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19 How Things Work I want to make some noise With no sense to it, the way women in movies Sometimes lean hysterically On car horns. Even that would last a limited time only. Things are much more set Than I once imagined. Everyone has A habitual affect: challenge, grief, Quiet judgment. All over, the same planes of weakness Respond predictably To surprise. No one has a “full heart” Except while singing. It’s like the classic version of mental illness— A large, high-ceilinged room, empty of furniture, Where we stroll in a kind of Brownian motion Very like dancing. ...

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