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I read a lot in form.

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So a lot of these are forms.

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They don't have any titles; I've
abandoned titles completely.

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So you can guess where
the new poem begins.

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In the PICU.

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The bow of my right shoelace
falls out, linoleum dragged.

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In the PICU, I count two
minutes between cries

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for sucrose-coated pacifiers.

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Five were occluded TPN, 15
for low oxygen plinth waves.

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Every four hours, pressed
at x, sponge baths daily

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Seven translucent tubes
tunnel, one bilious remover,

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Another respirator shushing
the minutes and hours

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In CC's of weeks we've
measured life by,

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Seated next to a
phalanx of infusers,

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Reading Bulgakov, disheartened
by ingredients needed

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for a vampire named drink,

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A pandemic exacts
itself outside,

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Our hair thickens, curls
in myth and isolation,

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Migraine cries, muted
with sugar water,

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Saguaros beyond the windows--

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Saguaros beyond the
window glass ignore

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us millimeters by millennia.

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1980, I grew the decade with
my mother, wired and incision

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stitched.

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That I'm ineffective
against your hunger,

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I tire, spiral
toward indifference.

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Once I disappeared
to Philadelphia,

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Left for the funeral
of my only grandma,

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Returned to a single
accomplishment roof

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repair during earthquake,

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Green, swirling skies.

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Away,

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Nothing much matters
other than you're here,

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The weeks week.

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Rubberized beds in other units

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Stripped of sheets, you
sleep, and I see you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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