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And this poem is called Baby.

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It's for a baby who was born and
waited six days for his parents

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to give him a name.

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And I wrote this poem for him
during that six day period.

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It's a kind of a
warning, I think.

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But I hope it's also
a kind of a welcome.

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And it's also for you.

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Baby, inventing certainty
involves the creation

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of a world similar to this one,
where the rain falls, and enters

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the Earth.

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I tell you this because the path
leads to where a gate is closed.

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To where getting food means
something like liberated

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but suffering.

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No, not suffering,
but knowing this ache

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to where your head tightens
against your chest,

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and the world of science if
it comes, comes as a decree.

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Comes vertical, but beautiful.

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Comes silent as a horizon
and under everything.

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Tomorrow, an
alternative, is a woman

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drying her early morning
black and white sea

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things along the pier.

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You enter us here, in this spot
big enough for a newspaper.

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A shy corner, my little one.

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Here we ache where you ache,
in the belly and in the bed.

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Here we skip far ahead of
our lives throwing back

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glances that say, why did we
take so long to love ourselves?

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Your head is wet a palm shadow
in the apartment complex

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where you sleep.

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You remind me that a soul
voluntarily enters Earth,

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undresses memory, and dispenses
her own body in pieces

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through the file.

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I want to tell you
calmly, this isn't drugs.

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Whole committees are
compacting large portions,

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whole barges of bodies down.

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Soft, like palace marble,
far away a jeweled moon.

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I send you a message that
says you are not in a world

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but between some.

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And recommend that you accept
your name and then some.

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Your due.

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