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I wrote a poem about Eurydice.

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I was thinking at
the time about--

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well, I was thinking about
some boyfriends I had at first.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Then I was thinking about
Orpheus and how so many poems

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had been written
in praise of what

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he had gathered
from the underworld

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and brought back of his songs.

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And so I wanted to write a
poem from her point of view--

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Eurydice.

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"I linger, knowing
you are eager,

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having seen the strange
world where I live,

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to return to your
friends, wearing the bells

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and singing the songs
which are my morning,

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with the water in them,
with their strange rhythms.

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I know you will
not take me back.

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Will take me almost
to the world,

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but not out to
house color leaves.

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Not to the sacred world that
is so easy for you, my love.

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Inside my mind and in my body is
a darkness which I am equal to,

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but my heart is not.

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Yesterday, you read
the Troubadour poets

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in the bathroom doorway
while I painted my eyes

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for the journey.

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While I took tiredness
away from my face,

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you read of that singer in
the garden with the woman

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he swore to love forever.

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You were always curious
what love is like.

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Wanted to meet me,
not bring me home.

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Now you whistle, putting
together the new words,

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learning the songs to tell
the others how far you

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traveled for me.

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Singing of my desire to live.

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Oh, if you knew what
you do not know.

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I could be in the world,
remembering this--

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I did not cry as
much in the darkness

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as I will when we
part in the dimness.

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Near the opening, which
is the way in for you

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and was the way out
for me, my love."

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[APPLAUSE]

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