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I taught at a woman's prison in
New York a couple of years ago.

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And I would bring in a lot
of poems from famous poets.

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And the women in
the group were--

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they had no interest
in the famous poets.

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They wanted my poetry.

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So finally, I brought
in some of my own poems.

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And this poem that I read
to them they really took to.

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It's not a poem I would
normally read but it became

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a hit in the prison, you know.

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I wish that would to happen
outside of the prison,

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you know what I mean?

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[LAUGHTER]

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And it was being passed around
and after you hear the poem

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you'll either think, well,
why was it a hit in the prison

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or you'll understand
exactly why.

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"Chewing on the Bone".

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I cannot be no longer.

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I have come out against being.

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Being was a test and I am
being asked to test again,

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to test all day long.

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All questions
related to my being

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I am now referring to the
being that never came to be.

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Let that being feel this being.

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Let that being face the hours.

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Let that being
flag its beingness

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among the parade of beings.

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I am done.

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All evidence is in the drawers.

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All drawers are in the trees.

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All trees are in the
sea that is no longer.

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All queries should herein
be --herein be addressed

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to the superior being.

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I am in for the
night and the day.

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The mind is on strike
until further notice.

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The imagination is not
accepting applications.

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The picket line
will not be crossed.

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If it is crossed, so be it.

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The only work is idle work.

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Pacing, scribbling, mumbling,
remembering, and forgetting.

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If you want to take it let
it be your 9:00 to 5:00,

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your 8:00 to 6:00.

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Go be and be some more.

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Be until you are full of being.

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Maximum being,
idleness the capacity,

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the top in your class,
the traveling spokesman.

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The master teacher.

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The thought leader of
the thinking masses

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or the non-thinking hordes.

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You the Supreme being of
beingness so high up the ladder

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you will never be touched.

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Cannot be touched.

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The same way you cross
the line and never

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look back to touch the
being that touched you.

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