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I have a sequel to it that I
wrote about eight years later

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it's in-- that was
in my first book

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On The Edge, which
is out of print

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and from which I rarely read
because it's out of print.

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This is in Not
This Pig, published

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by Wesleyan Publishing
Company, I no longer like.

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I discovered that
they were Methodists.

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They discovered I
was a communist--

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[LAUGHTER]

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So it's mutual
parting of the ways.

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I'm now published by a
International Bible Society,

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and the books get around,
they really get around.

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My hope is eventually
to be a comic book.

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I wrote this about eight years
seven or eight years later,

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things are much worse--

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[LAUGHTER]

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Because, not
because we're older,

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and not because we
love each other less,

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but because it's a
harder time to live.

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Our children are getting older
and there's a war going on,

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and the sons are
summoned by the war.

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It's the last section
of a long poem called

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the "Morning After the Storm."

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And we've awakened after
a violent physical storm

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and my wife is trying to put the
yard together and I survey her.

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I call her Indian,
and she's part Indian

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and I call her Indian
in the end of the poem.

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The winds and the dogs
brought down the garbage.

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Ostrich-like my wife picks
at the tidbits on the lawn.

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The wet winds gust and her
night clothes flap around her.

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In her 40th year she
stoops, and pecks,

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and clears our little yard.

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She turns away from nothing:
grounds, bottles, bones,

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egg shells, animal fat, the
splintered plastic guns,

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the burned out bulbs,
and swollen batteries,

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all the refuse of this house.

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The sky clenches again.

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Our three sons grow toward war.

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Child of the land, Indian,
you cannot live here anymore.

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Which is a paraphrase of
something she said to me.

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Want to leave the country,
we did leave the country,

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we lived two years in Spain.

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You might wonder why
Spain, well, it's

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hard to leave California
saying go to a free country.

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You wouldn't know how to behave.

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I feel perfectly at home
in Arizona, for example.

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And Spain was like
the mother country,

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I felt much freer
there actually.

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