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This one is called "The Summer
of the Watergate Hearings."

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I didn't write it last summer.

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I wrote it, believe it or
not, the summer before,

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the summer of '73, when the
hearings were being televised

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every night for the benefit of
the working man who couldn't

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see them between 9:00 and 5:00.

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And so I used to watch them up
at the farm on the television.

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"The Summer of the
Watergate Hearings."

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"I wake in New Hampshire.

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The sun is still withheld.

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For six days, Amanda has stood
through drizzles and downpours.

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This morning, she steams.

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Little pyramids of her
droppings surround her.

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Dead worms shine in them
like forgotten spaghetti,

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proof she has eaten
the sugarcoated cure.

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Four dozen ascarids,
10 strongyles,

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I count them to make sure.

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And all the while,
in Washington, worms

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fall out of the government,
pale as the parasites

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that drain from the
scoured gut of my mare.

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They blink open on
the television screen.

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Night after night on the rerun,
I count them to make sure."

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