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Surely something
better to do than that.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Just recall--

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[AUDIO OUT]

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Since we're all here,
enjoying the music,

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trying to have a good time,
it's called Talking To Myself.

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I think I'll pursue the
theme of the poet reflecting

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on the writing of poetry
in the various phases

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that I have had to face.

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I won't explain
this poem to you.

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I'll just read it.

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About my being a poet,
the trees certainly

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haven't expressed an interest.

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Standing at a distance from
me, I'd expect at least a

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try to learn something new
besides growing their leaves,

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which by now is old stuff.

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And anyway, it's done
by so many others.

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The poet knows whereof
he writes and is

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the prophet of the now and
the future it has been said.

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Wouldn't these
trees want to know

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what they'll be doing in 100
years as I can tell them.

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None even try, and I can tell
them what they look like,

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and how they stand, and what's
their name, and where they are,

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and what they actually do
in summer and in the winter.

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Deaf, dumb, and happy as
they are, not happy, simply

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willing to go on as always,
not even willing, just doing

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what comes naturally.

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It's baffling, and
I'm lonely writing

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this unimportant to them
and to myself perhaps.

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A tree of just another kind.

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