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Primer For The Nuclear Age


At the edge of the mariner's
map is written:
"Beyond this point lie Monsters."


Someone left the light on
in the pantry - there's a skull
in there on the shelf that talks.


Blue eyes in the air,
blue as an idoit's.


Any fear, any memory will do;
and if you've got a heart at all,
someday it will kill you.

Written by Rita Dove

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