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I told you there were no
funny poems in the book.

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You know what I mean.

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I mean, I-- you know.

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[INDISTINCT CHATTER]

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There were some
funny ones in there.

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Because we're in
Arizona I'm going

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to read the next few
poems in Yiddish.

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[LAUGHTER]

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''Gymnast in the Dark."

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Something is wrong and
you don't know what it is.

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The ladder to your thoughts
is where you left it.

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The inventory of your feelings
is cataloged and stacked.

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The rooftops, which log
your horizon at night,

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billow the same
smoke at morning.

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Socks are in the drawer.

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The bed is made.

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Something is wrong and
you don't know what it is.

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Memories travel the same
tunnel to reach you.

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Voices find the same bridge
to cross your empty space.

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The people you
know do not change

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what you know about yourself.

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Your shadows
capture your weight.

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The sun does not discriminate.

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Something is wrong and
you don't know what it is.

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You enter every room.

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You exit empty handed.

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You ask the silence
to invert itself

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like a gymnast in the dark.

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Your mind and your
heart are one.

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The body does not lie.

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Something is wrong and
you don't know what it is.

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Light after light
and you keep walking.

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You turn corners and
square your breath.

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Night weighs the sky as
oceans scale the rain.

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You are part of the universe.

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The universe is at sea.

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