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We used our words.

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We used what words we had.

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This is a sonnet, but that
only cares if you're--

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or that only matters if
you're a poetry nerd.

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We used our words.

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We used what words
we had to weld.

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What words we had we wielded,
kneeled, we knelt and wept.

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We wrung the wet, the sweat.

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We racked our lips.

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We rang for words to
ward off sleep, to warn,

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to want ourselves, to want
the Earth we mouthed it,

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wound our vowels until it fit.

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And fits the Earth we
mounted, roused and rocked.

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We harped.

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We yawned and tried to yap and
tried to fix a fixed we facted

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felt. We fattened, fanfared,
anthemed, hammered,

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felt the word's worth
stagnate, snap in half,

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in heat, the wane, the melt.
What words we'd hoarded halved

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and wholly, porous.

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Meanwhile, tide still
tide, and we still

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washed for sounds
to mark and marked.

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[APPLAUSE]

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