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There are two poems, looking
back on my history as a poet,

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that I think are good.

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The others, I'm
not so sure about.

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This is one of them.

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All of you struggle with
demons, all of us do.

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That's the human
condition, and poets

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do that in a particular way.

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And so this is for
all of you, the poets.

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You tell me there is a place
in the universe for those

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who wrestle with demons.

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Tell me, what did the devil
do with my lost years?

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Did he eat them?

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Did he fall into a
sound sleep, and so

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spare a single soul from pain?

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I don't think so.

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And why, all these
years later, must

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I forgive him long
enough to touch

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with love all that was lost?

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Forgive myself long enough
to write these poems.

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