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Two more.

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Another version of that
lament for expertitis

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was delivered by one
Augustine Birrell,

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who said: "how these authors
magnify their office.

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One dishonest plumber does
more harm than 100 poetasters."

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I love that.

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Oh, this poem-- what should
be the epigraph for this poem

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would come from
Jean Cocteau, who

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said that children and lunatics
cut the Gordian knot which

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the poet spends his life
patiently trying to untie.

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Melted Money.

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You know that stuff, that
gelt you get at Christmas?

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No, you don't get a
gelt with Christmas.

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That gelt you get at Hanukkah?

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You leave it near the hearth.

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It's not like grown ups' money.

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It's really affected by weather.

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It's great.

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Something I like about
it, a responsive money,

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money with soul, melted money.

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Time and time again,
we told them not

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to leave their stuff
so near the stove,

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but children have no past,
they don't believe in futures.

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Whiles and whiles of
smoke unwind from houses,

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causing more or less sky.

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I can't tell.

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I spent my life
forgetting music's nature

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is to pour right off the
measured page, and intuition

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floods the calendar,
and animals go

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stitching our enumerated
yards together, world already

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without end.

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A little gold spills
out from windows.

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Everyone has spent too much
on God's next birthday.

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Thanks to the
invisible, we are alive.

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Take heat.

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You can't directly see it,
but it spins a shadow just as

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clear as its subtended stove.

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It is the meaning of the
stove and moving off from it.

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The children now are
nowhere to be seen.

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The children's
pictures look undone.

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The flesh-colored
crayons are starting

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to melt into the
Earth-colored ones.

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