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September 06, 2021

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These are delicious, David. I love the liturgical echo in "For things done, not done. / The time I wasted." And that "sacred" is an anagram for "scared" -- wouldn't Freud have a field day with that? The hint of "The horror! The horror!"

And oh, "We believe that there are two outs, / bottom of the ninth." That's the epitome of the Ne'ilah service, at the end of Yom Kippur, right there. Of course it's existential.

Really, marvelous stuff. Shanah tovah!

A wonderful collab. Wise and funny all at once.

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I left it
on when I
left the house
for the pleasure
of coming back
ten hours later
to the greatness
of Teddy Wilson
"After You've Gone"
on the piano
in the corner
of the bedroom
as I enter
in the dark


from New and Selected Poems by David Lehman

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