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Let me finish with
three love poems.

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One of them is here, is
not strictly love poem,

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I guess it is.

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It's a poem to my children
and it has an epigraph

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but it's a strange epigraph.

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It's two lines that were in the
poem that were so nice that I

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wanted to save them
but the poem couldn't

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stand to have them in there.

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They were wise lines and not too
many poems can bear wisdom well.

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But I like them nevertheless
so that they're in the epigraph

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of the poem, the poem
is called "Rewrite."

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The lines are, "dying
starts early, my lovelies,

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and with luck you'll
call it life."

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"Our children cannot save us,
though someday we may find

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ourselves in an unfamiliar sea
of sheets, calling their names.

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Our children may reach
down but their arms

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will never be long enough.

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They would surely miss us
even if they dove recklessly

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into their futures where
we are in different orbits.

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And we must not
try to save them,

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we must keep our wisdom to
ourselves when we're sinking,

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our mouths full of
desperate speech,

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and our children above
us in their beautiful,

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ignorant bodies."

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