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This is a poem
called '"Burglary."

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"The family will hate
most the way privacy

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itself seems to have
been stolen, and ease,

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and deepest sleep.

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What is that noise?

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An owl thrashing the mouse
fluff from its talons,

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a spot of blood, like a
cast mark above its beak.

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A dog loping a slant
across the yard, something

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that slurs in the wall.

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Membranes, the locked windows
pass things through, both ways.

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The neighbors sleep less well.

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And one shuns her
cellar for a week,

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but it's the smell like a
packet of ripped open yeast

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and its spoils a
family wanted to own

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and nobody wants to steal.

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Another neighbor
sits down to write,

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needing to know the
name of something

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he can't say without a name.

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The way when we first
wake we look a little

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blurred and shapeless,
and by shaking off

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those waters become unique and
familiar to ourselves again,

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inhabitants of our names.

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The man writing
stops for a minute,

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he doesn't yet have the name,
but a better reason to need it.

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He continues to write.

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That's why writers
call it working.

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From above, the neighborhood
looks brighter tonight

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than usual.

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Some of these lights,
as burglars would know,

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burn to fool burglars.

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A light burns where
a man is riding.

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One cellar light's been
on for a week by now.

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Though, we can't see it from
up here, nor know how we know

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it's burning.

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