Going To Alaska

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The jacaranda are wet with color,
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and the heat is a great paint 
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brush, lending color to our lives,
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to the air, and to our faces; but 
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I'm going to Alaska
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where there's snow to suck the 
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sound out from the air.

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Up, yes, in the branches,
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the purple blossoms, go pale at the 
edges;
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there is moaning in the shifting of
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 the sap, and I see in them traces
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of last year, but then they hadn't 
grown so strong,
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and their limbs were more like 
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wires. Now they are cables.
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thick and alive with alien 
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electricity, and I am going to 
Alaska,
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where you can go blind just by 
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looking at the ground,
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where fat is eaten by itself
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just to keep your body warm.

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Because from where we are now, it 
seems, really,
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that everything is growing in a 
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thousand different ways;
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that the soil is soaked through 
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with old blood and with relatives
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who were buried here, or close to 
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here, and they are giving rise
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to what is happening. Or can you 
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tell me otherwise?
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I am going to Alaska, where the 
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animals can kill you,
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but they do so in silence, as though
 if no-one hears them,
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then it really won't matter. I am 
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going to Alaska.
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They tell me that it's perfect for
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 my purposes.

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