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Well, I'm going to read a
poem called "Impotence,"

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that requires a disclaimer.

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So remember the
biographic fallacy.

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I get to tell a
story first, there's

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a wonderful poet named John
Logan, I suspect he's read here

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or at least you know his work.

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A number of years
ago he wrote a review

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for the Chicago Review, a review
of a book by Edward Dahlberg,

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a book called
Because I Was Flesh.

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And in that review
Logan said this

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is a book about man's
old hell with his prick,

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so a short time later there
was a University of Chicago

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faculty party and a
couple of young professors

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got a hold of Mr
Logan and I said, gee,

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we thought your
review was marvelous,

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but one thing bothered us, why
did you have to use that word?

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Why couldn't you
have said penis?

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And Logan is
supposed to replied,

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because no one ever had
any trouble with his penis.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So this is called "Impotence."

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Suddenly her breast
has never been larger.

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All night she's
been on your back.

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How can you tell her your
testicles have fallen off?

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It's serious, all right.

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It's just the beginning.

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When the balls go can
the penis be long behind?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Soon Steve, you'll be left
with nothing but scar tissue.

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Where once you were
the cock of the walk--

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it gets worse--

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[LAUGHTER]

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Soon you'll be the laughing
stock of Niagara Falls.

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It's no delight you've got
yourself over this barrel.

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You know how far down it
was from the beginning.

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All those years you were
combing it out of your hair,

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the hair itself was falling out.

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If now you're exposed--

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it was an awkward place to
end the line, wasn't it?

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If now you're exposed as
the foolish romantic, why?

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That's what you deserve,
foolish romantic.

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You wanted orgasm in repose.

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You wanted love without memory.

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You earnestly desired
beautiful women in bondage,

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their feelings held hostage.

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And for a while there you
were right in the thick of it.

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Now, you have the lowest
membership of all.

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Now, you are nothing
anyone would love.

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Now, you were a figure
of total submission.

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So what if you could
do anything once?

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Why are you even bringing
up these matters of taste?

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Now, the end is near.

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Now, you limp along.

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Goodbye A, goodbye
B. Don't hate me

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C. Farewell D. I'm
not letting you go,

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just turning you
over for a while.

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[APPLAUSE]

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This is very funny, isn't it?

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