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In a poverty,

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a raggedness of spirit,

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I need you tonight.

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Your face is in my mind.

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Your teeth, your lips,

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your quick turning to me
when I first wakened on that last morning.

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You said something about people wanting something
and giving it up for a second choice.

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I thought, if you really knew my heart,

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alone and dreaming in the big attic bedroom,

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clinging to my mother in blind adoration
when she and Daddy had their violent arguments,

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shy ... ashamed,

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you would go away.

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But you didn't.

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On a stifling night
in the moon shadows of the linden trees,

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you spoke of humans becoming warped,

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but trees growing strong and sure.

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You said something about people wanting something
and giving it up for a second choice.

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I thought you were being dramatic.

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Now I know you weren't.

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I've told Gene for years I made a mistake.

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I felt it in the apartment in Columbus
the first week we were married.

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He said he knew we wouldn't be
as happy as some couples, but ...

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the honorable thing was to keep trying.

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He's tried,

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with all his heart and mind,

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and with all his trying, he's ...

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nothing.

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A shadow in the night and then too real.

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Maybe,

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I could hear your voice sometimes,

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get your letters mailed from nowhere,

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hide them until I finished my work
and could read them over and over again.

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In ...

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a poverty,

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a raggedness of spirit,

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you said something about people ...

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something about people.