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I know the title of this
poem is also a song.

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I said in the
class today, that's

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where I get a lot of my titles.

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"Anyone Who Had a Heart."

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OK I know that's a
song sung by Dionne

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Warwick among other people.

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But don't think of that.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Well, "Anyone Who Had a Heart."

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"I know a man who routinely
asks that I humiliate him.

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It's sex, and it
isn't, whatever.

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For him, it's a need,
the way brutality

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can seem for so long a likely
answer, that it becomes

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the answer, a kindness, even.

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And I have always been
kind, for which reason

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it goes against my nature
to do what he says,

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but there's little
in nature that won't,

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with enough training, change.

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After it's done, if
the weather's good,

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we tour his garden.

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Heliotrope, evening primrose.

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Proximity is one thing, he likes
to say, penetration another,

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and I have learned that's true.

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Though which is better depends.

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Whose life?

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What story?

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The relief of snowmelt, or
the flooded fields again?

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We go down to the stables
to visit the horses

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that, when they were nothing,
just shivering foals still,

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he once asked me
to give names to.

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How long we've traveled, he and
I, more like drifted, really,

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and how far.

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More black than all the sorrows
and joys put together that I

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can remember, when
I try remembering,

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which I mostly don't.

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Now the foals,
they're stallions.

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Call out Fanfare, Adoration.

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Like broken kings, they lower
their heads, then raise them."

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