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My father once broke a man's hand	A
Over the exhaust pipe of a John Deere tractor The man	B
Ruben Vasquez wanted to kill his own father	C
With a sharpened fruit knife he held	D
The curved tip of it lightly between his first	E
Two fingers so it could slash	F
Horizontally with surprising grace	G
Across a throat It was like a glinting beak in a hand	A
And for a moment the light held still	H
On those vines When it was over	C
My father simply went in ate lunch then as always	I
Lay alone in the dark listening to music	J
He never mentioned it	K
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I never understood how anyone could risk his life	L
Then listen to Vivaldi	M
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Sometimes I go out into this yard at night	N
And stare through the wet branches of an oak	O
In winter realize I am looking at the stars	P
Again A thin haze of them shining	Q
And persisting	Q
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It used to make me feel lighter looking up at them	R
In California that light was closer	C
In a California no one will ever see again	S
My father is beginning to die Something	Q
Inside him is slowly taking back	T
Every word it ever gave him	U
Now if we try to talk I watch my father	C
Search for a lost syllable as if it might	N
Solve everything though he can't remember now	V
The word for it he is ashamed	W
If you think of the mind as a place continually	M
Visited a whole city placed behind	X
The eyes shining I can imagine now its end	Y
As when the lights go off one by one	Z
In a hotel at night until at last	A2
All the travelers will be asleep or until	H
Even the thin glow from the lobby is a kind	X
Of sleep while the woman behind the desk	B2
Is applying more lacquer to her nails	C2
You can almost believe that the elevator	C
As it ascends must open upon starlight	N
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I stand out on the street do not go in	D2
That was our agreement at my birth	E2
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And for years I believed	F2
That what went unsaid between us became empty	M
And pure like starlight that it persisted	G2
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I got it all wrong	H2
I wound up believing in words the way a scientist	I2
Believes in carbon after death	J2
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Tonight I'm talking to you father although	K2
It is quiet here in the Midwest where a small wind	X
The size of a wrist wakes the cold again	S
Which may be all that's left of you me	M
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When I left home at seventeen I left for good	L2
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That pale haze of stars goes on on	M2
Like laughter that has found a final silent shape	N2
On a black sky It means everything	Q
It cannot say Look it's empty out there cold	O2
Cold enough to reconcile	P2
Even a father even a son	Z

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