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I'll read one more poem
also about the movie

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"The Past" called
"Thinking About the Past".

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There are several names in it, a
friends of mine in adolescence.

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One I'd like to identify it.

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I don't think it's
quite clear without

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a little identification,
though, it may be suggested.

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I mentioned a friend
named Benton in the poem.

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Benton was the
friend with whom I

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smoked my first
pack of cigarettes,

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who died a few years
ago of a lung ailment.

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Thinking about the past.

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Certain moments will never
change, nor stop being.

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My mother's face all
smiles, all wrinkles soon.

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The rock wall building,
build, collapse, then fallen.

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Our upright loosening
downward slowly out of tune;

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all fixed into place now,
all rhyming with each other.

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That red-haired girl
with wide mouth,

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Eleanor, forgotten 30 years.

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Her freckled shoulders, hands,
the breast of Mary something.

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Freed from a white
swimsuit, damp, sandy, warm.

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Or Marjorie's, a small cot bird.

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Darkness they rise from,
darkness they sink back toward.

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How marvelous early cigarettes,
oh, bitter smoke Benton.

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And Kenny in wartime whites
crisp cocky time, a bow bent

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with his certain failure.

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Dusks, dawns, waves
the ends of songs.

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That's all.

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Thank you very much.

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[APPLAUSE]

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