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Here's a poem called "Going
to Remake this World."

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It's a poem about before
my wife and I got married.

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We went together for
a couple of years.

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One time, I was going to school
at the University of Montana

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at that time.

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And I used to hate Christmas
vacations because I

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used to have to go home then.

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And where I lived was
the Fort Belknap Agency.

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And I would go home and
there was nothing to do.

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All of my friends had gone.

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So, I would sit there
and look out the window.

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My parents lived in a trailer.

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And so I'd sit there and
look out this trailer window

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all the time.

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And this poem is sort of about
missing my girlfriend, who

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has since become my wife
and looking out the window

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and seeing the people
who would walk by.

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It's called "Going to
Remake this World."

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Morning and the snow
might fall forever.

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I keep busy, I watch
the yellow jump

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dogs, chase creeping cars
filled with Indians on their way

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to the tribal office.

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Grateful trees tickle the busy
underside of our snow fat sky.

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My mind is right, I think and
you will come today for sure.

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This day when the snow falls.

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From my window, I see
bundled Doris Horsemn.

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Black in the blowing snow.

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Her raving son Horace,
too busy counting

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flakes to hide his face.

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He doesn't know.

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He kicks my dog
and glares at me.

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Too dumb to thank the men
who keep him on relief

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and his mama drunk.

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My radio reminds me that Hawaii
calls every afternoon at 2.

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Moose Jaw is overcast,
12 below and blowing.

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Some people.

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Listen, if you do not come
this day today of all days,

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there is another time.

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When breeze is tropic
and riffs the green

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sap forever up these
crooked cottonwoods.

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Sometimes, you know, the
snow never falls forever.

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