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There are three poems
in the book illustrated.

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And Dave Curry, who
published the book,

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asked me to do
the illustrations.

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And I told him
that if I do them,

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they'll look like
a loony did them.

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Of course, he said that's
what he wanted, so I did them.

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And you can't see them-- this
first one from there, probably.

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He's standing out in
the rain with water

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dripping off his hat.

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I think the younger
Hogan liked this poem.

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There's also a space down
here that you probably

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can't see from the back row.

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Maybe you can hear
it as I read it.

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This is Ludi's attempt
to define grace.

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"Sometimes, the rain
swoops in like this.

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Raging rivers, down
from loony's hat brim.

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And that's how much sense the
simple tadpole has, they say.

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But loony only grins, for he
is fresh and cool and clean,

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knowing for maybe a minute
or two, what grace is.

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Listen, grace is what the
preacher bends himself to say,

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and grace is good.

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Help us, oh Jesus,
not to judge until we

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have stood at least a
day in the other's shoes.

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And the rain that
sweeps the street

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and makes an echo on the
platform at the depot

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smells like grace to me.

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And listen, grace is where
we are and what we stand in.

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This water at the face
and neck and hands,

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a sample space like
this between the freight

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train and its victim."

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[APPLAUSE]

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