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And then I'll end up with a
few poems from Come And See.

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And these-- the title of
Come And See is from a movie

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by Elem Klimov a
Russian film maker

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who was in the 60s at the
same time as Tarkovsky,

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but he was not well known.

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And I happened on his movie
before I went to St Petersburg

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and it made a deep impression.

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It's also from the apocalypse
where Christ calls out

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come and see, wanting the world
to see what terrible things

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we've done to it.

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And it starts--

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I start this with
a poem called--

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of little set of poems
called "This Eye" as in eye

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and it's a kind of
channeling of a grandmother.

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Well, I am a grandmother.

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But she's strange to me,
I don't know who she is.

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"I see a child between
a star and a boat.

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It's a silhouette, and
there is the child again,

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now attached to the
boat, all black.

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Look at the weather, the
futile wipers beating.

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I see the child on dry
land, now with his granny.

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Like the boy in a story, he
sees fire in wood and words

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in smoke.

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And he's good, too good to
be far from anyone old."

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