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This next poem is
called "The Carpenter."

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And I guess the only thing
you should know about the poem

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is that my wife kind
of follows my writing,

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and she can look
in the workbooks

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and on the worksheets.

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And one day, it
suddenly occurred to me

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that I hadn't written a
love poem to her in a while.

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And so I decided to set up--

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create a setup, and I was
going to start writing the poem

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very slowly that
she could look at.

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But she wouldn't be able
to tell it's for her,

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and it's a love poem.

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So with that, that's
essentially all

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I'm going to tell
you-- that the poem is

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going to be a love poem.

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It is a love poem.

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It's just in a lot of parts.

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"One, I look at my
hands in a dark hour.

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They are my wife, another
life, fawnal, explicitly made.

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I compare responsibility
to journey.

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They are pitch black, whirling
in the outside world, left

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behind like a native possessed.

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Two, we are older.

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Toil is our long way back home.

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It works, causes the space
to beat like a heart.

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It's a part of the
poem that appears,

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and appears on its own.

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It goes on on its
own, mystical as evil,

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but it is called freedom.

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Three, I'm sorry.

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I was telling you about my
hands, how well we are married.

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It follows, I recognize all
truth as some part of 10.

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Spirit is my thumb passionately.

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Without thumb, I
would be nothing.

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I have met some who
believe in reason.

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They have had too much wine,
confess cause and effect.

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It has been painful.

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Four, I told you,
it is unreasonable.

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I guess I should say
here, I am your carpenter.

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Ethically, dark wood is my life.

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I could show you my
story better sanding.

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Then when I speak, you
would hear, Africa, Africa.

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One more thing, my
love, I have discovered

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in this dark wood a skill you
have called our loneliness.

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I sand it down for you
until our bodies fall off."

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