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 6. why as in Wherefore. Motives. Causes that produce unasked-for effects. (Who shall live . . .) As in reproach. Fistshaking at sky. At your loverother . Maker. (Who shall die . . .) Resist: Why couldn’t he have been elsewhere? For what reason did I have to lose you? Paradigm of unanswerables. As if thinking it through pieced the puzzle / lessened the ire On account of which / in spite of new virus discovered. Or exiles’ dream-desire. Attaches to who. Emboldens what. And where did she. And when. Never back where you started from. Secret cause. Works around the kiss. Beetles brows. Opens the oh-my-god mouth into an afterimage of oh no . . . yes. Editorials on the soul. Accounts for wars and local turf skirmishes in the sandbox, the West Bank. Island no one wants until the other side sends in tanks. That’s mine. My Temple Mount. / My mosque.  Call it the key to an unbuilt room you discovertoo late you may not enter by asking. ...

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