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This is a poem that I think
came out a few years ago,

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but it's one of
these things that

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happened many, many years ago.

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I mean, the setting
is sort of late 50s,

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but it struck me as being in
some way applicable today,

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you know, eternally applicable.

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You'll see in a minute.

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So I'll begin with this one.

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It's called "Hurricane Season."

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Just as the world was ending,
we fell in love immoderately.

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I had a pair of blue
pinstripe trousers,

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impeccably pressed
against misfortune.

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You had a pair of
silver spiked heel

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shoes and a peekaboo blouse.

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We looked swank, kissing
while reflected in a pawn shop

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window, banjos and
fiddles around us,

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even a gleaming tuba.

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I said, two phosphorescent
minute hands

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against the
unmeasurables, geniuses

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when it came to
undressing each other

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by slow, tantalizing degrees.

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That happened in a crepuscular
hotel that had seen better

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days, across from some sort
of august state institution,

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rain-blurred, with a couple
of fake Egyptian stone lions.

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