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This is a very
sophisticated audience.

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So I'm not going to
worry about this.

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I like this poem
because I think it

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has one of the most beautiful
titles in the English language

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and I'm very fond of it.

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I mean it's right
up there with praise

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be Diana's fair
and harmless light

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and meet me in the green
garden and home thoughts

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from the sea and light
shines out of darkness

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and things like that.

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It's called "The
Screaming Shits".

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[LAUGHTER]

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"I am inside out and
turning back again.

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My anus is a bullet hole.

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My intestines murmur,
Zimmer, Zimmer, Zimmer.

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Again, the pain rises and
plummets like Angel Falls.

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What have I done to
make my organs dissolve?

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I examined my conscience.

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I am careful about food.

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Eating mostly bland, some
little sweet, some sour.

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I chew good roughage.

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What have I taken in
that I must blow out?

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Zimmer, Zimmer, Zimmer."

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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I read that poem at
the University of Iowa.

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And a fellow came
up to me afterwards.

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And he said, you know,
it's really true.

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He said, when you have
diarrhea, your stomach does say.

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It says, Zimmer, Zimmer, Zimmer.

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He said, my name is
Hopkins and it doesn't

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go, Hopkins, Hopkins, Hopkins.

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[LAUGHTER]

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