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In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing
The French translator of technical manuals would be relieved
of that painful ulcer beneath her tongue.
And a child with only two teeth would never lose them.
The massage therapist who has recently relocated to New Orleans
might request just once more to taste brie
and not be reached.
And the minor celebrity who feared always being the one
to wear it worse?
And the soccer dad reading Schopenhauer?
And the widow who just gasped past sixty-seven gates? Does she not know
that all great falling happens through air?
Reports confirm passengers were alive when they hit the mountain,
and that I did not return
these kind, sheepskin-lined boots
borrowed from a friend for the cold. 
Boom
From Which the Method of Drawing in Space between the Trees Instead
of the Trees Themselves Might Well Be Employed
In the Unlikely Event of a Water Landing
Jean Valentine Was Here
Nine Miles outside Comfort, Texas
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