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I'd like to do an
early poem for you.

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I don't read this
very often, because I

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don't read most of my early
poems anymore, I recite them,

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but I'm running a
little short of poems,

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and I have some
more I want to do.

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This is really one that--

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I consider this perhaps the
best poem I've ever written,

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but I don't think
most people that know

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my work would agree with me.

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And I did it long, long time
ago, over 20 years ago I guess,

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now it's called Duwamish.

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And Duwamish is this
Seattle's big river

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which comes into Elliott
Bay there in Seattle.

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Midwestern in the heat
this river's curves are

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slow and sick--

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midwestern in the heat this
river's curves are slow

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and sick

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Water knocks at Mills
and concrete plants

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and crud compounds the--

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I'm sorry I can't do it.

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I know it, but I can't do it.

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Oh I'll do it a love poem.

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I'll do a love poem for you.

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That's it.