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| 1 | --- | ||
| 2 | title: Dead man | ||
| 3 | genre: verse | ||
| 4 | |||
| 5 | project: | ||
| 6 | title: Elegies for alternate selves | ||
| 7 | css: elegies | ||
| 8 | order: 9 | ||
| 9 | prev: | ||
| 10 | title: The boar | ||
| 11 | link: boar | ||
| 12 | next: | ||
| 13 | title: The angel to Abraham | ||
| 14 | link: angeltoabraham | ||
| 15 | ... | ||
| 16 | |||
| 17 | A dead man finds his way into our [hearts][] \ | ||
| 18 | simply by opening the door and walking in. \ | ||
| 19 | He pours himself a drink, speaks aimlessly \ | ||
| 20 | about hunting or some bats he saw \ | ||
| 21 | on the way over, wheeling around each other. \ | ||
| 22 | Look how [they spin][], he says, it's like the \ | ||
| 23 | ripples atoms make as they hurl past each other \ | ||
| 24 | in the space between their bodies. \ | ||
| 25 | We mention the eels at the aquarium, how \ | ||
| 26 | their bodies [knot while mating][]. The dead man \ | ||
| 27 | was a boyscout once, and tied a lot of knots. \ | ||
| 28 | His favorite was the one with the rabbit \ | ||
| 29 | and the hole, and the rabbit going in and out \ | ||
| 30 | and around the tree. The dead man liked it \ | ||
| 31 | because he liked to pretend that the rabbit \ | ||
| 32 | was running from a fox, and the rabbit \ | ||
| 33 | always ended up safe, back in his hole. | ||
| 34 | |||
| 35 | [hearts]: words-meaning.html | ||
| 36 | [they spin]: moongone.html | ||
| 37 | [knot while mating]: spittle.html | ||