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I'll start by reading a
little bit from my poetry.

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But I actually
thought, maybe, I would

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begin just by reading the
poem that Tyler mentioned,

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which is called
"Summer Poem #3."

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"Summer Poem #3."

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"In the middle of my life, I
had the most marvelous piece

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of luck.

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I entered a hotel,
and among golfers--

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pregnant with beautiful
minor worries--

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watched the cheerleaders gallop,
as James Wright said, terribly

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against each other's bodies.

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But, really, it was not, except
for their cries of happiness,

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bouncing off the
mountains, surrounding us

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in the middle of my life.

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In the middle of my life,
I felt lost and awake.

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A patient who has just been
told he has 50 years to live.

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[LAUGHTER]

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His body, a responsibility,
now a machine that

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must-- like an animal for
some inexplicable reason--

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be cared for.

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Goodbye lassitude
of adult childhood.

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On the ocean, immense,
aggregated plastic floats

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towards us, and our most
brilliant scientists

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can only just watch it.

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'Because' is such
an interesting word.

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We must somehow figure out
how to put people in it."

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