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April is a-- well, it's
according to the Academy

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it's National Poetry Month,
but I noticed on the Poetry--

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on the Poetry
Center it just says

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April is Poetry Month, which is
the right idea because National

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Poetry Month is [INAUDIBLE].

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[LAUGHTER]

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But actually, it turns out April
comes up in a lot of my poems,

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so I thought I better whip
out a couple of today.

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This is called "Jack's boat".

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It goes forward
and it goes back.

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"April is the
seduction of the world,

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and yet language
is the whirlpool.

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Which tears up the tree
and throws it aside?

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The king's daughter now
plays, but seriousness...

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In the occupation
of the imagination,

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the lachrymose sky gushed
indirectly no more:

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The Thief of Sighs
had been there!

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The tree consumes the same
place as the imagination

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but is not, burning in
itself and green, that thing.

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But is not, burning
in itself in green,

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that thing the tree consumes the
same place as the imagination

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of equal size had been.

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There the lachrymose
sky gushed indirectly.

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'No more play but
seriousness in the occupation

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of the imagination' sighed
the king's daughter.

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Now languisher, the whirlpool,
which tears up the tree

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and throws it.

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April is the seduction
of the world.

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And yet."

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