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35 Goodbye and Hello I say goodbye to the mouth I have kissed, to the nose I have rubbed, to the elbows I have pinched, (to those portions that I missed). I say goodbye to the pool so blue, those trees, that aloe, the murky red frog, the uncomfortable couch, the distant moon, the beautiful child, the nip of a dog: the shadows that lifted, and fell, too soon. I say hello to hollowness, I say hello to emptiness; a vacuum I greet, a great big gap in the gaping day. Hello to silence, hello to goodbye to post box, the cranky electric gate: the shadows that lifted, and fell, too late. ...

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