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I want to read a section
from my long poem Greed.

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I think I'll do it now while
you still have the energy

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to sit in your seat.

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This is the eighth
part of Greed.

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And I seem to have appointed
myself the moral legislator

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of the poetry world.

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I have seen all of
its hideous politics

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at work and the worst
of all possible ways.

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And constantly being stunned
and appalled by the fact

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that people call
themselves poets,

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and would seem to be
involved in some way

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in the purities of life and the
beauties of real relationships.

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And an attempt to understand
the richness of the world

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can get themselves
involved in the most

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banal and foolish and petty
and terrible kinds of politics.

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And basically the
poets are human beings,

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so they suffer from exactly the
same diseases that all of us

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suffer from.

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The kind of greed that
I'm trying to write about

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in this poem is
something that all of us

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suffer from at some
point in our lives.

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And it's about the desire
to be what you're not.

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And at the same time, still
cling to what you are.

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And for me the
definition of greed

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is being unwilling to make a
choice in a situation wanting

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everything.

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And I think that it's--

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the human responsibility
to have to make choices.

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And it's the greedy and
foolish, and sometimes evil

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man who will not.

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What made me write this poem
was reading a book of poems

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by another poet
whom I'm not going

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to mention from the platform.

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Although, I'm going to quote
some of his lines in this poem.

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Beautiful lines as
a matter of fact.

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But a man who has had a
charmed life in every way

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and who has no appreciation
for what that's about,

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and he suddenly discovered that
poets are supposed to suffer.

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And so he's gone
around trying to suffer

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for the last few years wrecking
as many things around him

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as he can.

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And kind of trump up this
suffering into his poems and it

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made me very, very angry because
it seems to me that there's

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so much suffering in
the world that you don't

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need to generate anymore of it.

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And believe me, I don't care
how charmed your life has been.

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You better appreciate
it while it's

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charmed because it's not going
to stay that way all the time.

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And so this man not
only seemed to be

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rather villainous to
me in masquerading

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as what he was
not, but extremely

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foolish because he
was asking for trouble

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that he didn't need.

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And he was ignoring his own
beautiful gifts in a way

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that I consider terrible.

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It's called "The Darker Wishes--

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To a Machine Who
Wishes to Be a Man.

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The Sad Beautiful Music
of the Poetry Robot."

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And there are quite a few of
those people in the world,

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actually.

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I singled out this man
because I know about his life.

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"In the cover of his
darkness, his owl,

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a bird of purity and
wisdom sits in a white wood

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speckled with a deep soft
feathers of perfection.

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Who, who am I?

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He asks in the
voice of a singer.

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In the voice of an ugly
man who loves beauty,

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in the voice of a man
who has lost everything

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on her money, his wife, his
children, his mind even.

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In some deep wood
where only those

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with the eyes of snakes
who hold the broken wind

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in their pockets can survive.

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This owl with his
cloak resembling

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leaves twigs, his beak and claws
read from the meek animals it

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needs to live on,
and his amazing voice

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this owl pretends to speak
in the language of men,

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asking profound questions who?

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But he is the bird of deception,
the bird of that saddest

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of all creations, the
intelligent machine

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so perfectly made he can
long for only one thing--

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imperfection.

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The cliche of science
fiction and modern life.

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He was programmed to do
everything but make mistakes,

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and thus by definition he is
no man, no poet, no sufferer

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in this common rapacious world.

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Whatever he is, is
different apart beautiful,

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perhaps in its very
inhumanity metaphors

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I kiss you goodbye
for a while and we'll

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talk about my own
perceptions angers.

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And even the admiration I feel
for these beautiful scoundrels.

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There's a waitress at the
coffee shop of the Holiday

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Inn in Corpus Christi,
Texas who if she had not

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been born Mexican in a
southern near the border town

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poor and without ambition would
have quite a different life.

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Her hands are valentines
serving my coffee,

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and her face resides the
petals of oleander and azalea.

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She walks like the
wind in palm trees

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or a beautiful woman's hair.

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But she will always serve coffee
to fat salesmen and dentists.

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And when she is finished talk
to the short, heavy Mexican

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bellhop.

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I ask myself often about
that Christian proposition

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to those who have much
more shall be given.

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And to those who have nothing
even that shall be taken away.

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I would like to marry my
body of Christ waitress

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to a singer of
that dark sad music

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who uses the owl to
represent himself

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and who has always
walked to the world

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whistling a golden Piccolo
that disarms his listeners.

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I would like to give her some
of his luck and even things

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out because I am always
greedy to play God,

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but that is not
what life is about.

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The poetry robot.

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He says everything beautifully,
he says and will sue me

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for quoting, but they are
such beautiful words I cannot

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resist.

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I give up my heart,
which is a burning apple.

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I give up my arms, which have
wanted to leave me anyway

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and speaks of the greenfield
where cows burn like newsprint.

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And the glass cloud in
the shape of a heart

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the owl arranging all of the
night, the sleep of dresses

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on the warm bodies of women.

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The applauding wind.

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His words have
always been polished,

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as if he pulled emeralds out
of the mountains already cut

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and in Tiffany settings.

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The natural jewel, the naturally
beautiful and perfect jewel

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maker, how we all
admire his glitter?

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And if we are wise,
we will admire

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the perfectly made products
of fine and sophisticated

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machines.

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But pick and choose
robot or man?

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Machine or handmade.

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You cannot have both.

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Greed I keep reminding
you is the failure

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to choose the unwillingness to
pick one thing over another,

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wealth or simplicity.

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You cannot have both.

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A core disagreement
harmonious relations

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with others or your honesty.

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You cannot have both.

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The telling of the truth
is not beautiful, does not

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make people feel good.

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I do not think any alternative
is absolutely right or wrong.

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I do know that it is absolutely
wrong, not to commit yourself

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to one alternative or the other.

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And today, I speak of this dark
and handsome bird, the singer

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of sad songs, the poetry
robot, the mechanical golden

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nightingale but he comes in many
other disguises, my friends.

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Because he is singing
a new song this year.

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Stolen from another bird.

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The song of his frailty
and his humanity.

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He sings the song of a
man bereft of fortune.

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I know singers with one
eye men with no livers

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left in their bodies.

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Men who will never have
women in their lives.

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Women whose children were
given away to strangers.

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Black men who will not
ever know the dignity

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of being taken for
granted, and those

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whose lives are spent in jail.

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They are singers of sad,
desperate, and beautiful songs,

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not so perfectly made, but
poignant in their human

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sacrifice and misery.

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Deep in their knowledge of life.

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Their suffering sometimes
carves out magnificent language,

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but it is never the simple
beautiful artful language

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of the poetry robot.

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The man who cannot speak
and ungraceful line,

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but he has cheated us,
and so I am complaining.

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Surely art can be made
from all forms of humanity,

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surely the golden song
of the perfect man

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is no less sweet than the
sad human voice of suffering.

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How can you not
know that, you robot

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programmed to know everything.

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You fried, you golden boy who
is good at everything, who's

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handsome face has appeared in
fashion ads, whose wife has

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a sweet noble
intelligent loving,

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is a sweet noble intelligent
loving lover and friend.

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Whose children are gifted,
whose ability to make money

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will never be questioned,
who's speaking

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wins you friends in
every place, whose

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books will always be published.

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Who can do what you decide to
do at any given time, you fraud.

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Singing now of having
nothing of giving all away

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and saying your
world is nothing.

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If your world is nothing
man and there is no world

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that is anything.

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Be honest.

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Don't tell us that life is sad,
even for those who do not feel.

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That's only talking.

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And talk should not
be cheap for the poet.

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Talk to us of the owl who asks
you questions in the night.

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And tell us of the long perfect
nights when there is no fear

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or hurt to invade them.

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Do not apologize for your
perfection or lie about them.

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They fade as you do.

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Say you're sorry for
what you do not possess.

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A sense of your own good
fortune and the willingness

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to rejoice it, and understanding
that if you sense misery

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in the world that others
must be dying of it.

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Your unwillingness to
use that beautiful music

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to soothe the sick
and the dying.

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I met a woman this week who made
me praise my own normalcies.

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For her speaking was like
running through the blades

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of a windmill.

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Her voice was like dragging a
piece of metal under your car.

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Her face contorted
when she spoke

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as if someone were electrocuting
her for each syllable.

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And when she ate
the food hung out

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over her mouth moving
like garbage in a river.

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She walked as a bird would
try to fly with a broken wing,

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yet she insisted on
leading a real life,

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going places talking to
people, writing poetry, longing

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for the language that
falls cleanly out of view

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like ripe plums off a tree.

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Oh, you hypocrite,
don't you see that there

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is nothing noble in suffering?

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That some suffering is
every man's measure,

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and his only nobility comes from
seeing it through, living it

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out and transcending
it, coming above it.

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Do you think a man is
noble for being beaten,

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for starving, for being
unjustly persecuted,

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for being physically tortured
or losing everything he loves.

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You who have never suffered
any of these things,

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surely you cannot be so
foolish as to wish to.

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But the humanity of
knowing the struggle,

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and any nobility that
comes from surviving it,

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that is what a mechanical
bird cannot know.

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My God, man, you are
privileged and above us.

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We work for what you
have been born with.

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There may be a time when
the world strikes you down

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too and delivers no mercy,
do not cultivate that time

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or long for it.

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To do so is the opposite of
what all life and religion, what

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philosophy and art are about.

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Sing, sing, sing your
perfect and harmonious songs.

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Once you're honest about
it even I with my torn,

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torn body and painful
memories will listen.

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It is the songs that we
want to hear after all.

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And beauty is different
as each man finds it.

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Give us your own tall
handsome American and chrome.

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Don't fall down or will
kick you where you lie.

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Remember the fate of
machines when they break down

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and we are always
looking for new models.

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Be yourself number 124966, and
we will always preserve you

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for your integrity.

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What is a philosopher?

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He is a man who gives no one
the benefit of the doubt.

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What is the artist?

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He gives us something
beautiful from the darkness.

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What is the failure?

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The man who cannot live
with his own destiny.

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These are the concerns
of us all as we

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struggle with our own
failures and deceits.

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[APPLAUSE]

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