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63 Charybdis I am the crepe de chine of Paris green, rauwolfia, and atropine, I am the shapeless keeper, the restless sleeper, the jeofail of sea-change fictions, I am the desuetude, the nudity, the unanswered cry of ubi sunt, I am the pharaoh ant, the unmet want, the vatic O and armchair throw, I am the malediction, the contradiction, the hollow laugh of shell and call, I am the first refusal, the worst reprisal, the life you haven’t lived in years, I am the haymaker, the trumpet creeper, the desperation rising daily in swales, I am the swan’s road, the oxgoad, the eye of the Ouroboros, I am the ur-version, the cold vision, that old either-or rearing out of the offing, I am the long-robed arrival of self—an adieu in passage—crowned with each small salt conclusion ...

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