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Those twenty six letters filling the blackboard	A
Compose the dark compose	B
The illiterate summer sky its stars as they appear	C
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One by one above the schoolyard	D
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If the soul had a written history nothing would have happened	E
A bird would still be riding the back of a horse	F
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And the horse would go on grazing in a field the gleaners	F
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At one with the land the wind the sun examining	G
Their faces would go on working	G
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Each moment forgotten in the swipe of a scythe	H
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But the walls of the labyrinth have already acquired	I
Their rose tint from the blood of slaves	F
Crushed into the stone used to build them the windows	F
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Of stained glass are held in place by the shriek	J
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And sighing body of a falling chimneysweep through	K
The baked blackened air This ash was once a village	L
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That snowflake time itself	M
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But until the day it is permitted to curl up in a doorway	N
And try to sleep the snow falling just beyond it	O
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There s nothing for it to do	K
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The soul rests its head in its hands stares out	P
From its desk at the trash littered schoolyard	D
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It stays where it was left	Q
When the window fills with pain the soul bears witness	F
But it doesn t write Nor does it write home	R
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Having no need to having no home	R
In this way in no other	S
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Was the soul gradually replaced by the tens of thousands	F
Of things meant to represent it	O
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All of which proclaimed or else lamented its absence	F
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Until in the drone of auditoriums lecture halls it became	T
No more than the scraping of a branch	U
Against the side of a house no more than the wincing	G
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Of a patient on a couch or the pinched nasal tenor	S
Of the strung out addict s voice	F
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While this sound of scratching this tapping all night	V
Enlarging the quiet instead of making a music within it	O
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Is just a way of joining one thing to another	S
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Myself to whoever it is sitting there in the schoolroom	W
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Sitting there while also being led through the schoolyard	D
Where prisoners are exercising in the cold light	V
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A way of joining or trying to join one thing to another	S
So that the stillness of the clouds the sky	X
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Opening beneath the blindfold of the prisoner the cop	Y
Who leads him toward it toward the blank	Z
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Sail of the sky at the end of the world are bewildered	I
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So that everything in this moment bewilders	F
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Them the odd gentleness each feels in the hand	A2
Of the other how they don t stop walking not now	B2
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Not for anything	G

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