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1.
You, walking
And walking the woodened

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Nerves, hurled
Like the bush up

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Into flame
For him, for that

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Other
One, to hear. I

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Heard.
I did

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The thing with
My fingers, crouching

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Under the kitchen
Table twisting

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Them into a
You. You, many-

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Knotted, stupidly
Unburnt, undressed many-

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You, you
Cough so loud

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The doorbell rings. 
No one pays

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You for your work.
Space grows 

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More timelike, the kitchen
More shoutlike, the rain

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In the window bigger
And bigger like

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A planet we are
Reaching. You

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Can I call 
You that

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Why do you burn
And never burn

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Up

2.  
                      mother

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Of separated 

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Shoulder walking
And unwalking the length

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Of a daughter. Sentry
Soldier, you
Fell 

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Over the tomb of 
The unknown

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Diagnosis the overgrown
Rhododendron moving

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Violations hundreds
Of those. I heard 

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You’re cured 
Now cured you’re

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Cured therefore not
Yet song 

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In boots nor leaves 
Blown

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In winter’s difficult kitchen
Door. Still

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The verbs gather, wrong

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Formed, heard
By the throat, the attic’s

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Hog-tied storm
We are ashamed

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Of them - go
To the ancient
 
Toilet 
Your clothes
 
Hanger shoulders
I know, you’re sick

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With me