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It does read better in Yiddish.

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The Yiddish jokes go better--

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they work better
here in Arizona.

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I made a Yiddish
joke in Los Angeles,

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and they just looked at me like,
what are you talking about?

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What's wrong with you?

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It was really bizarre.

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Skylight Books in
LA in Los Feliz--

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it was a great bookstore.

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But when they don't
laugh at your jokes,

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how great can it be?

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I'm going to read
the shortest poem

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in the book, which I
still can't memorize

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and the simplest poem--

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"Stones."

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"I would like to be
a stone by the side

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of a road on a roadless
island, of no interest to man,

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of no curiosity to animals,
invisible to birds.

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I would like to
step out of my stone

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and be another stone on the
other side of the road prized

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by man, of solace to
animals, a spot for birds.

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And on my stone,
both stones please."

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