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This next poem, I--

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as much as I know that the
archeology is also something,

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which in this state is very--

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this University is
very high up in.

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And I-- sometimes am very
angry that so much money

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is being used for
archeological digging,

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since it should be to
my opinion sometimes,

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used to build
better school houses

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and housing projects
and things like that.

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But because-- anyhow,
we don't need any proof

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that all these kings and
prophets have been there

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and that they have been using of
course, all vessels and things

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because they were living there.

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So actually it's only people
who don't believe in anything

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have to dig other people--

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[LAUGHS]

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So actually, as much as I
like to see and do this,

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but I have sometimes really--

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I am very angry at see things.

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At an archeological site, I saw
fragments of precious vessels,

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well cleaned and groomed,
and oiled, and spoiled.

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But beside it, I saw a
heap of discarded dust,

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which wasn't even good for
thorns and thistles to go on.

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I asked, "What is
this great dust, which

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has been pushed around,
and sifted, and tortured,

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and then thrown away?"

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I answered in my
heart, "This dust

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is people like us, who
during their lifetime,

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lived separated from
copper and gold, and marble

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stones, and all other precious
things as I remain so in death.

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We are in this heap of
dust, our bodies, our souls,

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all the words in our
mouth, all hopes."

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[APPLAUSE]

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