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And I'm going to end
with this city poem

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because it's right
in my neighborhood.

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I had a friend whose wife
died of breast cancer

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a couple of years ago.

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And one of the treatments
that she sought

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was at UCSF Medical
Center, which

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is right in my neighborhood.

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And I spent a fair
amount of time

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with this fellow when
all this was happening.

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Our language is such
that the phrase hotspots

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can refer to everything from
cancer spots, emergencies

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of cancer, to air loss.

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The title of this
poem is "Police."

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"How oddly quiet the squad
car's light rack, flashing

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late tonight,
double-parked on my street.

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The sea-chilled dark
tweaked by blues and reds.

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The old sleepy houses--

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gap-toothed and aroused
like jack-o'-lanterns.

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Moments before you
phoned to say the doctors

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found sooner-than-expected
new hotspots

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metastasized in her femur,
vertebrae, lung, and brain

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making, of course, no noise.

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Your voice, how calmly
familiar with whatever

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is worse and
imaginable, repeating

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what you said just weeks ago
about the geometrical rigor

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of retributive forces
in the universe

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while the car throws
its important lights

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against the uneventful night."

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OK, that's it.

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Thank you.

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