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So that's the lyrics, that book.

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And then I thought I
would read some prose.

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But I won't.

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So [LAUGHTER] instead,
I'm going to read

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a little batch of new
poems from where I've

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been living in Washington, DC.

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"Sunset in DC comes at 4:56.

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This is nearly the same
time as sunset in LA

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when the El Royale
sign lights up.

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Sunset in Shannon comes several
minutes earlier in the day.

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Sunsets in Hong Kong and
Havana are just about the same

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but far away.

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Sunset in Chile and
sunset in New Zealand

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are only six minutes
apart on different days.

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The length of today in Boston
is 9 hours and 51 minutes.

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The length of today in DC
is 10 hours and 7 minutes.

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I knew there was a
difference between cities.

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Don't worry.

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You didn't have to tell me
about the transit of the sun.

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If the light is
shining in the House,

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Congress is still in session.

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Of course, the
shape of the Earth

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is an oblate spheroid, wider in
the middle by very few miles.

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Even here on 21st
Street, I can feel

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the sun moving in Vancouver.

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There are 12 hours of light
on one day in October.

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I only needed to exist to
know that the sun turns

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around the Earth.

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We are the center
of the universe."

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