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title: Dead man
id: deadman
genre: verse
project:
title: Elegies for alternate selves
class: elegies
order: 9
prev:
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link: boar
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- title: The angel to Abraham
link: angeltoabraham
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| A dead man finds his way into our [hearts][]
| simply by opening the door and walking in.
| He pours himself a drink, speaks aimlessly
| about hunting or some bats he saw
| on the way over, wheeling around each other.
| Look how [they spin][], he says, it's like the
| ripples atoms make as they hurl past each other
| in the space between their bodies.
| We mention the eels at the aquarium, how
| their bodies [knot while mating][]. The dead man
| was a boyscout once, and tied a lot of knots.
| His favorite was the one with the rabbit
| and the hole, and the rabbit going in and out
| and around the tree. The dead man liked it
| because he liked to pretend that the rabbit
| was running from a fox, and the rabbit
| always ended up safe, back in his hole.
[hearts]: words-meaning.html
[they spin]: moongone.html
[knot while mating]: spittle.html
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