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All right.

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So Emily Dickinson is kind of
the patron saint of this book.

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She kind of ghosts in
and out periodically.

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And the reason why is
because I did indeed

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finish reading my book
of Emily Dickinson's poem

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in the oncologist's
waiting room,

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along with a few
other books of poems.

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But this is written if
you are a meter nerd.

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This is written in Emily
Dickinson's ballad meter,

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more or less.

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And if you want to talk
about the title, which

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is extremely nerdy, I'd be happy
to do that after the reading.

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Takes a long time.

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Finishing Emily
Dickinson, First Deacon

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in William Blake's Church of
the Marriage of Heaven and Hell,

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in the Oncologist's
Waiting Room.

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"Oh, Emily, goodbye!

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We met in February
and parted in July--

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I meet your sweet velocity
in every thing that flies--

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in moat and star and sphere--

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in bird and phosphorus of God!

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Oblique, you
preached obliquity--

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your body, steeple for
the Church of Mystery--

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your bell rings on, beyond."

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