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There is a section in my library for death	A
and another for Irish history	B
a few shelves for the poetry of China and Japan	C
and in the center a row of imperturbable reference books	D
the ones you can turn to anytime	E
when the night is going wrong	F
or when the day is full of empty promise	G
	-
I have nothing against	H
the thin monograph the odd query	B
a note on the identity of Chekhov's dentist	I
but what I prefer on days like these	J
is to get up from the couch	K
pull down The History of the World	L
and hold in my hands a book	M
containing nearly everything	N
and weighing no more than a sack of potatoes	O
eleven pounds I discovered one day when I placed it	P
on the black iron scale	Q
my mother used to keep in her kitchen	R
the device on which she would place	S
a certain amount of flour	T
a certain amount of fish	U
	-
Open flat on my lap	V
under a halo of lamplight	P
a book like this always has a way	W
of soothing the nerves	X
quieting the riotous surf of information	R
that foams around my waist	P
even though it never mentions	Y
the silent labors of the poor	Z
the daydreams of grocers and tailors	A2
or the faces of men and women alone in single rooms	B2
	-
even though it never mentions my mother	T
now that I think of her again	C2
who only last year rolled off the edge of the earth	D2
in her electric bed	P
in her smooth pink nightgown	C2
the bones of her fingers interlocked	P
her sunken eyes staring upward	P
beyond all knowledge	E2
beyond the tiny figures of history	B
some in uniform some not	P
marching onto the pages of this incredibly heavy book	M

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