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I might mention that
the sheet you have I

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will use part of the time.

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And I will indicate
when I'm doing this.

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And some of the
time I won't use it.

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I'd like to use it now.

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On page one, there's a poem
called Vancouver Island, which

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is a long island for those who
haven't seen the map lately.

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About a four-hours trip off
the coast of British Columbia.

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And I have a mythos
about this island.

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It seems that every
day in the newspapers

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there's a report
of a car accident.

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And every summer, there are
many reports of cougars,

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or I think you call
them mountain lions,

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coming into towns and
eating dogs and children.

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It's still quite rugged
up there in the frontier.

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And also, this was founded
by the Spanish, who

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became dissatisfied with
California, and Arizona,

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and places, and went north.

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And came back.

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Vancouver Island.

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Mountain lions prowl the
island of highway accidents,

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grabbing dogs and children
on the edge of town,

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dripping mystery blood
trails into the high woods.

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Twisted wrecks are pried
from bridge pillars

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almost every night.

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Death remains constant on the
edge of the mind centuries

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after the riptide drowned
the Spaniards and their ships

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as fast as they could
send them around the Horn.

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Mountains ruled by the puma,
visited by Spanish eyes.

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Yet viewing this death
island with a road slicing

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it lengthwise, the eyes
in the head of the cat

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hunted by townsmen
from their fast cars.

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Death watching from
the top of a mountain,

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looking down out to sea.