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Well three.

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I mean four, but
they're quite short.

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The first three are from--

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no wait a minute, I think I'm
going to do this differently.

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Are we-- OK.

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Never mind, they are new poems.

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"Qualm".

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"Warren G Harding invented
the word 'normalcy',

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[LAUGHTER]

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And which is true, I believe.

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And the lesser-known
'bloviate'--

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seems to be a very apt
occasion to read this poem--

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meaning, one imagines, to
spout, to spew aimless verbiage.

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He never wanted to be president.

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The 'Ohio Gang' made him.

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He died in the Palace
Hotel in San Francisco,

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coming back from Alaska.

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As his wife was reading
to him, about him,

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from The Saturday Evening Post.

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Poor Warren.

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He wasn't a bad egg, just weak.

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He loved women and Ohio.

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This imagined summer
of fatal grace,

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a new golf star
flashes like confetti,

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across the intoxicating
early part of summer.

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Almost to the end of August.

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The crowd is hysterical.

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Fickle as always,
they follow him

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almost to the edge
of the inferno

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but the fall is
deliciously, only his.

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They shall communicate
this and that,

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and compute fixed names
like doorstep in the wind.

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The agony is permanent
rather than eternal.

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He'd have noticed it.

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Poor Warren.""

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