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Orion, Orion, has been a
powerful constellation for me

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all my life.

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But I think, probably
because I grew up in a city,

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the air was pretty funky.

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And you couldn't see the
stars, but you could always

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see Orion, if there
were any stars at all.

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And also, city boys don't
know constellations too well.

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And I didn't know very many.

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I knew Orion and that
was easy, it was big.

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And it was lovely, that
paradigm of human desire

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translated into stars.

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And I've written about
Orion quite a bit.

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My wife says there are malign
forces on Orion, evil peoples.

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I don't believe it for a minute.

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If it's true, I don't care.

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Here's a poem, which
is called, "I Have

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Lived Under Orion All My Life."

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And the word Intercourse
in the poem is a town.

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You know the town, Pete.

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Intercourse, Pennsylvania,
which I lived near,

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when I was teaching one
year in Pennsylvania.

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Imagine it's a strange name
for a town in Pennsylvania

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Dutch country.

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That's near Blue
Balls, Pennsylvania,

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which is where Ralph Ginsburg
mailed his magazine from.

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That was the last straw.

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But I feel if people
are going to name

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their town that, they've got to
learn to roll with the punches.

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"I Have Lived Under
Orion All My Life."

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Again, it swings around
under a mask of stars.

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We are enchanted almost
to tears in this carnival

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of blood in the only universe.

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You must remember the
winters in the heartland.

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The ones with hair and teeth
that go for your throat,

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whenever you speak of spring.

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I lived near intercourse
one whole year

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and never had the pleasure.

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And when at last I
decided to go home,

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I didn't know which
way to point the car.

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All I knew was hope
had to be left behind

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with the rest of the luggage.

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Now, we travel each
with his own star.

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For I have lived under
Orion all my life.

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And tonight, leaping
directly overhead,

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dangling his glittering
sword or glittering

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sex, this first Thanksgiving,
this last life spilling

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open like a city of jewels.

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He strings a path
in the darkness.

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