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Well, I said two more, but
I want to put in another one

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because I remembered
that I have slighted

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this audience in a special way.

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I was invited to go to
the University of Oregon

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to take part in the
Jazz Poetry Festival.

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And I wasn't really
fit for this.

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But I realized it when I heard
the first poet get up and read,

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and he read some
four-letter word poems

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that brought the University
of Oregon into the big leagues

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with Berkeley and other places.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I didn't have
anything ready.

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Except then I
remembered I had one

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Oregon-type four-letter
word poem, which I'd like

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to read before my last poem.

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This is called "Fictions."

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They make a song for
their dogs up North,

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four-letter words only,
the kind real dogs

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can use-- bark, bark, woof,
woof, and so on, you know.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And every night, they
go to call a big one.

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"Pavlov, Pavlov," strictly home
on obedient paths in the snow.

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A song like that or any
temporary spot pitched

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cunningly to our minds can
open the world again and again,

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lead easily through our
city the wildest stories,

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make beautiful young
or old, all the faces,

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and send us out to
rejoice, wild, even

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in autumn under the
free spending sycamore.

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Well, the roof
didn't fall, I mean

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for the other
four-letter word poem.

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But, of course, it
didn't for mine.

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