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87 f r o m t e n t m a k i n g s t o n e Comes a sequence after sixty: set them in the earth from the gate to the shed you are beginning to use more. Like the visit to Southwest Guilford County High School in Greensboro, NC. A kid raises his hand seventeen rows back, What’re we doing here? It is 2:25 in the afternoon. I have explained three times that we are writing a quick half-page about some time when we stole something, or went against the rules some way. Then we are going to experiment with speaking those words with the cello. He is quiet for a second. Shiiiiiiii. . . . . He gets up and leaves by the side door. A stone moment is then. You know you will not be walking back in a high school, despite how cold that might sound toward young people and our obligations to them. Still, there is the turn away from those afternoon auditoriums. Your part there is done. You may be back in two years to that very room, but for now it seems through. You do yo own petty theft and play it on dee cello. I put yo cello in dee wello. • • • 88 f r o m t e n t m a k i n g The stone fits finely in the dug-out clay. I tamp loose topsoil for edging and sow the walk with tiny thyme. ...

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