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I'm going to finish the
reading part with a poem,

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and then I'm going to talk
a little bit about what

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I want to do as poet laureate.

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I'm going to finish with
a dessert poem for fun.

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Thanksgiving is around--
it might as well be here.

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Halloween is gone,
forget about it.

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This is in time
for Thanksgiving.

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This poem is in two parts.

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This is a poem about pie.

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Man, you can't lose.

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Can't lose.

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Write a poem about pie, you're
going to be-- you'll be good.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is called "Perfect
For Any occasion"

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"One.

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Pies have a reputation,
and it's immediate.

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No talk of potential
regarding a pie.

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It's good, or it isn't.

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But mostly it is.

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Sweet, very sweet, right then,
right there, blue and red.

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It can't go to junior college,
work hard for the grades,

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work two jobs on the side.

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It can't slowly build a
reputation and a growing client

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base.

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A pie gets one
chance, and knows it.

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Wearing as makeup those
sparkling granules of sugar,

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as a collar, those diamond
cutouts, bespeaking Fair Day,

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felicity, contentment.

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I tell you everything
is great, says a pie.

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Great, and fun, and fine.

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And you smell nice,
too, someone says.

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A full pound of round
sound, all ah, all good.

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Pies live a life of applause.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Two.

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But then there are
the other pies.

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[LAUGHTER]

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The leftover pies.

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The one nobody chooses
at Thanksgiving.

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Mincemeat?

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What the hell is
that, people ask.

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Pointing instead at a
double helping of Mr.

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I Can Do No Wrong pecan pie.

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But the unchosen pies
have a long history, too.

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They have plenty of good
stories, places they've been.

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They were once fun, too.

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But nobody wants to
listen to them anymore.

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Oh sure, everybody
used to love lard.

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But things have
changed, brother.

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Things have changed.

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That's never the end of
the story, of course.

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Some pies make a break for it.

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Live underground, for a
while, doing what they can--

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talking fast trying to be
sweet pizzas, if they're lucky.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But no good comes of it.

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Nobody is fooled.

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A pie is a pie,
for one great day.

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Last week, it was Jell-O.
Tomorrow, it'll be cake."

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[APPLAUSE]