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I seem to have gone on
for a rather long time.

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So I'm just going to read one
more poem, quite a short one,

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which is the title poem
of a book I came out

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with about 10 years ago.

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It's called "My Sad Captains."

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"One by one, they appear in
the darkness, a few friends

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and a few with historical names.

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How late they start to shine.

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But before they fade, they
stand perfectly embodied,

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all the past lapping them
like a cloak of chaos.

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They were men who, I
thought, lived only

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to renew the wasteful force they
spent with each hot convulsion.

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They remind me distant now.

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True, they're not at rest yet.

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But now that they are indeed
apart, winnowed from failures,

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they withdraw to
an orbit and turn

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with disinterested, hard
energy, like the stars."

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Well, that's it.

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[APPLAUSE]

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