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"Rat Among the Pines"

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Terror, tonight

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Is the moon

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Slipping from a
rat's gray grasp,

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Finding its way back

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Into the sky, which is America-

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A white moon

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Leaning on the night's neck

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With its hands in its pocket,

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Moon hung calm above

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Catastrophe, the police

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Breaking the neck of a man

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Who had just brushed summer's

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First bead of rain from his eye-

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Lashes.

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Who-knocking a Newport

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Against a wrist, watching smoke

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Break its head against a brick

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Wall-is preparing to die,

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Unaware they are
preparing to die.

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Heavy the moon,
silly the tasking

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of a rat with delaying death.

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Terror, tonight

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Is the candor of the earth

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Where someone is
preparing to die

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And the Earth receives its dying

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That dying

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With its hands in its pockets.

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And the moon that
once burnt the silk

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Hump of a rat, back in the sky.

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And my daughter
hiding in the rose

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Bushes, asking who, who sirens

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Have come to kill.

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And someone calling

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It beautiful-Summer, Moon-

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And someone dying
beneath that beauty,

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Which is America.

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