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This one's called "Sentimental."

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It has an epigraph from
Flaubert, who wrote,

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I admire tinsel as much as gold.

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Indeed the poetry of
tinsel is even greater

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because it is sadder.

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"Sentimental."

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For breakfast, loss.

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And the day has just
begun to shuffle

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the cards of its weather.

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Though by now, weather is
only an emblem of loss to us.

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We have our emotions
at the ready for lunch.

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Which is the food of childhood,
on a bed of summer lawn,

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lit by the last instant before
mother called us in for dinner.

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Which then, as now, turns out
to be leftover loss in sauce.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Beautiful mother
in the door frame

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calling us across the
lawns, and alleys,

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and fields rich in
itch inducing weeds.

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Preserve our losses
that we never starve.

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Not before bed, nor the
next morning, not for lunch,

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nor for dinner,
nor even in memory,

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where you call us always home.

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