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I would like to do one more
before I read some prose

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poems to you.

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This one was written for
my father when he was ill,

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and I was drawn very
suddenly out of one locale

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and had to fly to another.

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It seemed odd for many reasons.

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Video Rain.

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I am flown to your
good side now.

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Hiked up like a
skirt, the elevator,

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intones the cardiac, the
cancer ward and finally

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the stroke floor.

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Like we're always in bed,
and need to be reminded

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we must all carry our seeds
in our heads like flowers.

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The insane staking an
identity on high tech.

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It's time to rethink
the entire landscape,

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while I still have
the body for it.

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After years of doing what you
did, you do it to my hero.

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As I drag you to one side and
I wait for the coins to drop,

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and the video to begin lighting
its commands, I hear a tension.

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This is your stress test.

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Having to really give
all that suffering up.

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Having it as a guide,
not a destination.

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Everything is
explained in flight.

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I can't stand these
elderly stewardesses,

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these computer tones
whispering forward, forward.

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At Atlanta International, there
are sharp tiers of fluorescent

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on poster babies.

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And in eyes that have just
come from the freeway,

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as from a marriage of
Mobil and McDonald's.

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Getting off at the right time
like a drug, at terminal C

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the Olympic games are rerun.

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Greg Louganis sharks the pool.

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Mary Lou Retton scarfs Wheaties.

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Where temporarily I live, on
the corner of Asamblea de Dios

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and Destino.

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There's my exit.

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Low tide, a last
morning on the beach.

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And this is it, isn't it?

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The Earth we despaired
of with Texaco refineries

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and acid rain,
and you are having

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to take the hand of
the man in the moon.

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The Black male nurse
so clean and necessary.

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Like tourists reach for
a Holiday Inn in the fog,

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as you feel for him, I have
been really feeling this country

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lately.

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Deciding what to do next.

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Conscientiously pressing street
crossings, like an accordion

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which opens into a city.

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And the only difference
is this really happens.

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For everyone, dad,
the days are long,

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but it seems like
we're always in bed.

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Sunsets, outside quiet
and silent towns.

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