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And I'm going to
read one last poem,

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and it's a very short poem.

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And I really thank you for
your attention tonight.

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You're a lovely audience,
and it's great to be here.

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This is just a very--

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I write long poems,
as you can tell.

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I know that someone
once said that brevity

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is the soul of wit,
but I don't believe it.

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But I'm going to read
you this very brief poem.

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And it is called,
very simply, "Prayer."

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"The sky is clear as a jinn.

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I could lay my body
down, sleep in the calm

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nights, the peace
of the winter wind.

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And the deep, black sky that
makes me forget the morning

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light makes me remember.

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Now I see the stars, a
million tongues of fire.

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I am so small.

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The Earth beneath my feet is
giving, strong, but slowly,

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slowly dying.

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Tonight, I want.

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There has to be a God."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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