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I'm going to read the-- yeah,
I hadn't planned to read this.

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But this is a poem called
"Home from Russia."

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I wrote the poem before
I went to Russia.

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But sometimes, I find
that I write poems

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in anticipation of experience.

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I've been reading about
a book on plant biology.

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And that's how the poem started.

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And I ended up thinking
about coming back from Russia

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before I'd even go on.

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"Season of Calypso, winter
and the solitary leaf.

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I've just returned from Moscow.

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And they were there,
a great many people.

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While I was away, leaves fell,
and another dark November.

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It has all happened before.

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And at this moment
in Leningrad, a taxi

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rumbles through
almost empty streets.

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Night has fallen,
the rain stopped.

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I slam the door of the cab.

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My shoes skim over the
glistening pavement,

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trying to catch me."

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