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Here's the poem Steve
mentioned, "The Thin Man."

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It's a short poem and it
has very thin lines, which

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I felt would be appropriate.

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And I should, I
think, explain that it

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is a reply to a poem by a friend
of mine called "The Fat Man."

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That is, my friend isn't
called "The Fat Man,"

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not to his face anyway.

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But he wrote a
poem, which I like.

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Though I couldn't
sympathize with it

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because he talked about
what a great pleasure it

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was to be fat, and therefore
free to indulge yourself

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in all the pleasures of
the world, opened for you.

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And I was trying to take the
other side of the question.

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It's a personal
poem, in that sense.

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"The Thin Man."

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"I indulge myself in rich
refusals, nothing suffices.

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I hone myself to this edge.

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Asleep, I am a horizon."

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So there wasn't much to be said
on my side of the question.

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[LAUGHTER]

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His poem goes on for
about a page and a half.

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