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I was on the KWFM last night,
and I had a very good time.

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I like the idea of having poems
and records going together.

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And what I was talking
about last night

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was, again, something
on this traveling theme.

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When I first--

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I was a student out
here for three years.

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And my last
semester, I was a TA,

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and I used to come to
school on a motorcycle.

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Did a lot of motorcycling.

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This is a sort of a
motorcycle breakdown poem.

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It's called "Time to Kill,"
and it's an obvious pun.

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It's written in
five [? things ?],,

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but I like to dispense
with the numbers.

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"Looking for someone
to take me on,

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I walk slow as the growing
agave, the Yucca blades,

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and morning shadows,
cutting the highway that

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runs through a swelter of sand.

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At midday near the
border, Nogales whores

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turn up a dirt road,
hugged by two-storied bars,

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wearing trinkets of
their conquistadors.

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By the San Javier mission,
vesper bells call the Papagos

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from the charity gardens.

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Hired hands and ignorance,
they camouflage missile sites

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for sack.

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Unmuted tires, the cars
curve drunkenly down the road

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while pastels of sunset carouse.

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At home, a Sabbath
candle is burning."

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