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First I'll read a little
one from my last book,

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because everybody
has played baseball

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and maybe you'd like this
interpretation of a ballgame.

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I got the wrong number
written down here,

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so I'll give you a pause
for psychic identification

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while I find it.

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Where's this thing?

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"Ballgame," here it is, 55.

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OK, this is sort of one
version of playing ball.

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Remember your
youthful ball games?

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"Caught off first, he
leaped to run to second,

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but then struggled
back to first.

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He left first because of
a natural desire to leap,

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to get on with the game.

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When you jerk to run to
second, you do not necessarily

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think of a home run.

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You want to go on.

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You want to get
to the next stage.

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The entire soul is
bent on second base.

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The fact is that the mind
flashes faster in action,

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than the muscles can move.

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Dramatic, off first
taut, heading for second.

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In a split second, total
realization, heading for first.

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Head first, legs follow fast.

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You struggle back to
first with victor effort.

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As even after a life
of effort and chill,

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one flashes back to the
safety of childhood,

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to that strange place
where one had first begun."