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TONIGHT THE INCALCULABLE STARS Tonight the incalculable stars have me thinking of Catullus and his Lesbia, who began counting once and could not stop until every schoolchild's tongue pronounced their kisses interminable, stumbling through memorized passion past ancient, jealous crones— the old arithmetic of love, got down by heart, the hard way, in a foreign tongue, too young. 2 7 ...

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