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Thank you very much.

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There is no way, no
adequate way, at least,

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to introduce one's own
work, except by making

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cryptic and hopefully
helpful remarks

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about each individual
poem as it appears.

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I can say only for your help
that this first short poem,

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in my memory as the result of
an overexposure to real estate

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people, and a disgust with the
whole matter of living anywhere

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at all.

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This is the state of mind one
finally comes to, I think.

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It's called "House Hunting."

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"The wind have lifted the
roof from an old house

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and thrown it away.

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And no one's going to
live there anymore.

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It tempts me.

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Why not have weather
falling in every room?

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Isn't the sky as easy the
keep up as any ceiling,

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less flat and steady.

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Rain is no heavier, soaking
heavy head than a long party.

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The mother moonlight
for a chandelier,

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sun through the laundry,
the snow on conversation,

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leaves in the bed,
fog in the library.

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Or yourself in a bathtub, hoping
for the best as the clouds

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go by.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Dressing for dinner,
according to what

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comes down and not how many.

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And at night, to
sit indoors would

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be to lose nothing but privacy,
as the cropping stars took time

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to mark their flight
over the mind's eye."

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