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January 28, we were going
to have sex in the stacks.

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We were in the 800s
standing eagerly

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amid the old copies
of the Romantics,

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looking at the thick dark blue
spine of Wordsworth's Collected.

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I thought had the
strength of his knee

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to fully express his unplaced
social being in sentences

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had produced publicly
verifiable beauty.

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So that his subsequent
civic requirements

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seem to have depth enough for
him to become poet laureate.

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And how his later leaden
writing upheld that intensity

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and verifiability only
instead of searching

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wind, and rocks, and
retina for the sentences

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of his social being.

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He chirped his confirmed lofty
perch to other social beings

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in lengthy
claustrophobic hallelujah

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for the present second.

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There are devices for
holding it still long enough

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and he had learned
them rhyme was a burden

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crime was unambiguously
explainable wrong,

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time had snuck
around behind him.

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He had carved his own
anxiety into a throne

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and now he was stuck
on it constantly

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remembering sadder
days when he had wanted

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to be happy with a purity
that made him blink,

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thinking about it from
his frozen vantage.

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He couldn't bear to
look at his past,

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he thought of it as
unbearably edenic.

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Our own more
slippery contrapuntal

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hallelujah as we're planted
in the immediate future, only

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a few buttons zippers and a
little elastic down the road.

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We had first snuck
into the men's room,

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but it had been crowded with
two intensely separate urinals.

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As we turn to hurry
out, you pointed

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at some of the big magic marker
graffiti on the beige tiles.

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"This place needs
a woman's touch"

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was answered by "Finger
my asshole, cunt,"

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which then had been modified by
an arrow indicating that cunt

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was to be moved in front
of asshole: "Finger my cunt

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asshole."

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We were eager to prove
syntax was not mere vanity

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and that bodies could
use it to resist

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the tyranny of elemental words.

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And wouldn't it be nice to
get knowledge and pleasure

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on the same page,
so we'd hurried out

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to the deserted 800s.

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