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And this is the last
in the sequence.

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It's called
"Thinking for Berky."

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In the late night,
listening from bed,

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I've joined the ambulance
or the patrol screaming

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towards some drama,
the kind of end

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that Berky must have
someday, if she isn't dead.

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The wildest of all, her
father and mother cruel,

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farming out there
beyond the old stone

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quarry, where high school lovers
parked their lurching cars.

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Berky learned to love
in that dark school.

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Early, her face was
turned away from home

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toward any hardworking place.

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But still, her soul, with
terrible things to do,

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was alive, looking out for
the rescue that surely someday

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would have to come.

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Windiest nights, Berky,
I thought for you.

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And no matter how lucky I've
been, I've touched wood.

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There are things not solved in
our town, though tomorrow came.

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There are things time passing
can never make come true.

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We live in an occupied
country, misunderstood.

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Justice will take us
millions of intricate moves.

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Sirens will hunt down Berky,
you survivors in your beds,

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while in the night you
lie so far and good.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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Thank you.

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I end that little interlude that
came about because the occasion

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of that class last night.

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