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I'm still waiting.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So this is a poem that--

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there's two poems that
I always have to read,

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or somebody who knows my
work will come and say,

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how come you didn't read that?

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I came just so I
could hear that poem.

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So this is one of them, this
is called "Raisin Eyes."

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I saw my friend Ella with
the tall cowboy at the store

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the other day in Shiprock.

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Later, I ask her,
who's that guy, anyway?

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Oh Luci, she said, (I
knew what was coming).

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It's terrible.

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He lives with me and
my money and my car.

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But just for a while.

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He's in the AIRCA
and rodeos a lot.

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And I still work.

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This rodeo business is
getting to me, you know,

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and I'm going to
leave him, because I

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think all of this I'm doing now
will pay off better somewhere

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else.

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But I just stay with him, and
it's hard, because he just

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smiles that way, you know.

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And then I end up
paying entry fees

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and putting shiny Tony
Lamas on layaway again.

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It's not hard, but he doesn't
know when I'll leave him.

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And I'll drive across
the flat desert

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from red valley in blue morning
light, straight to Shiprock

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so easily.

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And anyway, my car
is already used

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to humming a mourning song with
Gary Stewart complaining again

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of aching and breaking
down and out love affairs.

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These Navajo Cowboys with
raisin eyes and pointed boots

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are just bad news.

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But it's so hard to
remember that all the time,

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she said with a little laugh.

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[LAUGHTER]

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