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This is Lord Randal.

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"Take down my books,
mother," the song says.

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And I hear sound rain
across the sacred tablets.

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Graffiti between
music and speech.

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Take them down for
I am alive today

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with keys under my fingers.

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The computer, a gray toy.

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Semi-automatic code
behind the plastic

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spraying a lichen like display.

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Autonomous wash of
power down the drain,

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prismatic, pissed away to
ease the painful suture

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where the tip of the tongue
meets the tip of the iceberg.

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Language drowning the
minute it's at rest.

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Before I could read,
I heard you more

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earnestly than any poetic maker
sore foot in the snowy heights

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pursuing the self
ape-like, alp-like.

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I mean, let the pines
do what they want.

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Squirrels leap, clouds work
on their memoirs all day.

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Still, will never
undo artificial life.

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And I hear something
similar happened

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to you, and to your you,
and to her before that.

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All the way back to the history
bogs, where stenographers lie,

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waiting and writing
degrees zero.

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Take them all down.

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They won't stay on the
shelves anywhere anyway.

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Some are blankets some
are bars some are sunlight

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all bodies helplessly forward.

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In the other poem, you
wiggle your can crazily,

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signifying America and
William Carlos Williams,

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making music in a gender desert.

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Modernism's big adventure is
still in print on matchbooks,

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and corporate
towers and education

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in management distances.

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It holds mirrors
up to men in cars,

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women in floodlit
anorexia, with customers

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paying for the pleasure
of buying cheap.

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Meaning a dog following
masters, living after hours

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in whatever local dog house.

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A meaculpa inside each command.

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Flash floods leaving the
syntax damp, pliable,

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but the dead resistant as sand.

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For now, motion is permanent.

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Automatic writing, floundered
wills passed each moment."

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