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Don't worry about this huge
stack you see in my hands.

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I'm only reading a very few.

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Yeah, I can see you
looking alarmed.

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Will I ever have dinner?

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You will.

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So manifest is an interesting
word in that, of course,

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it means made visible.

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But it also means the
list of cargo in a ship,

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and that's what it will
come to in this poem.

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"Manifest."

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"Hawks, rivers, cities, ochre,
us, a species whose right hand

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sketches its left hand
but can't draw itself.

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Whales.

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Geosynchronous satellites.

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A truck hauling folded
tarps under a tarp.

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Wars, hunger, jail cells,
praises, pratfalls, puns, gold

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circuits on phone
card connectors--

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all cargo, manifest, circling
the sun together each 365 days

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plus a few remnant hours.

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A story here ribboned
with lightning.

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They're dimmed by clouds
on a nitrogen, oxygen,

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carbon dioxide, and
dust-cushioned bundle,

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whose glaciers depart,
insects quiet, seas rise.

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To that which is coming, I
say, here, take what is yours.

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But forget, if you
can, what is coming,

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find not worth pocketing,
let fall unnoticed as weed

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seed, one small handful
of moments and gestures.

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Moments mouse-colored, minor
gestures disturbing no one,

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slipped between the ones
that were counted, the ones

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in which everything happened.

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A petroglyph's
single fingerprint.

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A spider awake in
an undusted corner.

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Let stay, if you
can, what is coming,

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one or two musical notes,
hummed in a half hour that

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couldn't be herded
or mined, made

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to save daylight or spend it.

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Leave one unfraudulent
hope, one affection

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like curtains blown open in
wind whose minutes, seconds,

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fragrance, choices won't
sadden the heart to recall."

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