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A Poem by Ookpik
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsKT0s5J8ko&ab_channel=MacMiller

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This place,
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This place is my sanatorium;
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It's where I come to collect myself,
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To codify expressionism
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Into useless little poems - 
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Half hearted portraits and delayed trains of thought
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Held up
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At a terminal, where those employees
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That're waiting, patiently, for me to leave
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Announce abruptly across the loudspeaker:
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"Engine in station,"
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"All aboard,"
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"The train will be departing at three."
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This place is for catharsis,
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For steeping, and for venting, 
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For tapping keys with the voracity
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Of a Thai boxer, wrapping his shins about bamboo
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In preparation for an upcoming fight
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Held semi-annually, in the center of the city.
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This place is sanctuary,
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A silent compass -
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Where I might hold a wicker candle
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To the charts and navigational maps,
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The antiquated books and meticulous secrets
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That indicate a course of least resistance
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Through a predetermined tempest, 
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And in so doing, provide for me a leger
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Detailing all manner and number
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Of buttons and hatches,
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Sabers, and breach-loaded cartridges,
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All spare sails, tar and marketable timber 
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Warranted
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To survive blizzards in the tropics
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And a summer-storm, occurring at the height 
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Of an oxymoronic mid-winter.
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This place is a cave;
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It is an owl's hollow, a cairn, and a barrow,  
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A lighthouse high-tower
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Or the bell-room and steeple, arranged
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At the very pinnacle of the cathedral.
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(break)
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(Quasimodo comparison)
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(aside:)
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(when a cocksucker that can't spell)
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(calls you an a*****e that can't write,)
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(well,)
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(then it's time to leave the website)
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© 2021 Ookpik


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Yukon Territory, Canada



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