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Then the poems get
personal and domestic.

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Plague Time Ritual I. We no
longer leave the apartment.

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We cook or order in
and eat amply together.

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I make a pleasing borscht.

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He a pleasing French onion soup.

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Together we dance the long
married kitchen dance.

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He is slowly, steadily
losing weight.

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He jokes that he will not die.

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He will grow smaller and smaller
until I can carry him around

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in a teacup, exhibit
him to my friends.

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There are a number of
poems in this book in which

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my husband makes jokes.

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That's one of them.