
to the stone forever

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and embark like a left
foot alone in the air

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and hear at last voices like
small bells and be drawn ashore

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and wake with the war going on.

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