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This will be one of
the last few poems.

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In a Dream, which is
also the first line.

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In a dream at 50, I approach
myself 18 years of age,

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seated despondently on the
concrete steps of my father's

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house, wishing to be gone
from there into my own life.

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And I tell my young self,
nothing will turn out right.

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You'll want to avenge yourself
on those close to you,

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especially.

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And they will want to
die of shock and grief.

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You will fall to pleading,
and tears of self-pity,

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filled with yourself
a passionate stranger.

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My 18-year-old self stands
up from the concrete steps

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and says, go to hell.

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And I walk off.

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