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I'm going to read
two more new ones

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and then end with an older
one that John Anderson asked

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me to read and am
very happy reading it.

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The first one I'm going to
read is very silly, very

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recent, I probably shouldn't
read it but am going to.

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It's a poem called "Scenic
View" "Scenic View".

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Now I was driving--

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I was being driven out
in the desert a bit today

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and I saw places where you could
turn off the road and park,

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and look or take photographs.

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But thank heaven they
just said a parking space,

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they didn't say scenic view.

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In New Hampshire and
Vermont and so on,

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the authorities
apparently have so much

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contempt to the intelligence
of the motorists

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that they put up signs saying
scenic view in case you know,

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so you can stop--

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I don't know what you're
supposed to be doing--

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playing solitaire in the
back seat or something?

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You can look up and see
and go, Oh, take a picture,

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so very offensive I think.

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I'd like to decide what's
the scenic view for myself,

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I'm sorry.

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Anyway, this is
called scenic view.

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And well, at Cliff's edge
they photograph our mountains.

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Every year, the hills turned
paler and more distant,

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trees less green, rock piles
disappearing as emulsion

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from a billion Kodak's
sucks color out.

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[LAUGHTER]

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In a decade or two, Monadnock,
Kearsarge, and Washington

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will become wholly invisible.

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All tint removed,
atom by atom to albums

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in Medford and Greenwich.

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While over the valleys
the still solid granite

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rears with unseeable
peaks fatal to airplanes.

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Like transparent fish
hovering in the glass fish

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bowls water colored water.

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Another-- thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Another Luddite poem
for the Sierra Club.

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I bet you didn't know that
about cameras and motion.

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It was all right when we took
black and white pictures,

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but since then, it's-- you've
been noticing everything

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getting paler.

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