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I went through a great Bible
reading period this summer.

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What better time do you read
the Bible, Revelations, Ezekiel,

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and Daniel than the summer
in Tucson when it's very hot?

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Very depressed.

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And visions mean
a lot to you then.

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[LAUGHS] You half
sort of hallucinate.

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You think people are knocking on
your door at 4 AM and you say,

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yes.

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And you know that
nobody's there.

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And it's really strange.

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I also bought this album by some
Greeks from England called--

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they're called
Aphrodite's Child.

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And the album just has
three big sixes on it.

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That's the mark of the
beast from Revelations.

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And it's a whole Book of
Revelations set to music.

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And I just dance around
to-- it's really good music.

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And they're talking
about the horsemen.

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And you can rock
out to Saint John.

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Anything you want-- this is
the day and age of anything

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you want.

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It's really
disgusting sometimes.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is called
"Christ's Bracero."

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Dick, I hope I use the right
word because I'm not a farmer,

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but I write lots
of farming poems.

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And I have put the wrong
word in here for corn--

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what you do with corn.

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And I forgot [LAUGHS] I had
reap, but you don't reap corn.

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We'll see.

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"Christ's Bracero."

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"I hired you to pick corn,
but you can quit any time.

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Inside the green husk
are kernels of fire.

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I don't say they aren't good.

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I put sugar in my wine, but
it can't match the kernels

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crackling on your tongue.

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It's up to you.

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Just take my advice, stay
out of the field at twilight.

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You set to work.

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I slip down in my wicker
chair, counting six, six, six,

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then I doze.

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When I wake, smoke is
spurting from the tips

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of the unpicked corn.

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The sun, the moon, two
round teeth rock together

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and the light of one
chews up the other.

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I stand on shaking
legs and hold my breath

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until I see you limping forward.

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You stayed there too late.

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You bow your head.

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Yellow kernels fill your eyes
and slide down your cheeks.

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Your right foot
rests on the ground,

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while your left, a split
hoof, paws it gently.

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I feel the heat growing
in my armpits, my crotch.

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I lead you into the house
where we lie on the floor.

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I rub your hands over my body.

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Lucifer, the apocalypse is over.

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Clover sprouting from its grave.

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I am the first, the last,
and you are nothing.

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Hold me."

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