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I think the Indians have
gotten to me in some ways.

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One of the first things that
changed because of being, I've

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been in other schools besides
but I keep emphasizing them

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but that's not fair at all.

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Cause when a poet walks into
a high school you realize,

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and especially to high schools
where poetry hasn't been taught

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for a long time and
kids aren't really

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up on the latest movements.

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The truth of poetry has nothing
to do with the subtleties

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but with the how much of life
you get into the poem I guess.

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Just how real they sound
to them and how honest

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they sound to them.

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So I think every poet who
has been on the program

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and that's about 20
people now has felt this,

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and this sort of felt
a desire to switch away

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from intellectual angles in
the poems towards something

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that's readily available.

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And if they want to still be
intellectual enough themes

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and stuff like poetry
just as naturally made up

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of those things, it has to
be underneath in some way.

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That's one dated 7/2/70
called "Fertility."

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The edge is sharp
with pebbles for sand

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but we are young
careless of those

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perhaps in the
mountains looking down.

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I know the water, the undertow,
quicksand, the water under me,

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getting in too far to get out.

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Each of us has seen his
own death in a dream

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and been wakened
feeling the sinking

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in the pit of the stomach.

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You ask what is behind the sun?

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Our alter selves I say,
with their children.

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I tell you, they
are waiting for us.

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We don't want to
swim alone and naked,

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we want the warmth
for something else.