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I do have to stand up for this.

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Thirst Petition

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For my mother, the Semitic
ghost in white skin

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Among certain continental
American things--

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The paved streets; modern,
integrated men; feelings

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Contracted; and nothing
but parking lot trees

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to shed their bark

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Above the graves of women,
guiding their shades

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Toward the flower's namesake's
goddess who puts to sleep

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Those who perjure,
daughter of Thomas

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And the cloud nymph Electra,

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Is this what it is

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To be raced at the end
of a long line of pricks?

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Iris,

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I open my mouth

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Under your ewer
pouring the Styx.

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