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I'll just read a few more.

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This poem is-- it's
called "Death Canoe."

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"Surprised by blood passing,
a large clot for morning.

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Surprised later on in the day
by the ice cold commitment

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to dispersal, in
which I am drowning.

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It's true a grave site wants and
there's nothing to go back to.

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And in this sense alone,
I'm after something.

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The pitch of a nameless
stream where we dumped

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pitted bones, a part
of everybody's story,

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and now a part of mine.

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I saved a handful
without knowing why.

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And now I'm afraid, will
they continue to decay?

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Have I ill-treated them, left
them like wine in the sun?

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You know, I would
drink it anyway,

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the curdle, the pitted
bones in fresh water.

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After you slice up the
greens, and the reds,

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and all the fancy mushrooms,
then we say grace and commence.

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And after eating, we fall
back on our pillows and talk

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of times when the
stars were insane,

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children, messengers,
dalliances of light

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could be already dead
light, and we, the dupes.

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The dupes don't mind
a good night to die,

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a pitch black ride through
the Indian countryside,

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the driver slapping
on and off his lights,

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freezing the women with
bundles along a road,

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or a descent down a
mountain in Spain,

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straddling sangria,
and Patricia,

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and two wide dusty lanes.

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But by morning,
everything has changed.

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And it's America, over
and over and over again.

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I pour the old wine
down the drain,

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hoping it hasn't lodged or
scarred, before I become,

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or before we become, or
before more clots mark

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the wetness of our days.

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On Sunday, we napped.

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We just dropped off, blown
out by the bars of sun.

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You were there, and I was there.

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And I wasn't unhappy,
and I wasn't scared.

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And I want you to know I
conducted a war for this, a war

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to lose my life.

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And I lost it.

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I lost it.

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I reduced it to a death canoe,
and it still came out as life."

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