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This is another poem about
him, but this is one--

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I used to have to
go look for him.

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That was my job because I
was the oldest of the five

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children.

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So I have to go to the tavern,
and you weren't allowed in,

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of course, so you had to
peer through into that dark

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and see if you could
see him along the bar.

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So going home, this
time was the first time

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I really had been in
these hometown bars.

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So I went into the
Shenook Tavern,

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and this is what happened.

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It's called "At the
Shenook Tavern."

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"There's a nose mark on the
glass, under the gilt-edged "No

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Minors."

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Today, we walked
in here for a beer.

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The "no" was scratched
off, then penciled back.

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Someone knew we'd all get
old enough to be here.

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My father stands at
the end of the bar

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drinking his beer
from the bottle,

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so cold when he sets it down.

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The fingermarks run together.

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This is my daughter,
he tells the Swede.

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I should know you, says Swede.

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You're as pretty as my daughter.

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I hope your daughter
is pretty, I said.

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Hello,

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[LAUGHTER]

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He can't shake with that arm.

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A lady ran into me
and didn't know it.

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I'm a strong old son of a gun.

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I held on to her
bumper for 30 yards.

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They

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[LAUGHTER]

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They had to take the
top out of my shoulder.

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This is my daughter, my
father says to the barman.

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Warren, he said.

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His wife shakes with me, too.

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Well damn!

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I should know you,
my father says

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to someone's face walking up.

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When I turn over in
my sleep, it pops out.

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Let's go.

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The pool table cemetery green,
under the high white tubes

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of light, suddenly on the
street, it's daylight,

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and us parked somewhere
we can't remember."

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