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Jane's my best friend, in a
world where we're both blessed

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with several best friends.

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This first poem
I'll read is a list

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of gifts for a
list of recipients.

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And the potatoes are for
you, and the rock at the end

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is yours.

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"Three potatoes for the
boys who would drill

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imperceptibly into the
sun, a substantial lunch.

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For the Pentagon
official who suggested

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that when the day
comes we should all

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be prepared to hide under
a lilac bush, a lilac bush.

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For the woman who waited 12
years for her husband to rub her

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one inch lower, and a
little lighter, 12 more,

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a little lighter.

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For the moth canvassing
the plastic bag

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preserving three potatoes, a
pickaxe, and the master plan.

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For the mind in navy
blue controlling the hand

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on the knuckled
throttle, its due pause.

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For the girl in braces
with the doll in braces,

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her own smile, a cake
the size of this room.

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For the cake the size of
this room, an aerial view.

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For a six-story house of cards
built on Saturday by two boys

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at a resort by the sea, for
the boxes of black raspberries,

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for the boys by the sea, for
the yellow black-eyed Susans,

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for the copper mushrooms,
glass, and ants scattered,

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for the quick speed rush of
color, grasshoppers' shadow,

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and onyx drum roll in the
belly, for 25 boxcars,

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buckled and turning into a
stand of eucalyptus breaking,

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finally into the sinus
of the perpetual town,

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the heat of the rock you
carry from the sudden rain."

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