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Now I like then to
read one more poem,

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and as I have been most often
characterized as a love poet,

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because when you can't
think about anything else

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to write about, love is
always a good act, isn't it?

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So I will read a love poem,
and then I will finish.

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And this poem is quite old.

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And it's one of the few
poems that I keep around

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that I like to keep reading.

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It's about four years old.

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And it was about
a different girl--

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one previous to my life.

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So I usually read it when I
go somewhere else to read.

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But it doesn't have
any names in it

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so I needn't have told you that.

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"The Sunday Palm".

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I love your mystical overnight
opening of the flower--

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Autumn purple-reflected
lights in your noonday

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Sunday eyes so that
I catch my breath.

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Lungs full of midnight
air, the overnight opening.

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I swear there are pieces of
pollen in the air you breathe

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into my lungs.

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And your hair--

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I am mystified by the
forehead dance of air

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in the night verdant.

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I feel the light blood in
and around my legs and arms.

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Lonely this morning is good.

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Lonely this morning in
the swab of sunlight

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is the personal generation of
the I love you in the night.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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