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might be my last poem.

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Yeah, yeah.

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It has a swim cap in it,
so I thought I'd read it.

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In the footnotes-- there
are some footnotes in here.

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And actually, is
there a swim cap?

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Yeah, yeah.

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I wish I could sing,
because a lot of these poems

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are meant to be sung.

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And I have a terrible voice.

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There's like a
karaoke scene in here.

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And I'm just awful at karaoke.

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I just cannot.

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I'm just utterly--

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I have a tin ear.

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So imagine me singing this.

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If anyone can sing and want to--

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it's sort of dance hall--

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you could read it.

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OK.

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[LAUGHING]

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So I'm just going to read it,
give my own poor rendition

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of it.

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But I'll read the
footnote first.

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"Note from the historian.

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Dance hall stalls are located
at the end of the bazaar.

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Stall after stall,
there is a different DJ,

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but with the same
soundtrack of the sea.

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Well, some, like the stall,
are humble tents with a sandy

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floor, two
turntables, and a mic,

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a few other stalls are
warehouse such as affairs with

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a 27,000-watt sound system and
official greeters who hand you

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swim caps as you
enter the front door,

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dance hall song for
when you're in the mood.

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She a swift fire cat
bristling she fie She

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a clean rifle in bombo red car.

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She give me agony,
'hind the meat shed.

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She nuzzle me pizz,
I nick her bat bact.

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She illy wacka, she
swipe a me cash.

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She kingpin, she sing
order of the keys.

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She a keen song
summer sound sea."

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