promises to keep

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i can do these things flawlessly   .

f l              a w    les  s     l          y

i do not have time to be anything

other than swift          and s u    re

i have promises to keep, & m i les

to go before i sle    e                   p

this is not unfamiliar, & you know

cupid has his    b a r b   neither in

my h e    ad  nor my hhh ee a rr rrt

- my invocation for a sudden stitch

. i have come all this   w     a   y  ,

hardly to arrive at the moment of

d   d   d d de  pen   d   en   c   e   ?

it is an end, it is an interim,   it is

beginning, it begins this way, sure

focus, and then flawless. and then

finish. familiar, & finite. the end .

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