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He came the first time to serve; He will return to be served.
The question of service is itself a Question
Of course
Of right, Or left,

the rite, the Left, the write—
What you see, write in a book Only leave

mute
in the interlude
what those seven
portend
leave only

the sound, thousands,
din of chairs thundered across the
banquet’s
parquet
—a lesson in
following
direptions.