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The last poem is called
"The Weather in Luxembourg."

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And it's probably
a confusing poem

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I guess although it
clears up at the end.

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I guess I'll go back
some time to it.

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But the mood of the
poem is supposed

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to be something like the
weather in Luxembourg

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and the political climate say
in a kingdom, which is probably

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the end of something.

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It's a small kingdom.

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Rains a lot as I remember.

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But you pass through Luxembourg
on the way to other places

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when you go to Europe and
you never seem to stay there.

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The weather in Luxembourg.

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The weather in Luxembourg
is like a prayer

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that this life could be
dismissed as effortlessly

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empty of notches.

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And I would say
without remorse that

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mirror this has been my
life, the pain and the door.

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It's fast asleep.

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And this the collapsing day with
stars, distant and harmless.

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But always at this time I am
too calm to welcome even death

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sliding through the trees.

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He knows where he's not, wanted.

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He's been a gentleman
all his life.

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His wife died in her sleep.

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The temperature in
Luxembourg is 78 degrees.

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The last of a line
of unimportant kings

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sits in the garden eating lunch.

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In the city of the living, his
burgers are choosing sides.

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There are so many
decisions they could make.

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Silence, choose at their ears.

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They need to rest.

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Already in the upstairs
rooms, their wives and mothers

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settle into green sofas,
vowing allegiances to chastity.

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They've had enough.

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Their soft gum sucked
noisily like bowls of clams.

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I could turn off as easily.

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I want never to have
accomplished anything.

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To be the last quiet man of my
kind, standing in the pasture.

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It is nearing the
end of the afternoon.

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It seems I've been preparing
for this a long time

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but I can't stop smiling.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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