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Here's a poem called "Day
After Chasing Porcupines."

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Which one member of the
audience has experienced.

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When you're a kid you
go after porcupines

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and you shoot them
and you kill them

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and you do all
this kind of stuff.

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But you've always
got a dog with you.

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And a dog always manages to
get some quills in his nose.

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I didn't learn
until several years

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later, that you're supposed to
clip the quills before you pull

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them out of the dog's nose.

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Because the quills are
full of air and they're

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very solid in the dog's nose.

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But if you clip them,
they deflate and then

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they're fairly easy to pull out.

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Which doesn't have anything
to do with this but--

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's sort of about a dog
laying around the yard.

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With his quill-- his nose
still full of quills.

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Rain came fog out of the slough
and horses asleep in the barn.

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In the fields, sparrow
hawks glittered

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through the morning clouds.

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No dreamers knew the rain.

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Wind ruffled quills
in the mongrel's nose.

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He sighed cautiously.

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Kicked further beneath the
weathered shed and slept.

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Timid chickens watched
chickens in the puddles.

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Watching the
chickens, yellow eyes

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harsh below the wind drifting
clouds, sparrow hawks.

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Horses stamped in the barn.

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The mongrel whimpered
in his dream,

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wind ruffled his mongrel tail.

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The lazy cattails and the rain.

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