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I'd like to read three
autobiographical poems, much

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later ones.

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A short one, I call Mysteries,
14 lines, not a sonnet.

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At night, I do not know
who I am when I dream,

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when I am sleeping.

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Awakened, I hold my
breath and listen.

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A thumbnail scratches the
other side of the wall.

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At midday, I enter
a sun-lit room

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to observe the lamp
light on for no reason.

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I should know by now that
few octaves can be heard,

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that the vision dies from
being too long stared at, that

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the whole of recorded history
even is but a little gossip

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in a great silence, that
a magnesium flash cannot

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illuminate for one single
moment the invisible.

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I do not complain.

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I start with the visible and
am startled by the visible.

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