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Next poem is also a love poem.

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

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It's called "The Coming
Out of Ourselves Party."

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

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You wanted to be strong.

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I wanted to congratulate
all of us on giving in.

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Gum wrappers or
wriggling in the sun,

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Mrs. Mendoza's voice rattles
around Jefferson Street

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two times and ends spinning
like a BB in a can.

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Then I thought of all
the women I had ever had.

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I appreciate the patronage,
thanks for kindly dropping in.

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But the King
relinquishes his zither.

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We were last together
at the Colonial Inn

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in Concord, Massachusetts.

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We had a free
television, we were

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allowed to park without
charge and given a direct dial

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telephone.

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Sixty air conditioned
rooms, including

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the Thoreau room, the Emerson
bar, and the Hawthorne John.

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

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You wanted to have integrity.

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What a day, the clerk said.

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The sky is just
disheveling overhead.

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The pulse of the
Earth is slowing.

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On this street, there
is not even a radio.

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The days continue
to eat each other.

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The doors grow little and thick.

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Always, finally,
we are untouched.

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This was to be the coming
out of ourselves party

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to which we should
all look forward.

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This was to be bigger than life.

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This, the inside story.

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[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]

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