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This is the last poem I'll read.

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Before I read it, I
want to thank you.

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It's good to stand here
and read from a place

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where so many poets have read.

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It's a poem called Distance.

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The light pulling
away from trees,

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the trees speaking in
shadows to whatever listens.

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Something that's common as
water turns away from our faces

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and leaves.

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The stars rise out of the
hills, old kings and animals

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marching in their
thin tunnels of light.

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Once more I find myself standing
as on a dark pier holding

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an enormous rope of silence.

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Thank you very much.

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