<excerpts from tate's "the seeing-eye people">
2006-08-16.2:28 p.m.


excerpts from "The Seeing-Eye People"
James Tate


And lend them
the courage as their
kind has so often
lent us to awaken
each day to the
impenetrable darkness
and still find
an excuse to jump

from one grave into
another.



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names are often sad