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Any questions?

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No question, OK.

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One day I walked a Superstition
mountain near Phoenix.

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And I heard a very funny
story, so I made a poem.

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"At the Superstition Mountain
in the Sonoran desert,

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a beer-bellied man is shooting
through a 50-foot saguaro

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cactus with a rifle.

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A couple of minutes
later, the giant cactus

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falls to the ground
and killed the man.

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April, 1984."

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It's true story.

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"April, 1986, in arriving
at a big mountain

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in Hopi and Navajo, a coyote
is reading the Wall Street

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Journal.

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How many mice can I steal next
year from the American economy?

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Off the coast of
Northern California,

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sea lions are listening
to the long-term weather

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forecast on the radio.

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They want to freeze dry their
Redwood forest for the coming

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ice age.

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On the rocky ridge, somewhere
in the century of nuclear power,

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a family of Californian condors
is watching Wild Kingdom on TV.

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They ponder how many
more years Homo sapiens,

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one of the most endangered
species, can survive."

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I guess when I was
writing a new poem about--

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the title is "My Passport."

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And desert nation gave
me special citizenship

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because desert knows
how I love desert.

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But human society I reject visa.

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No thank you.

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Kind of very funny poem
I started now writing.

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Maybe next time.

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