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Interesting that I have to live with my skeleton	A
It stands prepared to emerge and I carry it	B
with me this other thing I will become at death	C
and yet it keeps me erect and limber in my walk	D
my rival	E
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What will the living see of me	F
if they should open my grave but my bones	G
that will stare at them through hollow sockets	H
and bared teeth	I
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I write this to warn my friends	J
not to be shocked at my changed attitude	K
toward them but to be aware	L
that I have it in me to be someone	A
other than I am and I write to ask forgiveness	M
that death is not wholesome for friendships	N
that bones do not talk have no quarrel with me	F
do not even know I exist	O
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A machine called skeleton will take my place	P
in the minds of others when I am dead	Q
among the living and that machine	R
will make it obvious that I have died	S
to be identified by bones	G
that have no speech no thought no mind	T
to speak of having let themselves be carried	U
once around in me as at my service	M
at the podium or as I lay beside my love	V
or when I held my child at birth	W
or embraced a friend or shook a critic's hand	X
or held a pen to sign a check or book	Y
or wrote a farewell letter to a love	V
or held my penis at the bowl	Z
or lay my hand upon my face at the mirror	A2
and approved of it	B
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There is Ignatow it will be said	Q
looking down inside the open grave	B2
I'll be somewhere in my poems I think	C2
to be mistaken for my bones but There's Ignatow	Q
will be said I say to those who persist	Q
just read what I have written	A
I'll be there held together by another kind	Q
of structure of thought and imagery	F
mind and matter love and longing tensions	D2
opposite such as the skeleton requires	E2
to stand upright to move with speed	Q
to sit with confidence my friend the skeleton	A
and I its friend shielding it from harm	F2

David Ignatow

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