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Fair enough "I&039;ve noticed a sort of subed theme in your work It&039;s reoccurs quite often"

"What do you mean?"

"Easier to show you Once I point it out, I&039;m sure you&039;ll see" He pulled two of Jones&039;s poems from the stack, turned them around, and slid them side by side in front of the old man "Read these and think about them thematically"

Jones didn&039;t read the about? Two completely different poems This one&039;s about an arsonist and this other one is a s are so violent"

"So what?"

Morgan shrugged "In any case, those are just the vehicles," Morgan said He kept the cigar in the side of histo like it "Let " He stood, scanned the bookshelf in his living room, and came back to the table with The Collected Works of Wallace Stevens "Listen" He read a poem:

"Anecdote of the Jar"

I placed a jar in Tennessee,

And round it was upon a hill

It made the slovenly wilderness

Surround that hill

The wilderness rose up to it,

And sprawled around, no longer wild

The jar was round upon the ground

And tall and of a port in air

It took doive of bird or bush,

Like nothing else in Tennessee

"What&039;s going on in the poear

Jones turned the book toward hiing everything just by being there It&039;sitself the center of the world"

"But is it really?"

"What do youthere, right?"

Jones thought for a long tiar He thought a cold beer would go ith the san had recently set soether

Jones leaned back in his chair, rubbed his chin "You knohat I think?"

"What do you think?"

"I think it&039;s both," the oldat the same time I think it&039;s only perception that ain,perception is like changing reality"

Morgan took the cigar out of his ain "Jesus That&039;s a pretty fucking good poeure it out"

"Yes"

"Got any more like this?"

"You can borrow the book"

"Thanks"

Morgan said, "That&039;s pretty sht off"

"Thanks, but I&039;d trade being s Morgan set the cigar across the top of the coffee cup, excused hian, is that you?" Louis Reaan hadn&039;t spoken to the professor since the bicycle incident

"Have you seen Pritcher? The big faker is walking around ca a lot of very pointed questions too"

"I think you need to consider that he an said

"Ha I know better He&039;s out to get ment, a bit juvenile"

"A bit"

"But now he sees his chance If he can prove I did it, he&039;ll have me by the balls That&039;s just what he wants, the son of a bitch Morgan, you didn&039;t mention what happened to anybody did you?"

"No"

"I need you to keep it under your hat You wouldn&039;t tell would you? That would be playing right into his hands"

"I said I hadn&039;t mentioned it"

"You won&039;t will you?"

"I&039;ll keep quiet"

"Good man" Reaoing to pay you back"

"That&039;s okay"

"Really I want to show my appreciation"

"Reams, I don&039;t want you to pay me back"

Reams didn&039;t hear "I know a fellon at San Gabriel College in Houston They&039;re going to need a one-year poet next fall"

Now Morgan was listening He&039;d sent out at least thirty applications for next fall and had turned up nothing Securing a job for next year would take a big load off his mind And he wouldn&039;t have to track down Ellis for the ridiculous poetry reading Wouldn&039;t have to be under Whittaker&039;s thuan said

"Not now," Reao Got to keep an eye out for Pritcher Can&039;t stay in one spot too long"

"Reaan returned to the table "Sorry"