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Now, I have the
pleasure-- it's always

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hard to decide what to read,
but tonight, because Chax Press,

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Charles Alexander,
has put this book out,

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which I just saw earlier today
for the first time, Four Poems,

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quite recent.

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I thought I would read these
four, fairly short, poems.

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And the first is called
"Targets of Opportunity."

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"We share these sediments,
sentiments, out of hope

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of passing through divides
into an uncrossed wildness that

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never can arrive, that always,
already, has been sold--

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the world inhabited by its
core of molten plains of pain,

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the loss of which binds the
gap to break against such lore

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as those our father's
father's father told to

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tune the flood of days."

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