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"Poverty is your treasure.

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Do not exchange it
for an easy life."

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Zen proverb.

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"Beginning Again."

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"Now, this is the truth of
that particular fiction,

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sweet angel.

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I mean, she hopes you
don't buy that story,

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all that sweet domesticity,
that tenderness,

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that yielding and sexuality.

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She remembers, for instance,
her father only vaguely,

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the glittering wreckage
of his black hair rinsed

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in oils, the sap
of melting pomade

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that leaked from his sideburns,
which he dabbed with a hankie.

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He inhabited his armchair like
a black cloud, glum, cultivated,

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his temper a downed power line
that fishtailed back and forth

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across their lives--

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lethal hits, near misses.

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To avoid it, they crept for
miles over dangerous passes

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to Ely, my precious.

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They had stolen a car
and were on the run,

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sleeping in a tacky
motel room, cooking

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on a hot plate, terrified
and free at last,

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oh my darling girl,
as you can only

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be when you've become a
fugitive from the domestic life

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and are blessed with nothing
that anyone could want,

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when you are poor, when
you are out of luck,

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and when you are free at last."