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The Company

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The Company

Sigman Byrd

We believed in the company as permanent gravity,

as sacrament（圣礼）, and got the job done.

We were given the memo¹ about getting it done.

But then the company changed hands.

Another, more profitable company

hoisted up a sign and told us

the product line "needed adjusting."

We were told.

And the company, like a beneficent scrim

of blackened sky, pure space --

we looked up into it after a hard day,

everything in it glowing and turning,

a spray of light patterned into

an elastic², expansive aura we began

to envision as living.

We listened to the forklifts（铲车，升降机） whir

through the company, delivering things,

sending things away.

It sounded like a cube of restless ocean

under a coil of glistening³ weather.

It breathed like who we were

when we donned our protective suits

and flashed our data cards. Good morning, we said

and imagined the company's flinty（坚硬的）, flexible shell

resembled something deep inside us.

We believed in our work

as sympathetic blueprint⁴, as touchable.

We were alive. We had forgotten we were alive.

We believed the company was

the one thing we could believe in.

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收听单词发音

1 memo
n.照会，备忘录；便笺；通知书；规章
参考例句：
Do you want me to send the memo out?您要我把这份备忘录分发出去吗？ Can you type a memo for me?您能帮我打一份备忘录吗？

2 elastic
n.橡皮圈，松紧带；adj.有弹性的；灵活的
参考例句：
Rubber is an elastic material.橡胶是一种弹性材料。 These regulations are elastic.这些规定是有弹性的。

3 glistening
adj.闪耀的，反光的v.湿物闪耀，闪亮( glisten的现在分词 )
参考例句：
Her eyes were glistening with tears. 她眼里闪着晶莹的泪花。 Her eyes were glistening with tears. 她眼睛中的泪水闪着柔和的光。来自《用法词典》

4 blueprint
n.蓝图，设计图，计划；vt.制成蓝图，计划
参考例句：
All the machine parts on a blueprint must answer each other.设计图上所有的机器部件都应互相配合。 The documents contain a blueprint for a nuclear device.文件内附有一张核装置的设计蓝图。