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OK, let's see.

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Two more poems.

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Now, do the trick.

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This one's called
Grandma's man and it

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was based on one
of my grandfathers

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who was what they used to call
a fool back in the old days.

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Everything he touched
seemed to turn out wrong.

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And as I mentioned
in the poem, he never

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ever got things quite right.

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He had a good
spirit and it seemed

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like if he could have just
turned completely around

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he would have been
a great success.

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But as it was he
was a great failure.

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That day she threw the goose
over the roof of the cow

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shed, put her hand to her
lips and sucked cursing.

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The world ended.

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In blood her world ended.

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Though these past
20 years have healed

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the bite and that
silly goose is preening

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in her favorite pillow.

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Her husband was a fool.

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He laughed too long at lies
told by girls whose easy

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virtue disappeared
when he passed stumble

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bum down the Sunday street.

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Baled hay in his every 40,
cows on his allotted range.

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His quick sorrel quarter
horse all neglected

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for the palms of friends.

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Then he began to paint life.

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His first attempt was all
about a goose that bit

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the hand that fed it.

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The obstacles were
great, insurmountable.

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His fingers were too thick
to grip the brush right.

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The sky was always green and
hay spoiled in the fields.

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In wind, the rain,
the superlative night,

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images came, geese
skimming to the reservoir.

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This old man listened.

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He got a bigger brush and once
painted the cry of a goose

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so long, it floated off
the canvas into thin air.

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Things got better.

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Sky turned white.

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Winter came and he became
quite expert at snowflakes.

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But he was growing wise lard.

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His hair white as snow.

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Funny he used to say how
mountains are blue in winter

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and grain and spring.

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He never ever got
things quite right.

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He thought a lot about the day
the goose bit grandma's hand.

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Life seldom came
the shade he wanted.

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Well, and yes, he
died well, but you

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should have seen how
well his friends took it.

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