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I'd like to take
a glass of water.

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The review still came out
of my medical experience.

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I wasn't unable to
do so until 1964

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when I wrote the poem called
"Pathology of Colors."

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But perhaps I can begin
by reading this one.

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"I know the color
rose, and it is lovely,

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but not when it
ripens in a tumor;

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And healing greens,
leaves and grass,

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so springlike in limbs that
fester are not springlike.

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I have seen red-blue
tinged with hirsute mauve

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in the plum-skin
face of a suicide.

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I have seen white,
china white almost,

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stare from behind the
smashed windscreen of a car.

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And the criminal, multicolored
flash of an H-bomb is no more

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beautiful than an autopsy
when the belly's opened--

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to show cathedral
windows never opened.

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So in the simple
blessing of a rainbow,

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in the bevelled edge of a
sunlit mirror, I have seen,

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visible Death's artifact like
a soldier's ribbon on a tunic

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tacked."

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