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I would like to read
to you, perhaps,

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now a few love poems
because I think

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it's the only thing really
can do against the world.

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But as it happens,
and again, it's

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one of the sad
facts of our lives,

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most love poems are quite sad
because you write love poems

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only after a love is over.

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Most people would
never write love poems

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while they are in love.

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And, also, might be in love,
but by while they are at love--

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while they are together because
I think most poetry which

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would be written by people
who are in love and together

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would be very boring
and silly poetry.

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And so it's one of the
sad facts of our lives

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that we need to lose something,
we need to know constantly

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is that we are about
to lose something.

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The whole finiteness
of our lives

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makes us actually fall
in love because there

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would be no love if
there wouldn't be death

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because otherwise people
would live forever.

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A man would need a
woman in the street

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and fall in love
with her and really

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be very crazy in his love to
her, wanting her and so on.

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And she would tell
him, no, I'm sorry.

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I love someone else.

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If it happens in
our life, it can

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be a very tragic and sad thing.

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But if people
would live forever,

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so we'll say, OK, so in two
million years we'll meet again

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or something, which
again is, of course--

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so I'll read you--

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I just, again, I really find
myself constantly trying

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to justify poetry at all because
I've been so much attacked.

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Like so many poems you asked
me, why is your poetry so sad?

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You don't seem sad.

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You seem to be a happy man,
so why is your poetry sad?

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And why is love poem-- but
love is such a beautiful thing.

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Why are most love poems
sad or at least quiet.

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This poem is called "A Pity.

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We Were Such a Good Invention."

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"They amputated your
thighs off my hips.

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As far as I'm concerned,
they are all surgeons--

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all of them.

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They dismantled us
each from the other.

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As far as I'm concerned,
they're all engineers--

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all of them.

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They pity.

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We were such a good and
loving invention, an airplane

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made from a man and wife--

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wings and everything.

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We hovered a little
above the Earth.

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We even flew a little."