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"Death of the Saloon Owner."

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I don't know if
I should explain.

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I mean, so we play a game--

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my family and some of
my friends frequently--

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and we call it poetry game.

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And everyone who plays the
game has to put a word in it--

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has to say a word-- and we
all have pencil and paper

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and we have to write
down all those words.

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And then we all have
to write a poem using

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those words in the poem.

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And different poems
come out from everyone

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even though those same
key words are in the poem.

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And this is one
of the game poems.

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"Death of the Saloon Owner."

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It accounts for some of
the funny words in it.

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When he died, those
death-provoking China doll

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blueberries in his eye socket
shrank behind wrinkled wax

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and his big heart
went beep and bang

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with everybody's
spinal cord when

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they emptied their glasses.

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And not even the picture
of James Garfield

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on a plate above the
mirror back of the bar

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could call back the
Percheron pounding,

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dray dragging horsepower
of his arteries.

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And all along the main
line of Center Street

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in Union City, Idaho they hung
out reeds and cotton batting

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dipped in lamp black.

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And Ada Mae Moe, the
constable's wife,

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stuck a crow's feather in
the band of her very best hat

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and marched with the
girls from the Emporium.

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[LAUGHING]

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