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Of course we failed,
truthfulness being crucial,
self-criticism demanded,
with motives other than money,
packing words down,
with all our carnal history,
nocturnal artists living in a country
with a fetish for proving it can live without art,
when all we truly needed
was to sit in the sparrow-colored field
watching the last birds of dusk
pass over in silhouette,
and to sleep in our own bed,
or so we said.
—A cento with phrases from C.D. Wright's "Cooling Time."
Title refers to American poets Mary and George Oppen.
