--Watching & Waiting of A Pursuer--

You are the town and we are the clock.

We are the guardians of the gate in the rock

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The Two;

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On your left and on your right

In the day and in the night,

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I am watching YOU.

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Wiser not to ask just what has occurred

To them who disobeyed our word;

To those

We were the whirlpool, we were the reef,

We were the formal nightmare, grief

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And the unlucky MAN.

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Climb up the crane, learn the sailor's words

When the ships from the islands laden with birds

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Come in

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Tell your stories of fishing and other men's wives:

The expansive moments of constricted lives

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In the lighted Den.

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But do not imagine we do not know

Nor that what you hide with such care won't show

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At a glance

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Nothing is done, nothing is said,

But don't make the mistake of believing ME dead:

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I shouldn't dance.

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We're afraid in that case you'll have a fall.

We've been watching you over the garden wall

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For hours.

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The sky is darkening like a stain

Something is going to fall like rain

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And it won't be YOU.

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When the green field comes off like a lid

Revealing what was much better hid:

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Unpleasant.

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And look, behind you without a sound

The woods have come and are standing round

In deadly crescent.

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The bolt is sliding in its groove,

Outside the window is the black remov-

ers van.

And now with sudden swift emergence

Comes the women in dark glasses and the humpbacked surgeons

And the scissor man.

This might happen any day

So be careful what you say

Or do.

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Be clean, be tidy, oil the lock,

Trim the garden, wind the clock,

Remember the Two.......

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~~TWO~~

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~http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/427.html