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I'd like to read another
poem about fishing too.

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This is an irreverent poem but
I can never resist reading it.

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Two friends of mine and I
used to go fishing in Canada.

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And this one particular
time we were out

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and we had left our life
preservers on the shore.

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None of us could swim and
this terrible storm came up.

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And we were caught out
in the middle of the lake

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and trying to get back and we
were in really great peril.

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And one of us began laughing,
I can't remember which one.

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And it became very infectious
and we were just all

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breaking up laughing
while we were

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in this great, great danger.

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One of these wild times.

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And this is not exactly a poem
about that particular instance

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a meditation on that business.

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It's called "Entering the
Storm, Unable to Swim,

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Zimmer, Rollo, and
Cecil Are Saved."

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"The storm mixed and fell
upon the lake and chins first

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we rammed its wall.

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While one man bailed out
the water and another work

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the motor, I held the
lantern high and howled

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at the pinewood shore.

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Only the fish we had
caught could swim

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and they revived in
the slosh of our hull.

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The storm hooked my cheeks
and beat my voice back.

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It swallowed up my light.

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It rose faster than our buckets
and washed our motor out.

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Our fish began to swim
and we began to sink.

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We despaired.

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We cursed fish, water,
storm, and world.

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We defied nine
planets in the cosmos.

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Then a great voice
said, rub a dub, dub.

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Behold our boat rose, our water
drained in the storm uncapped

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and split above our heads.

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Our fish suffered
in the hull again

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and we sailed off
believing, believing."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Thank you.

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