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This poem is called
"How the Friends Met."

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It's a poem, it's about
four years old or so.

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And it still seems to me to
be a fairly decent description

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of how one goes
about making friends.

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Or at least the friends
I end up making.

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"So what do you do?

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What can you do?

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Leave the room altogether?

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Crazy.

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Your eyes are the wallpaper.

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Makes it tough, doesn't it?

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Peel them away.

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You call that pain, it's not.

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It's insane.

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You make it.

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Keep going.

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Confront a light pole.

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Smoke a mythopoeic
cigarette forever.

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Mark a spot with
your mysterious shoe.

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Scratch hate in the sidewalk.

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A man will come
along and there will

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be reason enough to knife him.

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Sure enough, there comes
along a worse than Bogart.

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There you are, smoking
the light pole.

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The spot you marked
appears between your eyes

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and then becomes the sidewalk.

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And the man walks right up
the sidewalk, into your room,

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looks at the
wallpaper and laughs.

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So, what do you do?

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What can you do?

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Kick him out?

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Hell no.

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You charge him rent."

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHING]

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