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The next poem is entitled
"The Garden of Eden."

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And some people have
told me it's obscure,

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so I will give you a
little background of it.

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Some years ago, there was a
flood in the Trinity River,

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in Fort Worth, Texas.

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And a python escaped
from the zoo.

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And he became the subject
of many, many news stories,

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and was dubbed Pete the Python,
as only the press can do things

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like that.

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"People on stoic water wheels
paddle down the Trinity River,

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where a long python once
threw panic into the marzipan

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hearts of zoo marsupials.

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He was celebrated, sung all
the month that he lasted.

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An Orinoco of days,
he bent around trees

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while they fired salvos of shots
down the river to faze him.

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Hero to the tabloids,
a dapper Apollo,

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he had the park to himself.

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He slept in rosy
trash barrels by day,

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and dreamed of samurai
sashes of lady snakes

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draped on a tree, then of plump,
plump kinkajous, tangentially.

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Below Fort Worth, the cotton
mouths, the green graved garter

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snakes, the kings, since the
one whose art transmogrified

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on supple stone went
beyond all glossolalia.

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Whose simple pain writhed in
the sunlight, tarred as a dragon

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in a St Georgetown.

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The python's gone, whose name
was famous in the Trinity, who

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coiled like a secret in the
twisty succulents, safer

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than anyone".

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