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Well, for I'm closer
to home or to your home

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pulling my load
visiting D.H. Lawrence's

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shrine above Taos
several years ago.

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Still following the same
theme, "The Man Who Rode Away."

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"Above Taos now I peered through
the crack of your locked door,

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dead Lawrence and
there indeed I see

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they've got you now at last
safely stashed away locked away

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from the light of your dear
son in the weird great dark

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of your little shattered shrine
with the dark brown cover

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of your old portable,
clenched like a jaw

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upon dumb keys, teeth
sans, tongue as in a mute

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mask of a Greek megaphone.

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Here's real proof the
soul has its rages

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dampened in darkness,
shrine locked, booby trapped

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for burglars, plumed
serpent stoned

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into a gargoyle Lawrence,
Lawrence, bearded David,

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Phoenix flamed out of a mine
head, ash to ash sown in vaults

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and resold in America Del Norte.

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We're now here now your
portable seed has blown away.

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Other seeds are growing, not
yours Lawrence in the White

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Sands proving grounds.

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Lawrence, now I
see you come alone

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from your crib cabin all
fenced in the backyard compound

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of that big caretaker's house.

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You stand still a
moment in the still air,

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your eyes have a
Mexican look turn

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South over the arroyos,
ahora y siempre.

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Winter is coming.

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You have your tickets, you
have your blue denim jacket,

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you have your crazy Stetson.

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Your tin Phoenix
tacked to a tree drops

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in a gift shop window.

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A mistrial wind rattles the
pine needles of your bones."

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[APPLAUSE]

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That reminds me I went up to
see the D.H. Lawrence Shrine,

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it was locked the
day I was there

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and I could only peer
in through the door.

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And Robert Creeley said, "See
there's his crazy Stetson."

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That's where that
line came from.

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His wife I believe is
buried across the doorway,

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I mean in the ground.

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So my memory may be wrong
it's been four or five years.

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But it seemed to me you
had to cross over her

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to get to the poet which is
often the case with living

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poets I find, if you
can get past the wife,

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you might be able
to talk to the poet.

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I don't mean to be
derogatory to wives

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like Kenneth Patchen's wife
guards him very lovingly.

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And he needs it.

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He's a great American poet
who's very sick in Palo Alto.

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