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I don't know. I don't think General Hooker campaigned and Delaware. But he was governor of Massachusetts, send a Union Army General.

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And he has distinction is immortal of having lost the battle of task list though. And his statue stands

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outside the state house in Boston. And I think he added a word to the language that doesn't use very often, that the IV was a man who

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lived well and there are many camp followers, women who've come to this camp and they were called, occurs. While the war is

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in Midway and it's evening when Boston blacked out Christmas Eve and focus statue instead of the usual festivity, it's dark.

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Tonight, a blackout. 20 years ago, I hung my stocking on the tree and held serpent entwined the apple in

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the toe to sting the child with knowledge. Hookers heals, kicking it nothing in the shifting snow. A canon and a can of

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cannonballs rusting before the black and stay taus know how the Longhorn of plant a broke like glass and hookers gauntlets.

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Once I came from mass. How storm clouds shelter Christmas. Once again, Mars meets is fruitless star with open arms

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is have a saber, clashes with the rhyme. The war god promised an empty far ed forms

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anonymous machinery from raw men. The cannon on the common cannot stun the blundering butcher as he rides on time. The barrel links with Holly.

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I'm cold. I asked for bread. My father gives ME mode, is stocking is full of stones.

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Sandra, and red is crowned with Wilson varies. Man of war, where is the summers garden? And that the ancient

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speckled serpent will appear. And Black Eyed Susan, with their friends would head. When Champs was still

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mowed down the volunteer. All wars or bias, Herman Melville said, but we are old. Our fields are running wild.

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To Christ again, turn, Wander on child. The second poem, I'm going to read this. I'm going to read part of a long poem called The Quaker graveyard and then tuck it in it.

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A, L and J for my cousin Marlon Winslow, There's a destroy our command and died in the war. And he hardly appears in the poem.

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It's moral law firm and the one who's fighting. And it's somewhat allegorical poem about America

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that I've always thought. I suppose most people do that. The American ethic is Melville's Moby Dick and the symbolism is disputed.

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But do you know the mad Captain Ahab becomes obsessed with the killing the white whale. And There's a question

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what the white whale stands for, whether it's evil or for nature. I'm missing that. But it seems part of our country

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that idealism is they're closely allied with destruction and, and there are a number of allusions to Captain Ahab and his ship,

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the peak quad, and they're good many whales in the poem. The Quaker graveyard. The Quakers were very modest people

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that when they buried people, they usually didn't put up gravestones NO times and you'll get a little graveyard smaller than this room

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and it would have hundreds of bodies in it, but only two or three stones and a lot of people buried there is being as anonymous

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and dropping into oblivion as though they were dropped into the sea. Upon the Quaker graveyard in Nantucket. Let ma'am, have dominion over

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the fishes of the sea and the fowls of the air and the beasts and the whole earth and every creeping creature that

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move with upon the earth. A brac. To show off, Maddox at the C will still breaking violently.

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And knighted steamed into our North Atlantic fleet. When the drowned sailor touch the dragnet, light flashed from

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his matted head and marble feet. He grappled at the net with a coiled hurdling muscles. So this ties the corpse with bloodless,

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a batch of reds and whites that's open staring eyes were lost or less dead livestock cabin windows on a stranded

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how cavalier with sand will wait the body, close its eyes and he would see what whence it came. Where the heel headed dog fish box

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It's no was on Ahab's void and Farid. And the name is blocked in yellow chalk. Sailors who pitched this part tempted to see where dread not

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shock and facets hell-bent deity when you are powerless to sand bag this, the Atlantic bulwark faced by

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the earth shaker green on where a chaste and his steel scales asked for no orphan glue to pluck life back. The guns of the steel plate recoil

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and then repeat the horse solute. Whenever winds are moving and their breath, he used the roped in bulwark of this pair, the terms and see God's

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tremble at your depth and these home waters. Sailor, can you hear the peak quad see wings beating, lambdoid fall headlong and

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break on our Atlantic wall. Off stamps at whether yawing S both splash the bell boy with ballooning spend occurs as

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the entangled screeching main sheet clears the blocks of matter kit where labours lashed to have a stir and throw

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their long lead squids to bluefish. See girls playing there. Have they let, see what wins. Wings beat upon the stones,

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cousin and scream for you in the clause. Rush to see his throat and ring it in the slideshow of this old Quaker graveyard, where the bones cry out in

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the long night for the beast, bobbing by Ahab square volts and the East. All you recovered from both side and died with you, my cousin.

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And the how Brian is fruitless on the blue beard of the god, stretching beyond us to the castles in Spain, Nam targets westward haven to Cape Cod,

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guns cradled on the tide glass, the glass about a water clock built and backwash. Raul assault and Sam lashing or a

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scaffold rock are warships in the hand of the great God. Or at times contrition, blues, whatever it was,

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these Quakers, sailors lost in the mad scramble of their lives. They died when time was open. I had wooden and childish only bones advice

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there and the nowhere where their boats were tossed sky high. Where mariners favorite news that is the why did Monster,

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what it cost them as their secret. In the sperm whales, leg casts see the Quakers drown and hear their cry.

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If God himself had not been on our side, if God himself had not been on our side when the Atlantic rose against us, why then it'd swallowed us up quick.

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The end of the poem, the wind and waves. Wind and water flowing on the empty tomb. Senator. When the whales

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visceral go and the role of its corruption overruns this world beyond tree swept Nantucket and would hold and Martha's,

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then you'd say a lot with your sword whistle and fall and sink into the fat. And the great ash bed of your host of fat.

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The bones cry for the blood to white whale. Fact flukes, action WACC about its ears. The death land turns into the sanctuary, tears the gun blue squiggle,

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heaving like a flail and hacks the coiling life out. It works and drags and rips the sperm whales midriff than the rhymes.

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Garbage of blubber spill to wind and weather. Sailor and golds go around the stove and timbers where the morning star as sing out together and thunder shakes

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the whites and dismembers the red flag hammered in the masthead. Hide our steel journal Messiah, the nice side.

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I want to take some more direct poems. This is an allergy for the philosopher George Santa Ana. Them fairly well at the end of his life,

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we had long correspondence and then I went and Madame in Rome two years before a dad. And he was very strange situation and Rome that to him

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the most displace to men. And it was a Spaniard who had grown up in Boston, living in Rome in

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a Catholic monastery run by Irish blue sisters. Also, he, he believed in the Catholic Church and the sort of

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symbolic way as symbolic or metaphorical construction. But he didn't leave it in and it literally which fashion,

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what the sisters approved of. And I remember he told me hoped it die quickly and not the leg to come into the church and he did die outside the church.

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He would rather tiring man, he loved to ride and talk to friends. Buddy enjoyed solitude and after Rome was liberated,

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D was caused a tremendous subtraction and GIs came to see him and it was more visited the nadir of abandoned his life

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and may receive them. Curtis lead, but I think he found that rather wearing. And another thing about his religion,

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an epigram that there is no God and married his mother. That's calculated to offend atheist, Catholic and Protestant things.

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And monasteries call center staff know, rotunda, old monster outside Rome and compare him with the damped as

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teacher from prenatal Latina. And for George sat down in the hay days of 45 bus loads of souvenir and D range G I,

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as an officer, professors of philosophy, came crashing through your cell, puzzled to find you still alive. Free-thinking Catholic into the dough.

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Strays spirit. Who found the church too good to be believed. Later I used to dawdle past circus mu3, temple to santos Stefano,

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grown paper thin like you from waiting. Lying outside the consecrated ground forever now, you smile like stab through nato,

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running for the green cloth that Verona lot bike one who loses but like 101, As long pursuit of Socrates, daemon, man slaying out.

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So bad is the demon of philosophy at last to change those fleeting virgins and a friend, a laurel tree. Is that sound or staff know ritardando.

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When you died near 90, still unbelieving and confess and received true to your boy, a shyness of the bride.

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Trooper. Assay your child's red crayon, pass. Leading deletions on the Gala is you hold on to your throbbing magnifying glass.

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That born arena where the whirling sound and broken-hearted lands like your hand, refined by bile. This yellow is a lump of gold.

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In his last years, his hands were paralyzed and you'd have a big red crayon and it ride and revisions in his book,

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then they'd have to use a magnifying glass to see the words. And just before he died, the bile got into a system,

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so they literally was gold colored. Now this point is less serious, that's called the Delmore Schwartz, the poet. And it harks back to a wonder 946

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when Delmore Schwartz was teaching at Harvard and I was trying to get a job at Harvard and he was my sponsor and He put great ingenuity

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and do it and they felt this had doubtful case and had to be planned carefully. And there are a whole series

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of people where we meet and we shouldn't make them in the wrong order and not say the wrong things to them. And somehow one of

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the most significant people was TS Eliot's brother Henry. Where our layer 2, there's a nice old gentleman who

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worked in the Weidner Library. And today is we've prepared for him, but the furnace and the house went out and we add some little argument about

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who relied it and behalf of a turned out be able to end the same time the refrigerator went off

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and it was an old-fashioned one, terrible lethal gas came out of it. And so all the windows had to be opened and it got colder.

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And Mr. Rohit with his wife with a cold, I'm left with the worst cold and and and it was all a refreshments. We offer them a very courteous but had

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rather hard treatment and ask the t which we didn't really know how to make other. And after we left,

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we tell if we hadn't forwarded my connection with Harvard and we had a bottle of gin and many deep thoughts.

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Delmore, Schwartz, we couldn't even keep the furnace let even when we had disconnected it. The antiquated refrigerator GR

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gold mustard gas through your mustard yellow house and spoiled are long maneuvered this from TS Eliot's brother Henry,

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where your stuff duck. By this point my poetry drops symbol. So duck, it's a duck and not freedom

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or your stuff. Duck trained toward Harvard for my trunk. It's Bill was the black whistle and it's brow was high and

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thinner than a baby's thumb. It's webs with toughest toenails on its bow. It was your first kill. Rushed it home, pickled and

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a 10 waste basket of RAM. It look through us, is defeated, dead, drunk. You must have prompt it's iLabs with

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the NAOH and yet it lived with us. And Matt are stair rabble, Asian loop brushes drugged, and they're perched on

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my trunk can typing table. It corrode our universal acts to moment Delmore. We dry, can add

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the chicken hearted shallows to the world. Under C is fellows. No-blame mad. We talk to our friends,

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LET choice and fraud. The masters of joy, the our guests here you said the room was filled with cigarette smoke

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circling the paranoid inert. Gay is the Coleridge back from Malta. His eyes lost in Flash, depth, fade to black.

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You're tiger, kitten, oranges. Carts wheeled for joy and a ball of snouts. You said, we poets and argue begin and sadness.

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There are the M, come despondency and madness. Stalinist had to cerebral hemorrhages. The Charles River was turning silver.

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In the light of morning. We stop the duck's foot like a candle them or to Jen, we've killed. And this is a poem about the war

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to its core memories of West Street in lab kit. Now a conscientious objector, worn rather complicated circumstances,

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changed my position and went to jail and very nicely treated. But first jail I was in sorted Clearing House

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in New York City. West Street jailed and they've put people, they didn't quite know where the law hanged and then decided and

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it was full of celebrities. And the most famous was Louis lab k, The head of murder incorporated. And New York State claim them in

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the federal government claimed him and he stayed in West straight and Mile, bald headed man and who sort of drifted about and didn't say very much

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and he was loud, certain things in the cell and nobody met my first night with someone who had been 13 years and

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looters and in a person and he said MapKit wouldn't hurdle lamb. And he wouldn't personally that the sign things and

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push buttons and people will go into oblivion. And he was there and he was later electrocuted it as life as well,

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sad ending and also there were two men, probably none of you remember now by often around New Hollywood labor leaders and

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they were indicted for White Slave Traffic. And they were there and West straight and very commercial looking man who would go out of

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jail each day with their lawyers. And they were tough. And then there are a lot of very innocent conscientious objectors

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and add a friend named Abraham. A wet suit was most extreme objector I've ever met and neighbors vegetarian and they wouldn't

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eat fruit massively fallen off the tree and Eve wouldn't wear leather belts. And I think that saw it and he was put in cell would die off.

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And I think biophilia committed suicide with solid. I may attach a Brahma. What? Well, this is looking back on that time

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and one out living in Boston them streak or Marlborough Street in Back Bay section, that proper street that's

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gotten a little more interesting, gone downhill since it's great days. And but Henry James, William James is disputed,

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said that the classic example of an understatement would be that Marlboro streets hard let passionate. Now it is somewhat memories

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of West straighten back it. Only teaching on Tuesdays, book worming and pajamas fresh from the washer each morning.

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I hog the whole house on Boston hardly net Marlborough Street where even the man scavenging fill than the Bakelite trash camps as two children,

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a beach wagon, a shelf made, and as a young Republican, have nine months daughter, young enough to be my granddaughter.

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Like to sum C rises in our flame for Mongolian, swear. These are the tranquilizer fifties and I'm 40,

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ought to regret my CIB time, hours of fire breathing, Catholic CEO, and made my manic statement, telling off the state and precedent.

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I sat waiting status in the bullpen, started Negro Bar with curlicues of marijuana, honest hair. Globally year I rocked

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on the roof for the West Street Jail, a short enclosure like my school soccer court, and saw the Hudson River once

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a day through stood a clothes line entanglements in bleaching khaki colored tenements, struggling. I Yammer metaphysics with

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a Brahma, with jaundice yellow. It's rarely TAM and fly weight pacifist. So vegetarian, he wrote shoes and preferred fallen fruit.

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He tried to convert by often Brown, the Hollywood pimps to his diet. Hair, a muscular suburban wearing chocolate double breasted suits.

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They blew that tops and beat him black and blue. I was so out of things. I'd never heard of the Jehovah's Witnesses.

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And you will CRY. Asked fellow Jaipur Jail bird. Now we answered, I'm a J W. He taught me the hospital tuck and

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pointed out the tee shirt in the back of murder incorporated Star Lab k. There pile towels on a rack or dawdling off to his little segregated cell

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full of things to bitten the common man. A portable radio address or two toy American flags tied together with a ribbon of Easter palm.

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Flat. They bald, lobotomized, drifted in a sheepish com, where no agonizing reappraisal Jarred is concentration on

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the electric chair hanging like an oasis in this era of loss connections. In this form as a colorful titled Conquer. It's seen as little main town,

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suchlike town I live in and I've gotten in trouble with this poem in the neighborhood. So I say it's not quite that term.

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And what skunk car is? It's late at night, side two o'clock and on any night when the garbage is out.

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And then the skunks just appear from wilds and, and their indomitable left go through Stonewall to get to the garbage.

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One night you have skunks. Next, natural raccoons, beautiful flatness creatures. And while the poem begins,

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it's not very long, but it as a sort of dawdling structure. And it begins with a description of the town and its main town

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that had greater day. Is it one such ships that sailed around the world and the old square rigor days and even later it

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was rather grand and they're big houses and it's fallen somewhat into the cave. And the first part of the poem is

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a description of how the town, village. And then the speaker goes through a sort of dark night, sort of existentialist, actually,

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dark night of the soul. And he looks at the lovers in their cars and he owns something called a two door for TU DOR,

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meaning it has TWO doors. And then the skunk Sapir. And I've had to understand this poem quite well,

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but strict critics wrote on it months and they explained a lot to me that I hadn't known about and I could really talk about it myself that however,

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the one found the skunks as a general joy giving image of nature. And the other founded a frozen cafe, Tom catatonic image of har.

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And you can take your choice. I can't be both. Maybe not another. Skunk are known to those islands.

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Hermit areas still lives through winter and her Spartan cottage. Her sheep still gray is about the C. Her son bishop,

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her farmers first select men in our village. She is in her dotage, thirsting for the hierarchic privacy of Queen Victoria's century.

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She buys up all the ice or is facing her shore, unlatched them for the seasons. Ill.

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We've lost our summer millionaire who seemed a leap from an LL Bean catalog is 9 not Yaw was auctioned off to Lobster Men.

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Red fox stain covers blue here. And now our ferrite that greater brightens his shop for, for his fish nets filled with orange cork.

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Orange is cobblers bench and all. There is no money and it's work. He'd rather. One dark night. My tutor, Ford, climb the hills, go.

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I've watched for love, cars, lights turned down, they lay together. How to how weathered graveyard shelves on the town.

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My mind, not ride. A car, radio bleeds loud or Careless Love. I hear my yellows Barrett SOB, a neat blood cell.

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It if my hamburger at its throat. I myself from hell, nobody's here. Only. Chunks that search in the moonlight for a bite to eat.

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They march on S folds up Main Street. White Stripes, moon struck guys, read fire under the chalk, dry and spire,

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spire of the Trinitarian church. I stand on top of our back steps and breathe the rich share. A mother's gone with our column of

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Catan swells the garbage pail. She jobs or wedge had an a couple of sour cream. Drops are ostrich tail and

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will not scare water. I'll read some translations. If a pipe does translations into poetry, I think he's into trouble.

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And, and, OR was that half your friends will say you should be writing original poems and the other half will

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be other rival translators. So say you've been unfaithful to the original. You're caught and hover.

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It's great fun to translate, I think, and it's your part two. All too easily get into your own rot and

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it's good to get out of that. And translational poetry, I think there for some pros for us to add a famous remark that

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portrays what won't translate. So that that can't quite be said of war and peace. That and again, a competent translator

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would do some masterpiece in English for more than the tax to war and peace. But in poetry that you do

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have to try to rival the craftsmanship, at least of your original Lambda. And I think you should. There's no law for how you should translate,

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but it seems reasonable that the translator should have something of the same freedom that the original author did.

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That. Nobody writes a poem, clamps it in his head and then carries it out. Virtualize that. As you write.

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The metrical forms, the rhymes and images that you develop suggest further images and that flux is there and it's hard to

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imagine poetry being written any other way. And the translator I think, should have that freedom and AMD Valley supplied so much the least we can do is

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to have it be a good craftsman. And the aim is to make a good English poem. Of course, that when I've finished this book,

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I thought as much my best book authors always do and gave a reading which I did nothing but read from Baku translations.

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And it was that the AMA and New York and when I got through, some came up and wanted their money back, that this wasn't poetry and out good,

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You're more our gummed about translating. Then I said there are many great poems in English, but a few great translations.

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I thought I made it seem difficult. And while the first prime I'm going to read, I'm going to read two translations night I'm going to flood.

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That is a poem by the Italian fun lab Paradise who died. And the 830 is at the age of 39. And many of you know

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about him and but I'll say a word for those who don't that. Like Wordsworth, he is a man and Wales straddles

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the centuries that there's great deal of a sort of formal 18th century style and buy a party. And there's something else that's

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romantic and changing. And he's one of the saddest poets in the world that he was crippled and use a classical scholar

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and he had various other troubles. Only lived in a small Italian town. And his life seems to then anguish. But, but for mine is he

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resembles the French poet to Alfred to the knee, I think, but he's greater and somehow the melancholia has something

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joyful about it and creative and you feel very TMD are taught by a Florida. This is a very famous poem called so.

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And it's about a girl that a, no, when you use a boy and he only knew or from a distance, he was in his house studying

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and groaning and this beautiful girls. So the nearby and he used to watch are, and She's a symbol of, and she died very young.

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And the poem is about her death, but it's not an allergy. It's She's a symbol of something that dies. And every life.

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At the end, he describes how soon hope died in this life. You mustn't think of lab part is defeated. Man lives the anguish of someone

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who triumphed. So there. Sylvia, you remember the minutes in this slide overhung by death. When butyl flamed through

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you're shy, serious meditations. And you lap beyond the limits of girlhood. Wild lightning add Chang. Your incessant singing,

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shook the mirror, bright cobbles, and even the parlor shattered from summer where you satiate your sewing

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and such girlish things. Happy enough to catch that the futures blurred off. It was the great May.

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And this is how you spent your day. I could forget the fascinating studies in my bolded room where my life was burning out and the heat of my writings

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made the latter's regularly and melt on the drops of sweat. Sometimes are loud on the railing of my father's house and pricked up my ears and

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heard the noise of your voice and your hand run to the hum of the monotonous Lou. I marveled at the compose sky.

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The little sun gilded dustpan, and the gardens running high and half out of sight. Mountains on one side and the

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Adriatic far off to the right. How can human tongue say what I found? What tremendous meanings to posing and lightheartedness myself.

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What a Marie Antoinette stage set for life and its limits. But I think of that great puff of pride, sour constrictions choke me and I turn

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aside to derive my chances wrenched into miss adventure. Nature, harsh nature. Why will you not pay your promise today?

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Why have you stature children a bird net? Even before the SAR Rocco at suck the sap from the grass. Some undiagnosed disease struck

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you and broke you. You died child, and never saw your life flower or your flower plucked by

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young men courting new and arguing love. On the long Sunday walk. Their heads turned and lost and you're quick shy talk.

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Thus hope subsided little by little. I decided I was never to flower. Hope they are comrade of my shrinking summer. How little you could keep your color.

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You make ME WEP. Is this your world? The US is two versions. That's infatuation, that's accomplishments,

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It's sensations we use to unravel together. You broke before the first advanced, true. The grave was the final shining milestone you would always been

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pointing to with such insistence in the undistinguishable distance. And I want to read now contemporary Italian poem.

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Somewhat similar subject. That seems to be a theme running through the Italian literature that two themes. One is the loss Empire that you run into

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that in downtown almost all later Italian authors. And the other eye seems to be the girl you met when at the wrong time,

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she was too young and you back reach and Laura and Pete tract Lauren and Sylvia for part a. I'm done.

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Let's somewhat similar theme of pumps called door Marcus and it's by Eugenio, one towel a who's still living as a point about same age as

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TS Eliot and occupy somewhat the same position that you brought in the new poetry and is

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probably the greatest Italian poet since lab part a and one of the three or four greatest poets live I think and,

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and he's difficult back outlet. But these somewhat different than these poems are much shorter than outlets and

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they're most a rather tortured. Now poems with difficult imagery. This is, and this is fairly simple imagery. And Marcus was Yugoslavia

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in Jewish girl that I suppose is real person, I don't know, but and this is thinking back of the time when they're in

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love that it was a plank pair. Push from part a of course, see ne, enter the open sea. A handful of men.

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Dollar blocks drop, draw in their nets. But the toss of your thumb, you point out the other shore invisible, your true country.

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Then we trailed can now to the outlying ship yards, Stillwood with some insert. A patch of town sick country where depressed,

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bring full of amnesia, which burning out. Here where the world's way of surviving is soft lives by nervous Louboutin anxiety.

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Your words, flash a rainbow like the scales of a choking malate. Your restlessness makes me think of migratory birds diving at

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a lighthouse on an ugly night. Even your own way as a whirlwind circling and visibly the laptops non-existent. I don't know how. So press you've

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stood up to that particular diffident, your heart. What saves you? Perhaps there's a charm which you keep near urine dipstick,

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puff and nail file. A white mouse made of ivory does still exist. Now I want to animate our reading a few unpublished poems.

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This is called Fall 1961 and seen as New York City. And this may be accumulated to me, but it did it my money,

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my friends seemed feel the same way that it was year when you felt that the danger, the world blowing up was very close.

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And Bertrand Russell was for speaking in their big marches and peace marches. And our relations with

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Russia were very jagged end. I think that situation still exists, but somehow it's gotten milder, potentially still exists and

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it's there couldn't be more dangerous. I think the world we live in, but it's slacked off for a while and you can maybe go on

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thinking about such things too long. The poem begins with an image of them. Grandfather clock with the orange moon goes cross the dial and it maps

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indoors and it ends outdoors with nature with the image of the arm, the Baltimore Orioles. Black and orange burden is swinging nest.

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It ends with nature, but where the bomb will send us if it goes off. Fall 1961. Back and forth.

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Back and forth goes the talk, talk, talk of the orange bland, ambassadorial face of the moon on the grandfather clock.

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All of them, the shape and jar of nuclear war. We have talked dark extinction to death. I swim like a minnow behind my studio window.

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Our n drifts near. The moon, lifts, radiant with terror. The state is a diver under a glass bell of fathers,

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no shield for his child. We are like a lot of wild spiders crying together, but without tears. Nature holds up a mirror.

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One swallow makes the summer, it's easy to take off the minutes. But the clock can stick back and forth, back and forth, back and forth.

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My 1 of rest is the orange and black oriole swinging nest. This poem called water and spend time in the past

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that I spent with a friend, a girl, and it's on the main coasts and we stayed in little fishing town for some time and and We felt very happy and stay chair this up.

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And then we parted and fonts called water. It was from Maine lobster town. Each morning. Boat loads of hands pushed off from

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Granite Quarries on the islands and left dozens of bleak, white frame houses stuck like oyster shells on a hill of rock.

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And below us. The C lack the raw little matchstick mazes of aware fish. For B8, we're trapped.

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Remember? We sat on a slab of rock. From this distance and time. It seems the color iris

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rotting and turning purply. But it was only the usual gray rock, turning the usual gray. And when drenched by the sea,

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the sea drenched the rock at our feet all day and kept tearing away flake after like one night you dream to a mermaid

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clinging to a warp pile and trying to pull off the barnacles with your hands. We wish dark to sold might return.

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Mike goes to the rock. In the end, the water was too cold, bores riches, Iran and whatnot Jews.

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This upon called soft wood. And again the scene as main coastal seen and how the softwood is for the softwood of the houses and the floors

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of the country houses. And it's also the softwood of human flesh that we all wear out. And it's to my cousin Herat,

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Winslow, old lady in her 80s, who's been parallelized for eight years and lives in Washington, who own the house that I live in

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and their mind is fun, but she's in that state where the drug that cures One thing, Mars another and brave enough, good old age.

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And the poem begins with the image of seals. And if you've ever watched seals in the zoo or a nature that it would seem they define

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a kind of Friday and anxiety that they banned completely devoted to being at ease and you think that never die. And I compare them to Matthew Arnold Scala,

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GIP say that the young Oxford student do, went off with the gypsies and gave up all cares and came immortal that. So the legend went softwood.

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Sometimes I have suppose CEOs must live as long as the Scala Gypsy. Even in their barred pond at the zoo, they're happy and no sun

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far turns more delicate, led to the sun without wincing of the will. Here too in main things band to the wind forever.

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After two years away, one must get used to the painted softwood, staying bright and play in to the air, blasting an all white wall,

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whiter as it blows through curtain and screen touched with salt, an evergreen, a green juniper berry spills crystal-clear GM.

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And even the hot water in the bathtub is more than water enriched with the scouring effervescence

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of something healing. The illimitable solved things last. But sometimes for day is here. Only children seem fit to handle children.

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And there is no utility or inspiration in the wind smashing without direction. The fresh paint on

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the captain's houses had softer wood. Desk where riggers used to whiten the four corners of the globe. But it has no consolation

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to know the possessors seldom outlast the possessions once warped and bothered by that touch. Shed skin will never get another

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where yet to see your tactile bark. My window. Summer after the summer. This is the season when our friend may and will die daily.

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Surely the lives of the older, briefer than the young Harriet Winslow who own this house, was more to me than my mother.

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I think of you far off in Washington breathing and the heat wave in air conditioning. Knowing each drug that

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nums alerts another nerve to pay and to mourn. Very short poem on my friend Theodore, right? Good.

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Mr. Hafez, a poem on the same subnet, more powerful than mine. I think that this is a short form and I'm first met Rett key in 1947,

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not think and we were to place where riders could stay called Yaso and we became very good friends. And that was the beginning of

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when he was becoming famous poet and he was man somewhat like Dylan Thomas. Great elemental, an agenda. You put everything into his poetry

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and when he died, I think he was 55. 56 that you couldn't say burned his life out, but you felt he was, he was quite willing to

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risk sharpening it for the glory of this poetry in the dream. You'd enormous man with there delicate minute perceptions.

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The Theodore rekey 980, 1963. Oh, I have an image, a lot of it in imagery here. The hell diver, you know,

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as a sort of blue like brown bird that stays underwater mountain. All night. You wallowed through my sleep. Then in the morning you will

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loss in the main sky, close, cold and gray, smoke and smoke, colored Cloud. Sheep light on sociable,

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reptilian to hell dive a splattered squawking on the water. Loons devolving to a monochrome. You on a nature helpless, elemental creature.

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The black stump of your ham does touch the waters under the earth and left them quick and with your name. Now, you on the mother.

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Omnipresent, she may do nonexistent. The oceans, anchor our high tide. This prompts called the flaw, which I'm Fred, I probably pronounced like

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the floor, but it's, it's fairly w. And a little bit of autobiography that the flaws an image

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of something I have that, not that serious, but in some little pigment is loose in your eye, you can see a little dot moving about

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and it's nowhere costs. It's not outside your eye or inside your eye and it, it has no fatal consequences.

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But if I compare it with the free, Well, I was thinking of I was reading a book about the insides of the atom that it's a great proof of three,

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well that there's one little undetermined particle and that spherical shell length, but it seems about

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as abstract as the particle. And the last part of the poem, the problem of free will lead to mill it down to so little,

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just that it's hardly worth having. Better say it, solve this. Determined creatures and supply. And my wife and I were sitting by

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the shore looking out at the bay and there's a seal in this poem too, and there's a graveyard across the bay and you see some stones.

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This rather gruesome customer, if the husband dies first as they usually do, is states to put in and then date with a blank is left to the wife.

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She'll join him that the flaw. So a love poem, I think a sealed swims like a poodle

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through the sheet of blinding solved. A country graveyard here and they're rock. And here and there are pine drops on the essence of the gasoline. Psm mode.

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Some I flaw, wobbles in the heat. Hair, thin hair dark, the fragment of the hair. A noose, a question.

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All as possible. If there's free will. Something like this hair inside my eye, outside my eye.

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Yet three, airless as Grace, if the good God I see are bought is quiver. And this rustling air. All possible.

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Also unpredictable. Old wives and husbands. Look that gravestones weight and couples with the names and half the date,

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one future and one freedom. In a flash, I see a widened into skeletons are eager, sharp and cries. A pair of stones

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cutting like shark fins through the boundless wash to walking cobwebs. Almost body liszt crossed paths here, once kept house and lay in bed.

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Your fingertips once touched my fingertips and status tingling through a 1000 threads or pulsing, fetch some pet.

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The SUM or slips between our fingers into nothingness. Rate to lean forward. As the heat waves roll over,

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our body is grown in sensible, ready to dwindle off into the so two modes or I flaws. The invisible.

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Hope for the hopeless launch to cast adrift on the great law that gives the final gift. Dear figure, curving like a question mark.

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How will you and hear my answer in the dark? Thank you.