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Well, let's see now.

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Let me read you a poem to
WCW, whose initials should

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be familiar to some of you,
William Carlos Williams.

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We were good friends
for a long while.

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And this is a poem
about his death.

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"Three in Transition."

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That is three sections
in transition,

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three short sections.

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I wish I understood the beauty
and leaves falling to whom

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are we beautiful as we go.

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I lie in the field still
absorbing the stars

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and silently throwing
off their presence.

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Silently I breathe
and die by turns.

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He was ripe and fell to
the ground from a bow,

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out where the wind is
free of the branches.

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