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Well, I have time for maybe
one poem and a little song.

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This is about love in the
sense that we believe what

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we see and miss what's there.

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It's called Blinded by Seeing.

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"I was lying on the deck of
a ship with my eyes closed.

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Off to the left,
the women's voice--

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I was lying on the deck
with my eyes closed.

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Off to the left the women's
voices began to change.

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The voice of one
pushing the others.

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She sang bits of old
songs idly, laughing,

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as though not noticing.

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She began to clap, accentuating
the singing, crying out.

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Her laugh became a gypsy
laugh, though I could

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hear the shyness underneath.

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I could hear how
she was as a girl

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when the men would have urged
her on until she danced,

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dazzling the whole village.

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But these women were silent.

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The men nearby went
on playing cards.

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And she gradually stopped.

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Later, when I went
for tea, I walked back

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that way to see her spirit
in its full-breasted body.

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But there was only a group
of ladies in black, each

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just like the other."

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