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I'm going to read another
poem about being a little boy.

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I've been writing a
lot of poems of late

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that's why I'm having so
much trouble finding them.

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Where are you?

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[LAUGHS]

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Can't give the name of the guy.

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"Let Me Begin Again."

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All right.

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I remember the name,
that gives me hope.

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I was born on 1-10-28,
January 10th, 1928.

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That's mentioned in the poem.

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If I can find the goddamn poem.

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Ah, here.

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A Jeroboam by the
way, a Jeroboam

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is a great big bottle
in which I don't know,

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like two gallons, four gallons.

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You buy wine in it.

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They put wine in it.

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This one's called
"Let Me Begin Again."

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Let me begin again.

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As a speck of dust
caught in the night

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winds, sweeping out to sea.

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Let me begin this time knowing
the world is saltwater and dark

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clouds.

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The world is
grinding and sighing

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all night and dawn comes
slowly and changes nothing.

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Let me go back to land after
a lifetime of going nowhere.

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This time, lodged in the
feathers of some scavenging

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gull, white above the black
ship the ducks and broods

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upon the oily waters
of your harbor.

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This leaking
freighter has brought

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a whole full of hay forks
from Spain, great Jeroboams

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of dark Algerian wine and Quill
pens that can't write English.

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The sailors have stumbled
off toward the bars

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or the bright houses.

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The captain closes his
log and falls asleep.

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1-10-28, tonight, I
shall enter my life

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after being at sea for
ages, quietly in a hospital

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named for an automobile.

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The one child of millions of
children, who has flown alone

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by the stars above
the black wastes

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of meaningless waters
that stretched forever,

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who has turned golden in
the full sun of a new day.

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A tiny, wise child
who, this time,

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will love his life because
it is like no other.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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