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A voice like this
gives me a chance

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further to remove myself--

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or does anybody, anybody
who uses a voice like this.

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Because I can have the
loony paraphrase others,

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even though he doesn't
understand what they're saying,

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and I hope that the reader does.

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In this poem he's sitting
in the barber shop listening

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to Yuri defend Pete Reiser,
who played center field

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for the Brooklyn Dodgers--

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as you all know--

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and refused to
acknowledge home runs.

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As a result, he ran into--

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well, numerous walls
and retired early.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I believe Reiser is still
coaching, though I'm not sure.

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I think he's still coaching.

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But for some reason-- and loony
can't put his finger on it--

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he likes Yuri's
defense of this man,

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because Reiser was
a kind of loony.

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"Yuri turns from the bunched
up pair of his customer

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to say how Pistol
Pete Reiser, center

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fielder for the old
Brooklyn Dodgers,

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used to bang his
body against wire,

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and wood, and concrete
walls, chasing fly balls.

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Yuri says that old Pete
broke his head at least

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a dozen times, one time so bad,
they had to hire a well digger

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to drain it.

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Yuri says that Pistol Pete was
one of the most dedicated men

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that ever filled a jockstrap.

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[LAUGHTER]

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'He no more nutty,' Yuri
says, 'than the rest of us.'

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Yuri, who drinks, says, 'Shit
fire, it takes all kinds.'

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Hell, there are a
lot of things we

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aren't supposed to understand.

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And how the good Lord,
after all is said and done,

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draws straight with
crooked lines."

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[APPLAUSE]

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