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This poem is called "The
Posture of Departure."

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"I was looking for
clues, pictures

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from someone else's wedding,
phone numbers on baby

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blue Post-Its, her blondness,
her tallness, some song lists.

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Then you come around and
say, let's make love proper,

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if it'll stop you from
snooping around like this.

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I say, if you can't
kill it, notice it.

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It's an attractive morning.

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What I mean is I'm
attracted to it.

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Fuchsia flowers
hang from the wire.

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The day kind of plops
out like tuna from a can.

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Nothing's quite of this
century, not this bodice,

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nor all this fresh air, nor
she and her pale yellow kimono

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wanting attention
and not getting it,

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making those cruddy accusations.

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I forget them now, just as
I've forgotten the taste

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of expensive chocolate.

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You can hug a dead body, but you
won't get much from it, maybe

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a whiff of the mobile virus.

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You're better off choosing your
fetters, and I choose arms."

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