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Does anybody know
what time it is?

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How long have I been reading?

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[INAUDIBLE VOICE FROM AUDIENCE]

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Oh, I wonder-- I'm sorry.

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I'm keeping you a little longer.

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There's only two more poems.

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Oh, no, I'm not.

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I keep thinking the
reading started at 8:00.

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It started-- I told all
these people 8 o'clock.

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And it's 8:30, isn't it?

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So I don't have--

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I have 15 minutes to go down.

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Well, that's good.

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This is called "New
Crops for a Free Man."

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And I really like it
and I keep reading it,

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but I suddenly
realized yesterday

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that I'm tired of
reading it now.

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"New Crops for a Free Man."

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"I drop the torch of
rags in a bucket of water

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and watched the field burn.

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Behind me, another
fire, my woman.

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And the sheets wrinkled and
stiff from heat and sweat,

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throws them back and rises.

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She cracks her knuckles, leans
from the window and yells,

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but I keep my head turned
toward the thing I understand.

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She's hot from a match
I never lit, and strokes

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her breasts whose wicks,
her nipples of flame,

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burn holes in her hands and me.

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Go back to sleep.

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I don't need you now.

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I just want the dirt
under my fingernails

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to become mountains,
to listen to my heart

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beat inside the rocks, and
scream as my own death slides

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into bed with her ass bloody
and sweet when I lick it,

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one stalk of wheat no man
can pull from the ground

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and live to eat."

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