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Oh, I have a very--

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I have a bit of a
junior version of that.

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It's just a little poem that is
also the result of an irritant

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rather than inspiration.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And it's about
another expression

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that has invaded our
culture, and the poem

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is called "Oh, My God."

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I realized after I
wrote this, oddly

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as it sounds grammatically, that
the expression "oh, my god,"

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has a past tense.

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The past sense of "oh, my god,"
is, "I was, like, oh, my god.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Here we just-- you're
familiar with this.

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So here --it's nine
lines long It's spoken

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by a very naive observer.

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"Oh, My God."

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Not only in church, and
nightly by their bed sides,

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do young girls pray these days.

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Wherever they go, prayer
is woven into their talk.

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Like a bright thread of awe.

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Even at the pedestrian mall,
outbursts of praise spring

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unbidden from their glossy lips.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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