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There's a section in my book
Looking for Holes in the Ceiling

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called "Sympathetic Magic."

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And I'll just read a
couple of poems from that.

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Sympathetic magic is essentially
something like voodoo

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but it's often benign.

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It has not carried with it the
negative connotations always

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that voodoo does.

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That is you might have an
object of someone's and you

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might believe by rubbing
it or doing something

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to it you might affect some
kind of change in that person.

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And the 10 poems in the
sympathetic magic section

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deal with that concept
in various ways.

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I'll read two of them.

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First is called "Lovers."

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"To keep the one you want,
dig up a footprint of hers

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and put it in a flower pot.

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Then plant a marigold, the
flower that doesn't fade,

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and love her.

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If she's distant now, it's
for a reason beyond control.

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So don't tamper with the
impressions left by her body

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when for the last time
she leaves your bed.

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Just smooth them
out and forget her.

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Who is not vulnerable to a
stronger magic the broken glass,

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the bullets in a yawn, the
terrible power of the one less

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in love?"

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