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The next poem is pretty
obviously an attempt

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to say in a poem what's
going on in a painter,

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I was watching a
friend of mine who

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is a painter and the husband
of the girl I went with

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up until last year curiously.

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I won't go into that.

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Anyway Vancouver is a very
landscapy place too much so

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at times as anybody who's read
Tish over the last year or so

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can attest.

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Vancouver two, this
line, so, they're,

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shore and a dab of blue
patch of sky above mountains.

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Do the sun sliding down
snow slopes to the sea,

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I don't take a
collection until--

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it's a nice thought though.

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I'll start.

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This line so, there, shore
and a dab of blue patch of sky

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above mountains

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Do the sun sliding down
snow slopes to the sea

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Can you imagine?

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Snow in April

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However, triangles
of light for boats

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braving the inlet trying
the first wind of the year

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There, blocks of brown,
gray, dark green buildings

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backed up from the ocean

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Put the paint on
thick for spring,

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some pink for cherry
blossoms, red for blood

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flowing through everyone
clouds and rolling back

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to the outer islands

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Put in yellow my favorite
color please for nothing

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Put in the all outdoors
the forest fires of summer,

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the farm floods,
frogs on the grass,

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pigeons, pigeons, pigeons,
pigeons flapping the air

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Put in the air paint with both
hands brushes full of color

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Paint the great return of
holy cathedral mountain,

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sunlight burning down warm
and brilliant all the sea

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silly day.

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In case I read any more
poems about Vancouver

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I'd like to just give you
a short indication of what

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goes on in Vancouver,
it's a series

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of harbors that cut in and
bring all kinds of boats

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from Japan and Seattle.

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And then there's mountains
that rise right up

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right from the shore
and they go way up high,

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and people ski on top of
them and do ski diving down

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at the bottom of them.

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And then there's a big valley
that goes in about 100 miles

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and then there's more
mountains inside,

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and the whole city is full
of seagulls and water skiers.

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