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This is a poem.

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It's about that summer
when there was such a heat

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wave in the Pacific Northwest
that the water got really,

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really warm and
inhospitable to life.

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It's called "Die
Off off Vancouver."

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"The heat wave killed,

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Baked the mussels

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in the shallow Pacific tides.

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Peace, mussel,
metaphors, I guess

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Offering up ironic
wince, real grief.

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Our longings in conflict with
each other leave a stink.

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Withered sea star

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With your broken
purple arms or points.

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No one intended this.

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And mostly, no one sees
what even happened.

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Our imaginations hardly bother.

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You could be a
cookie lying there,

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Photographed not on a beach

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But in a pastry case

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Delicacy.

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Intimacy.

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Apostasy.

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MC.

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Lega.

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Pyra.

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Falla.

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Immedia."

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