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Litany

By Billy Collins

You are the bread and the knife,
the crystal goblet and the wine…

However, you are not the wind in the orchard,
the plums on the counter,
or the house of cards.
And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.
There is just no way you are the pine-scented air.

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