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So for a while, I started
writing poems in response

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to the stock crisis that took
their titles from the closing

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number of the Dow Jones
Industrial average on the day

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that I was working the poem,
and making the notes that

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would make the poem.

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There's a whole procedure
I won't get into now.

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But the title of this
poem is October 14th.

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The Dow closes up 10,015.

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So it was written a while ago.

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Don't panic.

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And it's about a moment we
were trying to start a family.

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I bleed a little, peyote tea
waits in the refrigerator,

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a Ferris wheel spins
and spins at the fair,

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after the miscarriage we search

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for rings with missing
stones, unmatched earrings,

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sell our gold, ride
the Ferris wheel bigger

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than the one in Paris,

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my parents pray for us, I
play Dylan's "Spanish Boots"

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over and over, watch a
sunroof fill with night,

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like seeing a film
of people I recognize

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but don't really know,

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Schuyler says you
can't get at sunset

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listing colors, between the
liars' trees and shopping carts

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we buy a house,
cry in bed, leave

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the child unnamed

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pink lemon pearly blue white

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