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And finally, preceded
by a statement

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of my gratitude
for your patience,

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a poem called "Put
Back the Dark,"

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which ends the book
and the reading.

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Let's not stop and
cold, in drought,

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but blanket and
seed our own bed.

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We'll be a long time dead.

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We walk now on stilts,
on dagger heels,

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through the howling of
impatience and the ailing

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imprisoned.

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We walk now through
the jails, nothing

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to provide a notion of
being free leading us

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from these helpless, away
from ambition and vanity

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toward the comfort of
solitude like a tree

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living two-thirds in death.

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There is nothing
left to resist where

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there is nothing irresistible.

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So these poor cities
fade from vision,

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not maniacally, but
as an old memory,

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which was not important to that
dream when your hand into mine

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put back the dark

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So, thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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