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Fast typing - "On Exiting Universitätsspital Zürich, New Year’s Eve"

Type the 12/31/2025 poem of the day by Charif Shanahan in 2:40.
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The open air had the predictable sparkle
After two months not only indoors
The open air had the predictable sparkle
After two months not only indoors
But flat on my back, waiting, mostly,
For the neck they kept cutting open to heal
But flat on my back, waiting, mostly,
For the neck they kept cutting open to heal
So that when they wheeled me out through double
Doors and the tram passed across my field
Of view and the scattered strangers flecked
The white blur my eyes made
So that when they wheeled me out through double
Doors and the tram passed across my field
Of view and the scattered strangers flecked
The white blur my eyes made
Like floaters after a long sleep, I felt,
Sudden in my plexus, the exact angle of loss
I had lived with when I lived here
Like floaters after a long sleep, I felt,
Sudden in my plexus, the exact angle of loss
I had lived with when I lived here
As though it had waited for me to return so as
To enter me again, as though I had not
Lived four years without it, elsewhere, where
They say life is, regardless of where you are,
As though it had waited for me to return so as
To enter me again, as though I had not
Lived four years without it, elsewhere, where
They say life is, regardless of where you are,
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So that as the bells of the Fraumünster rang
From inside the steeples, the tail
Of the lake stretching out of view between
The hills on either side
So that as the bells of the Fraumünster rang
From inside the steeples, the tail
Of the lake stretching out of view between
The hills on either side
I became,
As an actor becomes, animated, populated by
Someone else’s feelings, someone else’s spirit—
I became,
As an actor becomes, animated, populated by
Someone else’s feelings, someone else’s spirit—
And now, a few years later still, I know
To ask if this complex of feeling, deep-frozen,
Waiting for me, was my actual life—
And now, a few years later still, I know
To ask if this complex of feeling, deep-frozen,
Waiting for me, was my actual life—
Not a portion of the life, not
A possible life, but my tangled and patient
Actual implausible resilient fucked-up life?
Not a portion of the life, not
A possible life, but my tangled and patient
Actual implausible resilient fucked-up life?
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