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This poem is in
envelope quatrains.

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I don't write too much in
fixed forms rhyme and meter.

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Envelope just means
A-B-B-A. Like an envelope,

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it folds it in.

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I think that this was the
first one in this book

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that I wrote that
is in a fixed form.

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I think I wrote it
that way because it

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has very few objects in it and
I wanted to try to shore it up.

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Consider a Move.

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I wrote it when someone
who I cared a lot about

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was having a difficult time and
calling me up long distance.

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Consider a Move.

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The steady time of being unknown
in solitude without friends

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is not a steadiness
which sustains.

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I hear your voice
waver on the phone,

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haven't talked to
anyone for days.

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I drive around.

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I sit in parking lots.

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The voice zeros through
my ear and waits.

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What should I say?

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There are ways to meet
people you will want to love.

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I know of none.

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You come out stronger
having gone through this.

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I no longer believe
that, if I once did.

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Consider a move, a change,
a job, a new place to live,

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someplace you'd like to be.

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That's not it, you say.

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Now time curves back.

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We almost touch.

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Then what is?

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I ask, what is?

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