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In retrospect I'd been waiting
For years, never speaking.
Never needing to learn. I listened

In solitude, what happiness? asks Adam,
   with all of Paradise before him, for him.
The birds of the air, the beasts of the field,

As Golden Gate Park lies sunken in sea fog
concealing in heaps of sodden brown leaves
beer cans, condoms, a soccer ball,

On the 17th day, Noah's wife went to the window
and saw only water and knew the world was lost.

On the 20th day, Noah's wife went to the window

Irretrievably girl in other words
      ashamed pear-shaped earnest canary
has just about licked up her past

First my books grew stiff
brass clasps like the books monks read.

A hush enshrouded them. They were

as was proven 
when they entered the house 
in which the priest was, 

Here is a common heresy:
Things are Bleak.

All right we can’t repeat the past
don’t want to bones are in the grass

menorah’s Arab cousin, flares from manarat,
or lighthouse, in whose heart is harbored nar.