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So, I was sitting in blue chair reading Kunitz:

When I stand in the center of that man's madness,

Deep in his trauma, as in the crater of a wound,

My ancestors step from my American bones.

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The impossible creatures of an hysteriac's dream

Advancing with hatchets sunk into their skulls

To rip the god out of the machine

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Now I wait under the hemlock by the road

For the red-haired postman with the smiling hand

To bring me my passport to the war.

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Around the curve; he coasts up my drive; the day

Strikes noon: I think of Pavlov and his dogs

And the motto carved on the broad lintel of his brain:

"Sequence, consequence, and again consequence."

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No, David you were not alone and it's only the postman, no need to be alarmed.

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'The only way to avoid getting crushed by absurdity, is to humbly include the absurd in our calculations.'
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