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I sense someone beside me
and see Emily’s eyes on my hands
and the knife in the sink.
She asks, What are you slicing?
If I were the neighborhood bishop
There’d be lots of things I couldn’t really help with
No rolling up sleeves to fix Brother Nielsen’s car
No driving some new tractor to plow snow