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Here is another
autobiographical poet of sorts.

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The poem I'll read next
is called "The Pack Rat."

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And I knew for years that I'd
have to write such a poem.

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And what prevented
me from writing

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is that I just didn't know
enough about the pack rat.

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And so I did some reading
about it and everything

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that I found out
about the pack rat

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seemed to be appropriate for
an autobiographical poem.

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"The Pack Rat."

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"Collector of lost beads,
buttons, bird bones,

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catalog maker with
an eye for glitter,

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litter lover, entrepreneur of
waste, bits of snail shell,

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chips of jugs, red thread,
blue thread, tin foil, teeth.

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Fair minded thief leaving
in my pocket when I slept,

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the pine cone and two nuts
for the dime you stole.

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Reasonable romancer journeying
more than half a mile

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to meet a mate.

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Split eared lover with a bitten
tail your mate mates rough.

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You last all courtship long.

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You stick around when the brood
comes unlike most other rats.

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Pay or prices, busy
with no dreams but brain

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enough to get along.

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Moderate music maker
with moderate powers

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thumping the drum of frightened
ground with both hind feet

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or scraping dry leaves
to the still woods chirp.

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Simple screamer seized by the
owls descent one scream and one

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regret, just one fellow forbear
survivor have I lost my way?"

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