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This poem is called
"Big Mood Swing."

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"For the last few weeks,
I haven't refused any, not

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a single feeling--

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not one.

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I haven't failed to bow
toward each for hours,

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to speak enormously
with each for at least

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the minimum minutes.

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And didn't my feelings
do the same in return?

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Wasn't it a tender and
brotherly translation?

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I wore the sweater
my father gave me.

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Weeping, I stood near
the cargo hangars

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daydreaming a woman, her
skin, her pale arms bare,

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her cool surprising
skin at the beginning

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of spring, its zealous style.

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So many feelings, and
as usual, sometimes,

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too many, and many confusions.

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I danced as ecstatic and
hopeful as a cartoon, or afraid,

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some nights worried
I might fail.

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But the alarm always
rang, so I woke in time

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to hate a plastic bag
caught in the crown

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of a poplar, this
bag that refused

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to be torn apart by wind.

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It was my anger the bag
fought, my resentment

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against the black and red
Stop and Shop lettering,

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the weekly meat and
poultry special,

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the sober photos of
unsuspecting children

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who'd been lost or stolen.

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I couldn't exempt myself or
skip out and act derelict.

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But because it smelled
like April, April in Chile,

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there were pears to taste again.

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In the streets, I saw
sunlight on the smoked glass

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of limousines, the rivalry
of a lesser sun with greater.

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And there were sudden
showers, soundless knives,

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even a fireman wearing
fur, his singing.

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Or was that singeing?

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And after all that, I still
can't tell you who I am,

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though I can imagine
his greeting,

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and how it sounds much
as these words would

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if they were whispered by
two people exchanging rings

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before they turned to the
crowd, and over the mortgaged

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green and muddy fields,
waved their hands."

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That's a wedding of some sort.

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