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This is a short poem by a friend
of mine, a poet from Washington

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by the name of Mark Halperin.

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It's a very short eight
line poem about John

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Clare the romantic poet,
English romantic poet, who

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has spent a good deal of his
adult life in a mental hospital

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and apparently
fairly pleasant stay.

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He had the run of
the estate, I guess,

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and it's just a very
nice short poem.

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"John Clare."

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Sometimes there
is a man, I never

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feel him come but he is
who I am, and I am someone.

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He does not care to stay,
if we are both John Clare,

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why does he go away
and where and where?

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