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You know, when Courier
came out early on,

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it just drove me bats.

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I couldn't take it--
that roundy business.

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Then I decided, in fact,
the poet Gregory St. Vincent

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Tomasino is fond
of bringing back

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that roundy deal in Courier.

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And I kind of finally
got the point of it,

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but it took me years.

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Well, I suppose, now,
it's time to close.

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So I'm going to
close with the poem

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that I always like
to close with.

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And this, as it happened,
DA Powell was here reading,

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and I said hello to him after
he did his very lovely reading.

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And he was the one that first
published this very poem

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20 years ago in Sonoma
Mandala magazine.

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And the poem is called,
"Falling in Love,

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Falling in Love
With You, Syntax."

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"Duties over, I am
falling in love,

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falling in love
with you, syntax.

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Things as they might be.

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Once I went with sad geology
who knew rocks not impurely,

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talked of rocks, touched the
soul that rocks may have.

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I drank a toast to new
tall order, meaning me.

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I drank a toast, taught
him to drink a toast,

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got sloshed with him and
dreamed of you prolifically.

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Falling in love, falling
in love with you, syntax.

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Gambling away bread money.

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Gambling away shoe money.

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Gambling away approximate
he-man ventures,

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limited partnerships, unlimited
in search of capital gain,

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in search of no-load
growth, in search of anger.

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Meanwhile, falling in love,
falling in love with you,

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syntax."

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Thank you.

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