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"Last Night."

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"The next day, I
am almost afraid.

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Love?

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It was more like the
dragonflies in the sun,

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100 degrees at noon, the ends
of their abdomen stuck together.

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I close my eyes when I remember,
I wince, I cover my mouth.

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Love-- I hardly know myself,
like something twisting

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and twisting out of a
chrysalis, enormous being

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without language, all
head, all shut eyes,

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and the humming more
like ruin, madness,

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the way they writhe away, away,
and do not leave back, back,

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away, back.

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Did I know you?

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No kiss, no sweetness--
it was more like killing,

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death-grip holding to life, the
sexes like two violent hands

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clasped tight, barely
moving, more like closed

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in the lion's jaws and eaten.

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And the screaming, I
groan to remember it.

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And then when we
started to die and die,

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then I refuse to
remember, the way a drunk

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forgets what he smashed,
lay ruined behind us.

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Afterwards, you held
my hands extremely hard

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as I shuddered in steady, long
shudders like the ferryboat

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when the axle won't engage.

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You kept me sealed
exactly against you,

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our hairlines wet as
the arc of a doorway.

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You clamped in your arms
like a sweet straitjacket

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till I slept--

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that was love.

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And we woke in the morning
clasped, fragrant, buoyant,

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that was the morning after love.

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Are you all right?

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[LAUGHTER]

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OK.

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Five more.

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