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I love to go out in late september
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among the fat, overripe, icy, blackberries
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to eat blackberries for breakfast,
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the stalks very prickly, a penalty
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of blackberry-making; and as i stand among them
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lifting the stalks to my mouth, the ripest berries
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fall almost unbidden to my tongue,
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as words sometimes do, certain peculiar words
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like strengths or squinched,
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many-lettered, one syllabled lumps,
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which i squeeze, squinch open, and splurge well
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in the silent, startled, icy, black language
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of blackberry–eating in late september
