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So I'll warm myself
up with Mr. Miyazawa.

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Now, I'm going to
read a few poems

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from a manuscript in progress.

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It's going to be a
cycle of 12 poems named

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for the months
entitled Six Years.

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12 poems, all of them most
flatly and most concretely

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based on my physical
experience in Japan.

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And I think I'll
read three of these.

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The first one is
titled "February."

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Water taps running,
the sun part out,

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cleaning house, sweeping
floor, knocking cobwebs

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off the shoji, pap, pap.

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Wiping the wood and the
mats with a wet rag,

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hands and knees on the veranda.

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Cat prints, make them a
footwiper of newspaper.

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Wash the motorcycle.

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Fold clothes.

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Start a new fire under the kama.

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Fill Mrs. Hosaka's
kerosene stove tank.

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Get the cat hairs
out of the kotatsu.

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Take the sheets in
from the bamboo poles

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where they are drying.

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Put away poles.

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Stand them up below the eaves
and tie them with strings.

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Scrub out the floor of the bath
and move the mirror and towel

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rack.

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Sweep out the genkan footprints.

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Oil the clutch cable of the
motorcycle through the oil

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nipple under the handle grip.

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Take off sweater now
because it's too hot.

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Put back on the denim jacket.

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Work.

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Nansen mews angrily
because he feels so sick.

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All the different
animals are persons.

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What will I do about liberation?

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6:40, bath.

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Charcoal, black, the fire
part, red, the ash, pure white.

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