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One other one, and then I
want to play a little more

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of The Necroambulites.

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This is called In Sepia.

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"Often you walked at
night, house lights

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made nets of their lawns,
your shadow briefly over them.

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Often you felt dishonored"--

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I'm sorry.

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I got to start
again, missed a line.

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In Sepia.

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"Often you walked at
night, house lights

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made nets of their lawns,
your shadow briefly over them.

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You had been talking
about death over and over.

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Often you felt dishonest,
though certainly some figure

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moved in the dark yards, a
parallel circumstance keeping

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pace.

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By 'death,' you meant
a change of character.

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He is a step ahead,
interlocutor by

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whose whisper the future parts
like water, allowing entrance.

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That was a way of facing
it and circumventing it.

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Death was the person
into whom you stepped.

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Life then was a series
of static events,

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as here the child in sepia
climbs the front steps dressed

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for winter.

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Even the snow is brown.

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And no, he will never
enter that house

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because each passage,
as into a new life,

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requires his forgetfulness.

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Often you would explore these
photographs, these memories

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in sepia of another life.

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Their use was tragic,
evoking a circumstance,

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the particular fragments of
an always shattered past.

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Death was processed then,
a release of nostalgia

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leaving you free to change.

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Perhaps you were wrong,
but walking at night,

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each house got personal.

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Each had a father.

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He was reading a story
so hopeless, so starless,

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we all belonged."

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[APPLAUSE]

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