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I can't resist-- this is
about the first time I came

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to Tucson after a cross-country
drive with my good friend,

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the poet Julie Fay, who is a
graduate of the MFA program

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here, and it's called
"Country & Western."

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"It looks like we are the last
unmarried women in Tucson.

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[LAUGHTER]

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We talk about food,
drinking, and mountains.

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They talk about babies.

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We're going to have to
go outside to smoke.

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Is there any more
bourbon in the car?

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It's too early to want to go to
bed in sleeping bags indoors.

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Fun in bed in Tucson happens
after you get married--

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why every teenager
has got a car.

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[LAUGHTER]

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As Carol peeled and chopped,
we talked about food

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we'd cooked at campsites--

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mole con charcoal smoke
for two nights running.

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She talked about
babies and I remembered

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talking about
babies incessantly,

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when I had one, in bed in
a basket under my desk.

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I'd smoke, swill
coffee, and discuss her.

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I stayed married for
nine months after that.

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We talk about food
in the morning,

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while you waltz the
car around the mall,

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for space next to a car bigger
enough to vouchsafe shade--

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a Baby's On Board,
decals announce.

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[LAUGHTER]

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We talk about food on down
the Giant's twelve aisles,

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each one a Bed of Procrustes.

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Do you want to get
married, and why?

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There's fire, but you've had all
that smoke in your eyes before.

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If I could smoke dope
without crashing, I'd say,

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let's take the car up
one of your mountains.

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Sunset married to sky,
we'd gaze, get high.

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If Carol's babysitter
showed up, Carol

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would come-- but her
bed-and-board mate would

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get home, and want his food."

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Oh even gorged with
cheap Mexican food,

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the counterculture,
rounding forty--

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smoke defiantly, hint an
unlicensed bed at two,

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have drinking buddies
now incarcerated,

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still had curfews--

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home to babies.

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A toast, first, to these
two, who just got married.

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The rest, like me, married
when they were babies.

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Before bedtime, we'll
toast your yellow car,

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smoke while we watch the
stars, and talk about food."

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[LAUGHTER]

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