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Here's another poem from
when I was back in New York,

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dated 8/20/70.

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It's called
"Purchase, New York",

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and it's a small suburb noted
mainly for its golf courses.

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At the waterhole, the
disturbance I hear is ducks.

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Mother of worries looks up
from her House & Gardens,

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she says they interfered
with the game.

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Were properly crated and
flown upstate, but immediately

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returned.

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Father of buildings, I became
a lawyer, a go-between.

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I think of golf balls, the
wild ducks on white eggs.

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Golfers keeping score
of their lost balls,

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but not for these foursomes.

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This case in mind, I
enter a brief laugh.

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Life's wryness.

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The thought broods
on the water, it

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enters the ear, past
the gray stages,

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to the bottom of comprehension.

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And comes again, no longer
mine, but in my voice.

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The rich laughter of the desert
canyons, of ancient rock,

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of twisted rivers,
and the liquid center.

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