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This is a love poem about
love and its importance.

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Why the mouth?

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Why is it the mouth we put to
the mouth, the final moment?

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Let me take this out, so
I can see all of the poem.

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The Border Inside Us.

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Why the mouth?

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Why is it the mouth we put to
the mouth at the final moment?

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Why not the famous groin?

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Because the groin is far away.

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The mouth is close
up against the soul.

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Before setting out
for years in prison,

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men coupled
desperately all night,

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but that is the body's goodbye.

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We kiss the person we love, last
thing before the coffin is shut,

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because it is our being
touching something unknown.

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A kiss is the
frontier inside us.

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It is where the courting becomes
the courtship, where the dancing

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ends and the dance begins.

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The mouth is our chief access
to the intimacy in which she

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may reside, her
mouth is the door

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of the brain, the forecourt of
the heart, the way to a mystery

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enthroned where we
meet momentarily

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amid the seraphim and the power.

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