
[0165] and you it, then throw it away.
[0166] Perhaps he had come to that, in spite of appearances.
[0167] He disappeared, his head on his chest, the smoking object in his hand.
[0168] Let me try
and explain.
[0169] From things about to disappear I turn away in time.
[0170] To watch them out
of sight, no, I can't do it.
[0171] It was in this sense he disappeared.
[0172] Looking w [place = overwritten] away I
thought of him, saying, He dwindles, dwindles.
[0173] I knew what I meant.
[0174] I knew I could
catch him, lame as I was.
[0175] I had only to want to.
[0176] And yet no, for I did want to.
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