I asked Tuli Kupferberg once
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Did you really jump off of The Manhattan Bridge
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Yeah
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he said
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I really did
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How home
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I said
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I thought that I had lost the ability to love
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Tuli said
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So
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I figured I might as well be dead
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So
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I went one night to the top of the Manhattan Bridge
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after a few minutes
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I jumped off
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That
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amazing
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I said
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Yeah
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Tuli said
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but nothing happened
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I landed in the water
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So I swam ashore
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went home
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took a bath
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went to bed
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Nobody even noticed
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Memorial Day by Anne Waldman ampersand Ted Berrigan
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