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I Imagine the Gods.

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I imagine the gods saying--

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I imagine the gods saying
we will make it up to you.

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We will give you three wishes.

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Let me see the squirrels
again, I tell them.

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Let me eat some of the great
hog, stuffed and roasted

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on its giant spit,
and put out steaming

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into the winter
of my neighborhood

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when I was usually too broke to
afford even the hundred grams

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I ate so happily
walking up the cobbles,

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past the street of the moon,
and the street of the birdcage

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makers, the street of
silence, and the street

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of the little pissing.

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We can give you wisdom, they
say in their rich voices.

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Let me at least--

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let me go at last
to Hugette, I say.

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The Algerian student
with her huge eyes,

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who timidly invited
me to her room when

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I was too young and bewildered
that first year in Paris.

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Let me at least fail at my life.

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Think, they say patiently.

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We could make you famous again.

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Let me fall in love one
last time, I beg them.

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Teach me mortality, frighten
me into the present,

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help me to find the
heft of these days

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that the nights will be full
enough and my heart feral.

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