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And this one is called
"The Other Tradition."

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They all came.

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Some more sentiments
emblazoned on t-shirts,

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proclaiming the
lateness of the hour.

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And indeed, the sun
slanted its rays

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through branches
of Norfolk Island,

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pine is though politely
clearing its throat.

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And all ideas settled
in a fuzz of dust

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under trees when it's drizzling.

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The endless games of
scrabble, the boosters,

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the celebrated Omelet O' Cantor.

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And through it,
the roar of time,

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plunging unchecked through
the sluices of the days,

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dragging every
sexual moment of it

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past the lenses, the
end of something.

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Only then did you glance
up from your book,

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unable to comprehend what
had been taking place,

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or say what you
had been reading.

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More cheers were brought
and lamps were lit,

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but it tells nothing of
how all this proceeded

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to materialize before you.

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And the people waiting outside
and in the next street,

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repeating its name
over and over,

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until silence moved halfway
up the darkened trunks,

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and the meeting was
called to order.

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I still remember
how they found you,

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after a dream and
your thimble hat,

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studious as a butterfly
in a parking lot.

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The road home was
nicer then, dispersing

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each of the Troubadours
had something

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to say about how charity had
run its race and one leaving you

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the ex-president of the event.

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And how, though many
of those present

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had wished something
to come of it, if only

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a distant wisp of smoke.

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Yet none was so
deceived as to hanker

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after that cool non-being of
just a few minutes before, now

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that the idea of a
forest had clamped itself

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over the minutia of the scene.

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You found this charming,
but turn your face fully

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toward night, speaking
into it like a megaphone,

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not hearing or caring.

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Although these still
live and are generous

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and always contained, allowed
to come and go indefinitely,

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in and out of the stockade.

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They have so much
trouble remembering

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when you are forgetting.

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Rescues them at last, as
the star absorbs the night.

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