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I'm going to read a couple
of more poems from Otherwise

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Elsewhere, and then I'm
going to read some new poems.

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So one of the
things that I wanted

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to do more of in this
book, was to kind of

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say, yes, to pleasure.

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It's called "Plural Happiness."

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My wife's name is Michaela.

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"Plural Happiness"

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"A curtain bellying
like a pregnant cloud,

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warm white light refracted
through a tumbler

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of peat-smoked scotch.

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A scorcher of a day cooling
and, with stupendous

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berries to eat in
lieu of supper,

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the scoffed pipe
box of blueberries

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chased by a half a cantaloupe
and Maytag blue cheese spread

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across the remains of
last night's baguette.

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A plural happiness.

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I feel encourage for
all within range.

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Even the hang-gliding error
that sent Jesus spiraling down

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to Earth seems a commitment.

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Tomorrow we'll go to Alison's
wedding, who at age 2 and 3/4

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attended our wedding
26 years ago,

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her blonde curls a mystery to
be held up and photographed

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between her mother and father,
dark haired Diane and Larry.

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In the riddle of
our recessive genes,

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once in a while
something surprising

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waits for anybody out and about.

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Like hearing for the first
time a blind preacher

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or waking in a Gros Vent
campground south of Jenny Lake,

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the best happiness is always
accidental, and why not?

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I was going to say something
about boundless back there,

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or was it getting
gassed, I meant?

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But that isn't it
exactly either.

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Though it is pretty close.

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Close enough.

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And real.

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Real enough, and sure.

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God it felt good to
heat water and primus

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stove while yawning and to
wash my face in cold Gros Vent

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and love Michaela."

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