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Here's something.

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I guess I don't
know whether this

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is a song or a dramatic
monologue or whatever.

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It's a kind of
nightmare poem, I guess

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you could say, about
somebody lying in the dark

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and thinking he's being--

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thinking there's
somebody in the house.

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And the person in the house is
Eros, but Eros, God of Love,

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is a highly sinister figure.

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Eros is more like Hermes,
in fact, a stealer.

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And that's what the poem
is called, "The Stealer."

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He's stealing along, but he's
also going to do some thieving.

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"The Stealer."

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"I lie and live my body's fear.

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Something's at large
and coming near.

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No dead bolt can keep it back.

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A worm of fog leaks
through a crack.

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From the darkness, as before,
it grows the body in my door.

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Like a taker,
scarved and gloved,

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it steals this way,
like when I loved.

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Fear stiffens me and a
slow joy at the approach

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of the sheathed boy.

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Will he, too, do
what that one did,

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unlock me first, open
the lid, and reach inside

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with playful feel?

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All the better, thus, to steal."

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It's very nice of you to
applaud, but don't wear out

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your hands.

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