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The brow of a horse in that moment when	A
The horse is drinking water so deeply from a trough	B
It seems to inhale the water is holy	C
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I refuse to explain	D
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When the horse had gone the water in the trough	B
All through the empty summer	E
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Went on reflecting clouds amp stars	F
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The horse cropping grass in a field	G
And the fly buzzing around its eyes are more real	H
Than the mist in one corner of the field	G
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Or the angel hidden in the mist for that matter	E
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Members of the Committee on the Ineffable	I
Let me illustrate this with a story amp ask you all	J
To rest your heads on the table cushioned	K
If you wish in your hands amp if you want	L
Comforted by a small carton of milk	M
To drink from as you once did long ago	N
When there was only a curriculum of beach grass	O
When the University of Flies was only a distant humming	P
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In Romania after the war Stalin confiscated	Q
The horses that had been used to work the fields	R
You won't need horses now Stalin said cupping	P
His hand to his ear Can't you hear the tractors	S
Coming in the distance I hear them already	C
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The crowd in the Callea Victoria listened closely	C
But no one heard anything In the distance	T
There was only the faint glow of a few clouds	U
And the horses were led into boxcars amp emerged	V
As the dimly remembered meals of flesh	W
That fed the starving Poles	X
During that famine amp part of the next one	Y
In which even words grew thin amp transparent	Z
Like the pale wings of ants that flew	A2
Out of the oldest houses amp slowly	C
What had been real in words began to be replaced	B2
By what was not real by the not exactly real	H
Well not exactly but became the preferred	C2
Administrative phrasing so that the man	D2
Standing with his hat in his hands would not guess	E2
That the phrasing of a few words had already swept	F2
The earth from beneath his feet That horse I had	G2
He was more real than any angel	I
The housefly when I had a house was real too	A2
Is what the man thought	H2
Yet it wasn't more than a few months	I2
Before the man began to wonder talking	P
To himself out loud before the others	S
Was the horse real Was the house real	H
An angel flew in and out of the high window	N
In the factory where the man worked his hands	J2
Numb with cold He hated the window amp the light	K2
Entering the window amp he hated the angel	I
Because the angel could not be carved into meat	L2
Or dumped into the ossuary amp become part	M2
Of the landfill at the edge of town	N2
It therefore could not acquire a soul	O2
And resembled in significance nothing more	P2
Than a light summer dress when the body has gone	Q2
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The man survived because after a while	R2
He shut up about it	S2
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Stalin had a deep understanding of the kulaks	J2
Their sense of marginalization amp belief in the land	T2
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That is why he killed them all	J
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Members of the Committee on Solitude consider	E
Our own impoverishment amp the progress of that famine	Y
In which now it is becoming impossible	I
To feel anything when we contemplate the burial	I
Alive in a two hour period of hundreds of people	I
Who were not clich eacute s who did not know they would be	C
The illegible blank of the past that lives in each	U2
Of us even in some guy watering his lawn	Q2
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On a summer night Consider	E
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The death of Stalin amp the slow uninterrupted	V2
Evolution of the horse a species no one	Y
Not even Stalin could extinguish almost as if	W2
What could not be altered was something	P
Noble in the look of its face something	P
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Incapable of treachery	C
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Then imagine in your planning proposals	J2
The exact moment in the future when an angel	I
Might alight amp crawl like a fly into the ear of a horse	J2
And then eventually into the brain of a horse	J2
And imagine further that the angel in the brain	D
Of this horse is for the horse cropping grass	J2
In the field largely irrelevant a mist in the corner	E
Of the field something that disappears	J2
The horse thinks when weight is passed through it	S2
Something that will not even carry the weight	X2
Of its own father	E
On its back the horse decides amp so demonstrates	J2
This by swishing at a fly with its tail by continuing	P
To graze as the dusk comes on amp almost until it is night	K2
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Old contrivers daydreamers walking chemistry sets	J2
Exhausted chimneysweeps of the spaces	J2
Between words where the Holy Ghost tastes just	Y2
Like the dust it is made of	Z2
Let's tear up our lecture notes amp throw them out	A3
The window	N
Let's do it right now before wisdom descends upon us	J2
Like a spiderweb over a burned out theater marquee	C
Because what's the use	J2
I keep going to meetings where no one's there	B3
And contributing to the discussion	Y
And besides behind the angel hissing in its mist	C3
Is a gate that leads only into another field	G
Another outcropping of stones amp withered grass where	B3
A horse named Sandman amp a horse named Anastasia	D3
Used to stand at the fence amp watch the traffic pass	J2
Where there were outdoor concerts once in summer	E
Under the missing amp innumerable stars	J2

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