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I'm going to read
you a poem that I

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like a great deal that you
may have heard recently.

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I understand James
Wright was here.

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And I liked it so much that I
wrote a poem in tribute of it,

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to it.

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So let me read his
very quickly first,

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and then I'll read
you a tribute to it.

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It's called "Lying in a Hammock
at William Duffy's Farm in Pine

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Island, Minnesota."

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"Over my head I see
the bronze butterfly

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asleep on the
black trunk blowing

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like a leaf in
green shadow, down

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the ravine behind
the empty house,

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the cowbells follow one
another into the distances

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of the afternoon.

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To my right, and a field of
sunlight between two pines,

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the droppings of
last year's horses

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blaze up into golden stones.

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I lean back as the evening
darkens and comes on.

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A chicken hawk floats
over, heading for home.

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I have wasted my life."

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