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  Called into Play

  by A. R. Ammons

  Fall fell: so that's it for the leaf poetry:

  some flurries have whitened the edges of roads

  and lawns: time for that, the snow stuff: &

  turkeys and old St. Nick: where am I going to

  find something to write about I haven't already

  written away: I will have to stop short, look

  down, look up, look close, think, think, think:

  but in what range should I think: should I

  figure colors and outlines, given forms, say

  mailboxes, or should I try to plumb what is

  behind what and what behind that, deep down

  where the surface has lost its semblance: or

  should I think personally, such as, this week

  seems to have been crafted in hell: what: is

  something going on: something besides this

  diddledeediddle everyday matter-of-fact: I

  could draw up an ancient memory which would

  wipe this whole presence away: or I could fill

  out my dreams with high syntheses turned into

  concrete visionary forms: Lucre could lust

  for Luster: bad angels could roar out of perdition

  and kill the AIDS vaccine not quite

  perfected yet: the gods could get down on

  each other; the big gods could fly in from

  nebulae unknown: but I'm only me: I have 4

  interests——money, poetry, sex, death: I guess

  I can jostle those.

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