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I read these poems--

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the first reading when my
youngest son came to-- we

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were living for the summer up in
the mountains in New Hampshire.

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And I had promised
him after the reading

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that we would go down
to the town dump,

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because there were
supposed to be

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black bears in the dump
late in the evening.

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And he wanted to
look at a black bear.

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And so we went down there.

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And the gate was locked.

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So we went to elaborate trouble,
and climbed over the gate,

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and walked in.

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And there weren't any there.

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And we were driving home.

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And he said, I think
I wrote a poem.

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And I said, what is the poem?

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He said, a night of July,
going to the Franconia dump,

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looking for bears.

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Didn't see any.

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[LAUGHTER]

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