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And the last one is called
"Wish You Were Here."

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Someone asked me before if
this poem is specifically

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about drugs.

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No, but it's
generally about them.

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"Tripping is like
getting a postcard

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from another country
with postage due

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and the entire journey ahead."

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Someone asked Alan Watts
once if he dropped acid--

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this was during the time
of all the questions

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about chromosomal
damage and so on.

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And he said, yes.

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And this person said,
kind of hopelessly,

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and do you still take acid?

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You can just see the questions
in the interviewer's mind

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if you say yes, you've had it.

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Here you are on
public TV and stuff.

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And he said, nope.

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And then the interviewer
seemed to respond by saying,

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got you now.

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You'll have to fess up to why.

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So he says, well, why aren't
you taking it anymore?

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And Alan Watts clearly
had been waiting for this,

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I guess, all evening had
absolutely beautiful return,

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to him, which was, once
you get the message,

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you hang up the phone.

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