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And Therefore I Have Sailed the Seas and Come
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—5 And Therefore I Have Sailed the Seas and Come Everything there was a quotation of itself, “warehouse” and “access road” and “four-door sedan” tainted by images, a kind of soundless puppet opera. The monetary gods stuck in their blank eternity were selling every scrap of seem, an emptiness disguised as beauty, or geography. (The concrete is an obstacle and will be hauled away with all the other storm debris, downed lengths of power line and pine trees for the paper factory.) I stayed awake all night waiting for empire while the radio played Why was I born: arose into this blighted wanderland (arose is not a rose), polluted forest of the shepherd text-2.indd 5 11/22/10 2:07 PM ...