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That's more or less what he is,
and then he wrote a poem about

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what he wasn't.

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That way you could immediately
dispel all your critics.

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Think these couple of
steps ahead of them.

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And I'm Not the Great Diver.

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And tomorrow, someone
will say, but this poet

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has never descended
to the sea bottom,

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neither has he dug
into the packed Earth

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of the badgers and the moles.

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He has not inspected
underground passages,

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nor traveled through
the dark veins of wood,

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nor pierced the flesh,
nor penetrated the bone.

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He hasn't come down the
intestines and the viscera,

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nor has he strained them
through the arterial channel,

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nor navigated with
the Spirochaeta

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through the blood to nibble
at the frozen heart of men.

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But he saw the worm
in the tree top,

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the cloud of locusts in
the country's steeple,

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the red stagnant holy waters,
the yellow midday prayers,

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the green spittle
on the deformed lips

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of the epileptic sextons.

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He saw the toad in the cupola,
the moth on the altar table,

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the termite in the ark, and the
weevil and the bishop's miter.

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He saw the crooked eye and
the wink from the archbishop,

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and said, the light is
drowning in the dry shadow

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inside the well, and it must
be saved by a rope of tears.