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She does shifts at a bookstore an hour away
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Pays rent on a shoebox-sized flat
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Reads Borges and Dickinson, Poe and Camus
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Keeps tropical fish and a cat

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these simple things still find their way, slowly
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into some place in his thoughts

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from humble notes, all harmonies holy
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a simple fact, somehow forgot

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God, how many years had he hungered
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for this wordless bliss to be felt, to be found?
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And he kissed at her ear as he wondered
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At the wonderful music there sleeping, sound

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