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Thank you.

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This is a little poem which
plays around with cliches.

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It's called "Adage."

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"When it's late at
night and branches

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are banging against
the windows, you

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might think that love is
just a matter of leaping out

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of the frying pan of yourself
into the fire of someone else,

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but it's a little more
complicated than that.

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It's more like trading
the two birds who

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might be hiding in
that bush for the one

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you are not holding
in your hand.

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A wise man once
said that love was

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like forcing a horse
to drink but then

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everyone stopped
thinking of him as wise.

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Let us be clear about something.

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Love is not as
simple as getting up

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on the wrong side of the bed
wearing the emperor's clothes.

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No, it's more like the
way the pen feels after it

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has defeated the sword.

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It's a little like
the penny saved

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or the nine dropped stitches.

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You look at me through the
halo of the last candle

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and tell me that love
is an ill wind that

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has no turning, a road
that blows no good,

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but I am here to remind
you, as our shadows

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tremble on the walls, that
love is the early bird who

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is better late than never."

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