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Pleasure is a profoundly negative experience, my father

was fond of saying underwater. His body was carried out

like a wish. We paid our last respects

as rent. The mere possibility of apology allows me to express

my favorite wreck as a relation between stairs

and stars. I take that back. To sum up, up

beyond the lamp’s sweep, where a drip installed by heat

still drips—some tender timbers. At thirteen, I had a series

of dreams I can’t remember, although I’m sure

that they involved a rape. I’m brutal because I’m naked,

not because I’m named, a distinction

that the scientific and scholarly communities,

if not the wider public, should be expected to maintain.

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