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"Tomorrow."

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This poem starts
off with two lines,

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I think are the funniest
I've ever written.

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I'll read them first, then
get them out of the way.

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It turns into a much
more serious tone

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as most of my poems do--

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I try to get interested in
them by starting them out

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in a semi-humorous way trying,
I suppose to humor myself

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into writing them.

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And at any rate, the
first two lines are,

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"Your best friend is gone,
your other friend, too."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Seems helplessly pathetic to me.

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This is for all of you
who have only two friends.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Tomorrow."

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"Your best friend is gone,
your other friend, too.

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Now the dream that used
to turn in your sleep,

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like a diamond sails into
the year's coldest night.

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What did you say?

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Or was it something you did?

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It makes no difference--

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the house of breath collapsing
around your voice, your voice

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burning, are nothing
to worry about.

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Tomorrow your friends
will come back.

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Your moist open mouth will bloom
in the glass of storefronts.

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Yes.

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Yes.

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Tomorrow they will
come back and you

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will invent an ending
that comes out right."

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It's sad.

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