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there is the world dimensional for those untwisted by the love of things irreconcilable
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and the weather bum hips and cholesterol our small talk numbing as a dial tone serious as prayer
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for me i think i speak as i was taught i always see the garden and god there a-making man's wifei always see the garden and god there
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wife see genesis :-: and my lesson learned the value and significance of flesh i can't unlearn ten minutes afterwards
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florentines john the baptist who baptized jesus see matthew also see earlier note saint ambrose who puts down in black and white the convent's friends and gives them a long daysaint ambrose
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bear witness for me wheresoe'er ye be with what deep worship i have still adored the spirit of divinest liberty
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and conquering by her happiness alone shall france compel the nations to be free till love and joy look round and call the earth their own
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the dim boy claps because the others clap the polite word handicapped is muttered in the stands isn't it wrong the way the mind moves back
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score to pitcher fading badly in the heat isn't it wrong to be or not be spastic isn't it wrong the way the mind moves back
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i'm laughing at a neighbor girl beaten to scream by a savage father and i'm ashamed to look the dim boy claps because the others clap
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the score is always close the rally always short i've left more wreckage than a quake isn't it wrong the way the mind moves back
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that never will those on its breast see an ennobling sight drink of the feeling of quiet again
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who are you reader reading my poems an hundred years hence i cannot send you one single flower from this wealth of the spring one single streak of gold from yonder clouds open your doors and look abroad
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god's angels again are for satan forlorn salvation was bought but sin sold in real time
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when i reach inside i am frosted my hand like a pond in winter pale fingers below of leaves or carp
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after it fed the two halves joined the missing ones unmourned all as it was before
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dead and dark for a long time we are as stars to them stars wishing to be wished on
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all the fun wonderful sandy sunny things we do at summerhouse time
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guess who really stole mrs bagwell's ring
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guess what mrs bagwell is doing now
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i hold my hand up whoa one guess at a time please
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and every night who knows (a laughter troubles us like dreams) who skates above peering through the pane
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her body witness is so also is her voice of torment coming from unknown event unclean is the nature and name of the enchantment
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a life is waiting its webbed hand reached out
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fate has written a tragedy its name is the human heart the theatre is the house of life woman the mummer's part the devil enters the prompter's box and the play is ready to start
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but i lie down to a different turbulence and a plan of transformation
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somewhere some angel pities me as god must once have pitied her: her voice forgets its tenement and i neglect the words
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will his strength slay thy worm in hell go to cover thy countenance and watch and fear
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they are all gone away the house is shut and still there is nothing more to say
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through broken walls and gray the winds blow bleak and shrill they are all gone away
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nor is there one to-day to speak them good or ill there is nothing more to say
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iv these fought in any case and some believing pro domo in any case
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the thin clear gaze the same still darts out faun-like from the half-ruin'd face questing and passive
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but that's also the kind of book i like best
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indistinguishable inasmuch as they are countless sire all the unglittering other dropped stones
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with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails clipped them like ends of split hair
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i stand high in the community my name is in who's who people argue about my modesty
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i am of the race of the prematurely desperate in poverty of comfort i lay gunpowder plots i lapse my insurance
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i am the babbitt metal of the future i never read more than half of a book but that half i read forever
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i take my place beside the philistine and unfold my napkin this afternoon i defend the marines i goggle at long cars
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the homosexual lectures me brilliantly in the beer booth i can feel my muscles soften he smiles at my terror
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pitchpots flicker in the lemon groves i gaze down on the plains of hollywood my fine tan and my arrogance my gray hair and my sneakers o israel
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everything i need is in it
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turn turn thy wheel above the staring crowd thy wheel and thou are shadows in the cloud thy wheel and thee we neither love nor hate
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if not for the cat and the scarcity of cheese i could be content
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before i go let me thank the man who mugs you taking your last paycheck thank the boss who steals your tips thank the women who may break you
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but in the darkness and the cloud while israel made their gods of gold altho' the trumpet blew so loud
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at the end of the story when the plague has arrived the performance can begin
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and nobody would commit suicide only to find beyond death bridgeport ohio
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that soft lost near and distant voice i'm happy now i'm happy oh don't move don't go away
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peer at your ceiling where a light dangles hook amp line could be slipping through
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behind me did they stretch in solemn train feebler and feebler and i stood and watched till all was tranquil as a summer sea
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flirt fattened thursday of december's gorge the twelve pigs of the zodiac stew the zeal slow simmering giddy fizzling squeals
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h: i have trouble with no amp know with knew amp new too why do people do that
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h: see you make it hard for a house anyway i don't usually speak
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h: i'd like to climb mountains you can leave me whenever you want but i'm stuck with you
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h: none of your business the sex life of houses isn't known to humans nor will it ever be
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yo-ho-ho would say the sailors for six days while on the shore their women moaned
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they left not footsteps trails in uncut grass like parallel snakes no wonder
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and everywhere sharp palmettos clacked their tongues in homage to language i should have rhymed them with stilettos
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i'm fourteen i'm a wind from nowhere i can break your heart
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and this feels painfully beautiful whether or not it will change the world one drop
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or of its end cries the child hiding himself in the cushions
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when he awakened she was just returning from one of her little trips
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thus in a department store petite impressions might neighbor town square
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that tree makes their own torsion seem natural and so they're comforted
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for compared to my grief for you what are those of kashmir and what are the griefs of the universe when i remember you beyond all accounting o my mother
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domino gloria don john of austria is shouting to the ships
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domino gloria don john of austria has set his people free
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the waking dream's intact the world continues not to change and staying the same changes us
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ugliest little boy that everyone ever saw that is what everyone said
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don't touch me cried the little fairy-like being in the playground
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to celebrate the joyous day when we regained the right to pray to our one god in our own way
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oh i have the sense of infinity but the world sailors is round they say there is no end to it
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drest as though bold robin hood would with his maid marian sup and bowse from horn and can
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we live in wonder blaze in a cycle of passion and apprehension though once we lay and waited for a death
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saw in the lake's heaped frozen waves a new car exhibition restaurant luxury housing
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my ghost is trying its weight on stepping stones look it's peeling off weaned into the asphalt river
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would to god they did so still then i'd 'scape the heat and racket of the good ship lisbon packet
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nothing rhymes in english with an orange it stands alone with luster in a far tinge it stands alone and seems to make a star cringe
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on saturday it's blue like an orange or like a surrealist sight rhyme in a garage nothing rhymes in english with an orange
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but rime riche is rich enough for an orange still my doorman sings put it away in storage it stands alone and seems to make a star cringe
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orange replies: i'm drunk from my last bar-binge half-rhymes like hangovers suddenly impinge but nothing rhymes in english with an orange
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while my wife in french eats one in her nude linge playwrights synge and inge flap forward on a car-hinge it stands alone and seems to make a star cringe
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hue of concrete into each limb a house of blue-ring flames to mimic someone better run
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is it well to wish thee happy having known me to decline on a range of lower feelings and a narrower heart than mine
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what is this his eyes are heavy think not they are glazed with wine go to him it is thy duty kiss him take his hand in thine
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well 't is well that i should bluster hadst thou less unworthy proved would to god for i had loved thee more than ever wife was loved
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where is comfort in division of the records of the mind can i part her from herself and love her as i knew her kind
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overlive it lower yet be happy wherefore should i care i myself must mix with action lest i wither by despair
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can i but relive in sadness i will turn that earlier page hide me from my deep emotion o thou wondrous mother-age
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not in vain the distance beacons forward forward let us range let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change
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that plastic preserve dorsal fin tremulous snap and of brine shrimp's gone
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the quiet next time won't you sing with me those great diminished chords: a girl i know
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i struggled to tell things back from decades gone the mournful american soldier testifying about my lai: i shot the older lady
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and the innocuous-looking cottage in the woods with its lapping tongue of a welcome mat slurped me in
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that placed you in that world and me in this or that misfortune placed these worlds in us
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shall i say i have gone at dusk through narrow streets and watched the smoke that rises from the pipes of lonely men in shirt-sleeves leaning out of windows
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and the afternoon the evening sleeps so peacefully smoothed by long fingers asleep
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she is large and matronly and rather dirty a little sardonic-looking as if domesticity had driven her to it
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