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"Notes for a Lecture."

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I'm back to the theme
of writing poetry.

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I will teach you to become
American, my students.

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Take a turn at being enigmatic
to yourselves especially.

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You work at a job and
write poetry at night.

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You write about working,
married, you write about love.

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I speak of kisses.

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I mean, quarrels.

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The quick kiss
brings the quarrel

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to mind of differences
for their own sakes.

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Did I ever think, going
to bed, a woman beside me

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would be no more
uplifting than a $5 raise?

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Since then, I've been
uplifted in bed 100 times,

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and but once raised in pay.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And that once has
not been forgotten.

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Take a broken whiskey bottle,
set it on top of your head,

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and dance.

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You have a costume.

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You have meaning.

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