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But maybe I'll read
you another poem.

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What do you think of
this back and forth?

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Is it OK?

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Yeah, woo!

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Yay!

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[LAUGHS]

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This is another untitled
poem from that cycle.

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I think actually, it's
going to be published soon

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with the title, A Season in
the Dark, a short sonnet.

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A stone faced man sits
in a folding chair

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at the edge of his lawn.

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He's facing out toward the
street, where the threat awaits.

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He glares at me as if I am
the threat, or the promise

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of the war he will be
forced to wage, the war he

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has been promised to win.

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He resembles the old man who
sat behind the wheel of my son's

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school bus for a
time, inscrutable

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what he held in mind,
in check to himself,

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and beneath the effort of words.

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Everyone, everyone is a slick
seed dropped in the Earth,

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and left for a
season in the dark.

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I want to tell him,
sleep well brother.

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Soon we will be weeds
or flowers together.

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[CHEERING]

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