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When this topic
came up, that was

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what I thought of as something
with more life in it.

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So I guess I have to say it's
downhill from another poem.

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That's the one that
occurred to me.

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I had two or three
others that related.

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One is to this class.

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And I'm passing
through this phase.

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It's called A Sound
From The Earth.

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Somewhere, I think in Dakota.

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They found the leg bones.

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Just the big leg bones
of several Buffalo

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and a gravel pit.

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Near there, a hole in a
cliff has been hollowed,

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so that the prevailing
wind of autumn

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thrums a note so
low and persistent

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that bowls of water placed in
that cave will tremble to form.

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The grandfather of
Crazy Horse lived there.

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They say at the last.

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And his voice like the thrum
of the hills made winter

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come as he's saying boy, where
was your buffalo medicine?

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I say you were not
brave enough, boy.

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I say Crazy Horse
was too cautious.

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Then the sound he cried
out for his grandson

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made that thin agency soup that
they put before him tremble.

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The whole earthen
bowl turned into foam.

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Now, the occasion for this is
I thought of it at that class

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said a little bit of it.

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And it is something
that goes like this.

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I remember reading in
Scientific American

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that somewhere I
think in Dakota,

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they found the leg
bones, just the big leg

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bones of several buffalo
and a gravel pit.

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Documentary right out
of Scientific American

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stolen and smuggled into
the first stands of my poem.

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Now, from here on, though, and
I've been through this routine

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before and I know my way, and I
feel a little guilty about it,

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I hope it's all right for
a new student generation.

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From here on, it turns
into a documentary.

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Not of something
had happened, but as

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something that is
happening because I'm

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doing the documentary.

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I mean, the writing
is so immediate.

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It makes the thing
happen about there's

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a hole in this cliff
that thrums this note.

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Well, yeah, it happens
here while I'm writing it.

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And that grandfather of Crazy
Horse lived there the last.

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Yeah, it happened here.

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And above all that
anyone ever said

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Crazy Horse was too cautious.

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No, I don't think anyone
before me ever said that.

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So that's my original
documentation of something

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that occurred only
once in the world.

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And I would like to find
my way like that in writing

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or thinking, conceptualizing.

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Not be held to things
that had already happened.

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