119 20 14 
      
			 
			
			
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				Your cheekbones startled me, sharp and prominent 
					
				 
				
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1232 5 3 
      
			 
			
			
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				only thoughts lost in lonely trails of red 
					
				 
				
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1152 4 1 
      
			 
			
			
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331 2 1 
      
			 
			
			
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				Sometimes everything becomes  as meaningless as a blonde woman with   sunglasses.  Still, there is something   reassuring  about the blonde woman with   sunglasses,     as she sits there alien  to any regime,  while I build my new empire  of vanilla ice cream,  so… 
					
				 
				
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1374 8 7 
      
			 
			
			
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				How many shadows in your soul? Close your eyes, my love, let me / make you blind as the wings of a drenched, drowned bee. 
					
				 
				
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873 5 5 
      
			 
			
			
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				The phenomena of this water
formed the first definite link
in that vast chain of apparent miracles
with which I was destined
to be at length encircled. 
					
				 
				
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1877 16 13 
      
			 
			
			
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				I am a purveyor of leeches. All my
friends are purveyors of leeches.
We meet weekly to compare our wares. 
					
				 
				
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1723 24 15 
      
			 
			
			
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				Put down your bazooka, Marianne. 
					
				 
				
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1646 18 13 
      
			 
			
			
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				My uncle looks into the bleached eye of his cat and asks
     "What happened to my ear?"
The meerkat’s eye replies:
     "You had cancer. Remember?
They had to cut off your ear to save you." 
					
				 
				
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1081 2 1 
      
			 
			
			
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				later still
wine parties with cucumber
red and rich 
					
				 
				
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1701 12 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				all / the secret letters/ ever dreamed up  
					
				 
				
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1422 17 12 
      
			 
			
			
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				There are 1.45 million readers
of poetry in the US and
2.9 million poets. The odds
of an audience are bad.  
					
				 
				
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141 12 11 
      
			 
			
			
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				in his hands, in the music, / in darkness between recording // and this room 
					
				 
				
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1283 5 4 
      
			 
			
			
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				She is alone in the ocean 
					
				 
				
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1281 4 2 
      
			 
			
			
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				Feeding you a taste of croissant 
					
				 
				
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