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Always Be Closing Liam told us	B
abc of real estate used cars	C
and poetry Liam the dandy	D
loved Brooks Brothers shirts double breasted	E
suits bespoke shoes and linen jackets	F
On the day Liam and Tree married	G
in our backyard Liam and I wore	H
Chuck's burgundy boho prep high tops	I
that Liam bought on Fifth Avenue	J
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When the rain started we moved indoors	K
and Liam read a Quartet aloud	L
T S Eliot turned old and frail	M
at sixty pale preparing for death	N
Then poets of new generations	O
died Frank O'Hara first then Jim Wright	P
with throat cancer in a Bronx hospice	B
Sylvia Plath beside the oven	Q
Thom Gunn of an overdose Denise	R
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Levertov Bob Creeley Jane Kenyon	Q
In a New York bar Liam told me	D
eccentric affectionate stories	S
about a road trip in Tree's country	D
of Montana and the joy they felt	T
in the abundance of their marriage	U
At Bennington Tree said Fourteen years	V
after the wedding in your backyard	W
I love Liam with my entire heart	X
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Liam's face changed quickly as he spoke	Y
eyes and mouth erupting with gusto	Z
as he improvised his outrageous	B
cheerful inventive obscenities	S
When I first met him I expounded	E
at a young poet's do his bearded	E
face was handsome and expressionless	A2
He would not defer to a poet	B2
fifty years old After a few months	C2
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he was revising my lines for me	D
making the metaphors I couldn't	D2
Even now working at poems I	E2
imagine for a moment Liam	F2
disassembling them A year ago	Z
he watched the progress of age turn me	D
skeletal pale flesh hanging loosely	D
in folds from my arms and thin rib bones	G2
like grates above a sagging belly	D
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His body would never resemble	H2
my body Four or five times a week	I2
we wrote letters back and forth talking	J2
about class structure about how Tree	D
took charge over the Academy	D
of American Poets about	K2
poems and new attacks on free speech	L2
When I won a notorious prize	M2
Liam sent me eighty one notions	O
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about projects I might undertake	N2
Number fifty six instructed me	D
Urge poets to commit suicide	O2
His whole life he spoke of suicide	O2
lightly when he wasn't preserving	J2
the First Amendment from Jesse Helms	P2
or enduring two colon cancers	Q2
or watching films or chatting with Tree	D
or undergoing heart surgeries	S
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If he walked their dog Keeper one block	R2
he had to take nitroglycerin	Q
When Jane was dying Liam and Tree	D
drove up to say goodbye I wheelchaired	O2
Jane to a pile of books by her chair	S2
to find the color plate of Caillebotte's	S
shadowy kitchen garden at Yerres	S
for the jacket of Otherwise when	T2
Tree would design it I think of Jane's	S
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horror if she were alive to know	Z
that on August fifteenth Liam pulled	O2
the shotgun's trigger The night before	H
wearing a tux over a yellow	Z
silk shirt he danced with Tree once again	T2
before bed and the morning's murder	U2
He left Tree alone and desolate	O2
but without anger Tree knew Liam	F2
did what he planned and needed to do	O2

Donald Hall

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