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It's the love starting to
get of gory, so I better--

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well I might as well go ahead
and finish something here.

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Let me read you a poem called
two voices from Hester Street,

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which is Hester Street as
a street in Notting Hill

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lounge in Manhattan downtown.

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Manhattan.

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And I was looking
at some photographs

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of Hester Street The look--

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Hester Street-- the
photographs of Hester street

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that I was looking at, look
like the scenes in the movie

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'Godfather II' with
the shop of the carts

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and the stands in the street.

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The only thing Hester street was
primarily a Jewish neighborhood

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for more generally southern
southeastern European

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neighborhood.

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Two voices from
Hester Street, a woman

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will speak first and then a man.

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As my wife points out speaks
and he says more than the woman.

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All right i see she right here.

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This morning in the warm
air I paint the sheets

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out my window that
beat my life until I

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am mad in the dry
hand of clothespin.

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I am a Psalm in this new land,
like a barn filled with wheat

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and flies.

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My white skin music
grins lost in the air.

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I see her here, I
see her here singing.

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The black birds a while they
declare the common things.

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The famine in the
green in the eyes

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of the poor, their
wings are unreasonable

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strands, unreachable strands
they tear my life raw wife

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this morning controlled
like the vegetables

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downstairs down in
the bin speechless

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and religious with the
crowds as my love for her.

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If I could take the crows of a
hair with me down the stairway,

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and hang them in front of me for
the darkness something we have

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suspected would rise
up in our hands,

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would say Abraham Abraham.

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