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Let me break for a
second and read a poem

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by a friend of mine.

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It's by the poet Jon
Anderson, and it's a poem

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very much unlike
his other poems,

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except it has some humor
and some sympathy in it.

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And it's called
"Ye Brothers Dogg."

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And Gail and I lived
with Jon and his wife

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up in Portland, Oregon
for several months

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several years ago.

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And we had a big dog, part
Newfoundland, part Labrador,

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and he had a giant
German shepherd.

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We kept getting notices
from the dog pound people.

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We were having lots of
trouble in the neighborhood.

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There were lots of
female dogs in heat,

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so they'd jump the fence.

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There was no way
of containing them,

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and the whole
several months was--

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We kept our good
humor in what happened

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to be emotionally
difficult times for us

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by washing the dogs and
treating them as humans.

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In the end, it turned out
that the dogs were really

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reflections of our
own characters.

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Anyways, it's called Ye--

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's called "Ye
Brothers Dogg," and it's

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dedicated to Hodain D.
Dogg and Tuli Orlen.

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By the way, one more
thing, it's written

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in a sort of bastardized
combination of Middle English

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and Bobby Burns Scottish.

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"Ye dog O'Toole, who hath
not work at love, nor art,

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nor goeth school, sayeth
with fart at golden rule.

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Be it bitch or biscuit
or platter stew,

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ye palate alone shall guide you.

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Ye dog Hodain forgoeth bone,
nor doth disdain to moan.

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For wind and rain, ye snow
and ye seasons, sun, and world

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roll on.

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But ye days a dog are not long."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Brothers two, ye slim Hodain
and fat O'Toole, beneath fence,

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diggeth hole.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Into ye world ye brothers dance.

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Nor would return, ye fat
O'Toole and slim Hodain.

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Sooner is report, brothers two
doth run amok in neighborhood.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Cautions O'Toole,
'Hodain, ye may bark,

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may scowl, and be rude.

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But do not bite ye hand
what giveth dog food.'

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[LAUGHTER]

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Though all complain of brothers
two, no wind nor rain doth

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drive them home.

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Then sayeth Hodain to brother,
'O'Toole, though we have been

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friends through thick and thin,
dog needeth some love from

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man.'

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So end ye song of brothers two.

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Away they had flown,
and back they flew.

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Reclineth ye yard
through seasons and sun,

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through wind and
rain, ye snow, ye fog.

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O'Toole, Hodain,
ye brothers dog."

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[APPLAUSE]

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