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OK.

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So let me from
there the beginning

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of that skip ahead
to something which--

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some part of A Reading,
which comes much later.

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Well, not that much later.

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Early in 1980.

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There will be a new volume
of Reading some time I hope

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in the spring from Lapis Press.

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And this is from that manuscript
now from the very end of it

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so it turns out to be part 10.

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And actually, a part of this
was published in Conjunctions 10

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and Chax Press.

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Charles has made this
wonderful broadside

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which you've probably seen
based on a part of this

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so you'll hear that.

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It's a little different here
though, some added things.

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A descent into loggerheads,
an aerial view: they shine.

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They not no, no if or whether.

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On that boat, in or
out of the water,

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kel, keel, not one, not
never, a package, a system,

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several butting up against
each other, grappling.

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Fill, or filling in.

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Trammel, an airline pilot.

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The debt from twosies.

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If, when, and however.

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A novel, if then, clover,
forest, night, bank Dick.

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Mark time.

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Melancholy trailers, these,
then, only, or if hearing.

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Some scum in the mind.

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Little beat up,
starting out, cornball.

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These American kids,
what do they know?

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Cut up.

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Jack time call
it, something made

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on the table, an erasement,
a dual twin engine.

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Get, you can only not
be, well spring water.

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Stringer or something that
takes care of the news.

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Knifes him in the
back in a telephone

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booth, my chopped lamb liver.

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Or no sensible coat.

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A fiver.

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Two bits, four bits,
six bits, a dollar.

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Fish, a former strain.

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Ken John Peel in the morning.

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Sort of jerking out of the door.

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She goes back to sleep.

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Early sporting goods,
stayed up late at a party.

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Rows of dolls.

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A pair of corn.

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Dredging, a large
clamped presence.

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Firestorm.

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In the meantime, waiting around.

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Here, there.

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Only whether or
more upside down.

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That x's it, that proclaims
an unfinished Golgotha.

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These ragamuffins hanging
out on street corners.

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This way I came another day
something like a year ago,

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and there it was
raining then too.

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You know, he knew it so
well he shattered it.

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Said why promote any
expectation at all?

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Why give an inch?

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Crack it over and over.

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Another code and
no place for it.

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Fie.

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Apes aren't suckers.

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Why don't you go for the cake?

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This color blue, not that one.

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Not that light one
but this cobalt blue,

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this thunder and lightning,
this Midwestern storm

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which was a linking
verb, partial rattle.

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A clear and present danger.

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If yelling fire will
get you out of there

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faster go for the water.

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If one discipline leads to
another it already piles up.

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There is more in the
ditches than meets the eye.

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If one and one are two then
there is a whole universe

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to sort out.

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That will always take longer
than the life of the universe

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itself.

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Here, the merry rounds, the boat
embarking, a three-day cruise.

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Anything might
happen but it won't.

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Nothing will happen.

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But what is prepared for?

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Events falling faster
than the thing ahead.

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These were the founding fathers.

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Trouble on the left side
liking to lump, to pile up.

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Everything coming to grief.

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Clearly one must begin again.

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Some things must be
excluded, banished.

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Go off to another kingdom,
live there, make it count.

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To stray within limits.

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It will seem chancy
but some branch

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holds, covered with
powdery snow, mounds.

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Now there can be nothing
left but adjectives.

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This, that will
be, corn, a root,

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a word that is not a word.

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A word taking place,
taking its place,

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it comes in to sit
down at the table,

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lifts its head seeing
what is inside it.

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All this pathetic fallacy.

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This is not a window.

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It is perhaps a mirror,
the mirror most mysterious

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of objects.

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Through a glass, he said and
darkly, nothing in the light.

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Light, light, that illusion
leading on toward something

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cutting into it.

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What is the link?

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A linking verb.

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This is copulative.

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The metaphor.

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This is that, in the
sense that it is summer.

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It is not a person,
place, or thing.

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It is not anything.

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One can suggest the absence,
can lie, it is not there.

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Cutting the ground
out, making it hollow.

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Veritas, poetry, and
truth as fast as possible.

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Shoes standing on
their own laces.

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Something coming
out of the mist.

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Something sparked
a bear coverall.

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Something with wings.

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There were no fire,
or police, no sirens.

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We thought we were asleep
but this dream was going on

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in another direction.

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She thought she was asleep
but she woke saying,

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mountains, the turning point.

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These were all people,
foreign bodies, all at that

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distance we needn't
recognize faces.

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There is no world at all except
the one we make from desire,

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its transformations.

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Spanish impression, a boat in
December, knocked his hat off.

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First order, tributaries,
that system too.

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A three part invention,
a stereo, hand, a leg up.

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Help.

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Help for the aged and the
needy, for widows, and orphans.

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All the older people I
know who are orphans,

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don't they miss it?

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Don't they still
want to be children?

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Now they must take
care of the world.

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Taking care, take care of
the sense and the sound

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will take care of itself.

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But then if there
were no authors,

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there would be no books.

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If there were no machines,
would that be poverty?

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It was in the cards
there at the beginning

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to take care of
itself, generating

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Lapland, other places,
a change of scene,

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a change of direction, right
in the middle of a sentence.

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Do sentences move in directions?

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Do they rather curl up around
themselves and go to sleep?

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Do they rather
coil like a snake?

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Are they little bombs?

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Do they go off?

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Do they show you anything?

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Who can prove it?

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Don't you live there every day?

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It can't be more complex
than the real world.

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A work of art, I'm sorry,
I have another plan.

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Go see a show.

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Ask somebody what time it is.

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Didn't know what time
it was, trying to make

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the wire under the line.

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Something lives
there under the line.

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He couldn't imagine it
turning into anything else.

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The rock bottom.

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There, look at rocks.

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That cliff side or any one
rocks exposed, open to view,

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open a window.

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She said she was a
go between trying

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to bring people together.

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There's a plot.

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If she's there trying to
bring people together,

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three, the swing number,
three the way up letting her

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take care of it.

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Those, they were real.

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What?

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Hustlers, she said.

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To figure the uses,
her sensibilities.

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Cards shuffling and dealing,
a stay of the execution,

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going on out with it.

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Her big pain sentence.

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Getting on with it stumped.

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Now it always turns
out another way.

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If you had planned it, it
couldn't have been nicer.

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Eye sore.

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Icier.

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Crabbed cabbage, limp,
linked in the frying pan.

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A set of motives of
valves, oil the case,

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stay clear of the ramp, be any
other thing which you choose

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or make the choice.

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Something starts in language not
clear already in so many words.

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The machines
organized to organized

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some conspiracy against them.

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Babbling all right.

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On top of it, it was
headquartered in an attic.

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Walking up the
stairs in the dark,

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one hand against the wall.

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What is contiguous
going back in a line?

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Infinite regress, no
beginning, no end of circling.

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Therefore, this is
a work about desire.

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There is a part that is missing.

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If this were known,
one might move

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beyond the pairs of contrasts.

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One note sustained.

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The rainbow is older,
a secondary layer.

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The truth that
trough is a virgin.

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A weedy adventure.

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Flowers which can never be
undone are at the heart of it.

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A ribbon, a piece of
lace, fabricated and laid

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in his hand fading
fast the remnants.

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Now it goes out.

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A fire is more than its
original components.

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The numbers of chemical
operations are enormous.

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His hat knocked off in the wind
when rolling down the hill.

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He bent and ran
after it doggedly.

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One novel like another, though
200 years separate them.

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Another tear falls,
her eyes well.

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Our homeland or one that we
hoped for in spite of all

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we must know.

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Places so widely separated.

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Cottonwoods down by the river.

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There is the river in
all that flat land.

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Seeing it, we mark it,
that clump of trees.

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To destroy a world for
that nostalgia they would.

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They will do it.

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A will imposed.

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