11,967. SO WHAT I MUST DO NOW IS PRODUCE

SO WHAT I MUST DO 

NOW IS PRODUCE

I've only that moment left to do so :

proper typography and pagination

too. What if I die tomorrow, first?

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I will sit me down at a large table

in some foreign town; with a marker

and a hired scribe, and some village

idiot to keep me fed. Or, maybe.

instead of that, some upstate town.

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Where the mountains edge the

fence-lines and the pine trees grow

down to the watery edge of a local

lake. I'd have a 3 room cabin and a

place to stay and a place to make.

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Then tomorrow couldn't come fast

enough  -  I'd be done, it would all

be complete. Festschrifitc warriors

could come visit me  -  those critics

with voracious pens who never stop.

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I could let them be, and feed them

wine and beer and pretzels, until

their fat-bellied souls dropped. Then

I'd be done; and then I would stop.