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Let me read one that turns
more whimsically perhaps.

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He did a very curious
thing, he published

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a poem called The
End, which is really

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a story about the end
or poem about the end

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of an affair, a love affair.

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And then sometime later,
in the same volume

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if I remember correctly.

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He republished the poem
but he had rewritten it

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almost as if he was aware that
he had written the poem once

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and maybe he had a
different version of it

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and now he had to
sort of say it again.

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And that's the real trademark
of an ironist I suppose.

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Well, here's the first
one called The End.

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When my girl walked out on
me, I put on my new suit

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and went to a cafe.

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Inside were three men, a tall
one, a fat one, and a thin one.

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The fat one were two red
flowers pinned over his breast.

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When I entered and they
saw me, the thin one

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rose and announced that's it.

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And he must have rethought
it because here it is again,

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the end.

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When my girl walked out
on me so I once wrote,

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I went to a cafe and inside
with three men, a tall one,

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a fat one, and a thin one.

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And the fat one wore flowers.

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The two red flowers pinned
over the breast of the fat one

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but not of the thin one.

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Actually when I entered
they never looked up.

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A moment like this
arrives one man

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enters and sits
down while another

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thinks it was the
wind turning the door

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or perhaps not even that.

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