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The title of this
runs into the poem.

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"The pornographic but
serious history"--

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of myself, begging your
pardon, as a young man,

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quick to draw arms,
quick to take offense

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for daggers toward my heart,
quick to shoot from the hip,

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fast to let fly
in all directions.

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As if to injure
fatally the unsettled.

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Just recognized in myself,
which is why, in the end,

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I take myself for example.

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But what the new critic
says isn't proof.

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And a thin line is
shifting, again,

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between comic and
tragic, body and spirit,

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and the wife doesn't
know her husband.

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Not to fill up with
history but no ideas.

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Not to merely see life
and think it images.

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Not to think morality
a bad medicine,

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does the husband offer his
boyhood to his wife's mouth.

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The words are a white balm.

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The self heated to the
temper of its time.

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Come on in.

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[LAUGHS]

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I haven't much to say
between the poems.

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So if someone enters, that
affords a wonderful occasion

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for pausing.

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So I owe him a debt.

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That's good.

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