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Now, I'm going to finish up
with a few quite recent poems.

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This is another work poem.

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It's dated 7/4/64,
last date [INAUDIBLE]..

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I was working in a
ship coming around

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from Yokohama to
New York as a wiper,

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and this is a poem of mine.

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"Up at dawn, sweep the
deck and empty garbage,

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ship paint down below.

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All my friends have
children and are

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getting old, at least enough to
be a first mate or an engineer.

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Now I know I'll never be a PhD.

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Dumping oily buckets in
the middle of the ocean,

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swirls of dried paint
drips light silver,

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blue, and green
down the outside,

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full of oil rags, wet paint
slosh, coils, marbled grease

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and cream."