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"The Third Ceremony."

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Emmanuel.

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Child, it is your water friend.

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I carry a gift such as will
be needed in your new art.

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Touch.

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Lord, thank you.

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I will handle it with care.

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Forth from a pool of dancing
blues and greens with nothing

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in his hands, Emmanuel leans
to stroke the dazzled infant's

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brow and lips, heart, limbs, and
sex with glistening fingertips.

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Oh floating, puny thing,
gaily begin exploring.

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Let fingers flow about, between,
below head, neck, and arms

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and these new, knobbly
knees find each child.

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No.

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I will.

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I do, Lord.

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And?

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Make sense of them.

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See?

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The taste of revenge.

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Feel your poor
mother give a start.

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She cries.

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On the morrow you
will hear that cry.

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Tom, it's moved.

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Tom, I am near my time.

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Lord, how gratefully I float
in this your world and not yet

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hear those two near cries.

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Forgive.

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Accept the first tears
of these swimming eyes.

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Oh touching, touching.

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Were not feelings banned I'd
call this gift most feeling

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of its kind.

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Child, you have passed
the halfway mark.

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Soon daylight, noise,
the slap will wrench you

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from your liquid dark.

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Think on us, child,
in your sleep.

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Clutch the plump breast,
purse the little lip,

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tasting the milk of
life, then soon put hands

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to keys and magic us with tune.

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Now blessings on you three.

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Go well, dear babe.

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We dwell in thee.

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Emmanuel goes.

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The thin unearthly glaze has
spread across the portrait.

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Here a nose, there an
ear can be made out.

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The room dissolves about us.

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Robert?

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But he stays.

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Sirs, he called through door.

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Uni, tell them to
come early and speak.

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Tomorrow.

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Yes, for on the final
day we say goodbye.

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Oh sirs, oh sirs.

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Uni, there will be
toys, a little horse,

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horsey his first word.

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Hush, he won't forget.

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But Uni is gone
elsewhere with his grief.

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Next day, his feelings mastered.

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Sirs, he asked me,
Uni, what do you see?

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I saw a very small man
still with Mr. R's kind eyes

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but a crutch and a flute.

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I told him.

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Uni, just as I thought, just so.

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He's here.

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Oh, Mr. Robert, who will
boost you upon my back?

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Uni, no more rides
for us, dear creature.

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How you've lifted my
heart, but now farewell.

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Tomorrow the lads will
find our nursery doors

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swinging on its
hinges and your friend

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Robert, a red defensive
wrinkled thing

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awaiting the breath of life.

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No tears in those great
faithful eyes and on your rump

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with my imagined flute
and affectionate thump.

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Uni, away.

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Oh, Robert.

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And no tears in our
small, faithless ones?

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Well, faithless?

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No, no.

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We believe.

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We do.

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And so must I.

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Will it be taken from you
now, that ingrained callus

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of the self?

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Oh, all skinned off before
another tiny Marsyas can stand

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up to Apollo,
flute in hand, must

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come the terrifying interval
in which pure facelessness

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attempts to smile.

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This is still you, though?

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But inside the soft
walnut shell the meat

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formed these long
months is grinding out

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a new tune from its grooves.

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A tune that, heard,
makes you inaudible?

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Somewhere no doubt
in ancient '78

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preserves the scratchy tone of
that late great amateur tenor

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me.

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And while Earth's waiting
for its new music,

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we'll replay the old
to our heart's content.

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DJ, will we be told your name?

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JM, have you been told it?

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You've struck a note.

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There's rustling in the wings.

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We've time left
only for last words.

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What would it be?

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Shall we defy them?

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Turn the clock back?

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It's everything one
loathes about the dance.

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Sentence completed here
in operatic unison,

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we looked round, they
were, and you, too.

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DJ, did you hear, JM?

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A kindred soul.

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You warmed my heart,
dear ones, from start

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to this, the not so bitter end.

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Quick, a caress on
either elder's brow.

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I'm tip top on the
children's slide.

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Now.

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Now.

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