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I've written a lot
of poems on poetry.

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And as most of us
do, we write poetry.

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And here's one
titled Our Dreams.

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I've wanted to write
my way into paradise,

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leaving the door open for
the rest of us to walk into.

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Instead I am scribbling
beneath its walls

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while the door remains shut.

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What is the magic word?

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Is there a magic word?

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Am I standing beneath
the walls of paradise?

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Does paradise have walls?

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Have I come to the right place?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Friends, strangers, and
relatives look at me patiently

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over sneers, or amused
tolerance and crowd around me,

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waiting for the door to open.

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But all I can offer
are those questions.

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And they see me uneasy.

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I sit down to lean my
back against the wall,

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to close my eyes,
to rest, to sleep,

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to dream of the paradise we
were to enter at my words.

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And I say to them finally,
go and dream, too,

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to quiet yourselves.

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And perhaps imagine
that in the dream

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is where we live our dreams.