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Oblivion Speaks

 
by Sarah Manguso

I am not here to ruin you.
I am already in you.
I am the work you don’t do.
I am what you understand best and wordless.
I am with you in your chair and in your song.
I am what you avoid and what you stop avoiding.
I am what’s left when there is nothing left.
Love me hard, pilgrim.






Copyright © Sarah Manguso. From the forthcoming collection Siste Viator (Four Way, 2006). Used with permission of the author.
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