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So if you survive
growing up on that,

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there's one other poem
from that first book

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that I would like to read.

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I feel that it's a poem
that Woody Allen has

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given a whole new life to.

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Thanks to play it again Sam,
which probably at least half

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of you have seen so the whole
plot of the movie Casablanca.

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And the other half of you
have seen the movie Casablanca

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on The Late Late Show
three or four times.

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So that clues you into
the whole picture.

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This is really a
2nd World War poem,

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and it's a poem of
great nostalgia.

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And it's called just Casablanca.

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As years unwind, now reels
unwind, gray springs out

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of the hair, cheeks
refill, and eyelids

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lighten Bogie beautifully
indifferent seduces a cigarette

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and womankind.

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Ingrid in perilous rain
intensified by angle shots

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is Juno fair and fair.

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Where France falls
and gates clang shut,

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she faithfully misses
the final train.

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Now Vichy is dead, and
Peter Lorre less cowardly,

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and Green Street has
gone with the parrot.

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And I knew a boy
with sandy hair could

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do the dialogue all blurry.

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Cigarette dangling, cheeks
sucked hollow, hands

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in his jacket pockets
could do the dialogue

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for drinks at any party.

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Went down with his
destroyer swallowed

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in the other half
of that real war.

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The tough guy lately dead
of cancer holds the girl

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and then they kiss for the
last time and time goes West,

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and we come back to
where we really are.