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grants and grant’s tomb
call a charge anyway we
have thousands to lose
before the job’s in danger
she walked the streets
there are witnesses who say so
but she was still up there
still listening
snow and gentleness
still dying
and months became
even a year
and then two years
up in the hungry sky
he spoke until he was hoarse
spoke past being hoarse spoke his way
back to health hoarseness
meaning nothing to
a ghost and because she
had forgot that she was alive
and he was not even really there
she made a kind of peace
with life in hell.
