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"You wouldn't want too
reserved a speaker,

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that's a cold way to live.

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But where I come from,
withdrawal is easy to forgive.

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When mother was a girl,
trouble shattered that country,

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the barren lands.

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Mother ran to school
winter mornings,

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with hot potatoes in her hands.

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She was like this,
foreign, a stranger.

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She couldn't hear very
well, the world was all far.

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Were the others laughing?

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She never could tell.

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Later, though she
was frightened,

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she loved like everyone.

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A lean man, cruel, took her.

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I am his son.

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He was called Hawk
by the town people,

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but was an ordinary man.

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He lived by hunting
and trapping,

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wherever the old slough ran.

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Our house was always quiet.

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Summers, the windmill
creaked, or a board.

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I carried wood, never
touching anyone.

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Winters, the black stove roared.

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Forgive me these shadows
I cling to good people,

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trying to hold quiet
in my prologue.

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Hawks cling the barons
wherever I live.

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The world says, dog eat dog."

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What I'd like to do is to depend
on the poems that are already

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written.

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That's the reason I just
started in by reading one.

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And I realized when I
came to the end of this,

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that I wasn't going to be able
to say the last line right,

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because I've been
instructed by my children

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about pronunciation.

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And sometimes they say,
daddy, say geography.

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Or daddy, say dog
and then they laugh.

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