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I want to end by reading a few
recent pieces, some of them

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poems and some of
them prose poems.

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The first one is a poem
called "Goodbye Again."

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The title's almost
a kind of joke.

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I see-- I find myself
writing lots of poems

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about taking off, leaving,
dropping things off.

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It's almost like the reverse
of that old Doris Day and Rock

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Hudson movie joke,
where, finally,

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at the end of the movie, there's
been all this hanky-panky

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going on.

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And then you see the camera pans
this little trail of discarded

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underwear.

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And it leads up to the bedroom.

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And you finally know that
something awful is happening.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But in this poem, in
these poems of mine,

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the person is going out
into the woods or something.

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And the things he's dropping
off aren't really close.

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They're-- they're
other parts of a life.

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So this one is called
"Goodbye Again."

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"I fill one pocket with bats,
because a pocket is dark.

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I fill the other with stones,
because they make devoted pets.

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I'm leaving this place.

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All my words run downhill,
and I follow them at first,

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because it is easy.

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Let the wind go
through their holes.

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It is the holes I love in them.

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Beside the river, I leave
my sleep, like a pod.

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I'm leaving my dog,
Charm, and my last bottle

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of Chateau Petrus in 1959,
because my pockets are full.

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I'm leaving my bed,
because she is not there.

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I'm sick of this place.

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I'm leaving my
shadow to its mother,

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the dark side of the moon.

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I'm leaving my silence
to its father, speech.

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In one pocket, the stones
are laying their eggs.

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I'm leaving the women,
because I need only one.

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I throw my breath
over my shoulder.

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In the other pocket, the bats
have lowered the dark sails

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of their wings, because it's
always night in my pocket,

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and you have to sleep some time.

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Everything goes from itself,
a dandruff of seeds."

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