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If I address myself to the
vulgar side of the audience,

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it's out of decency.

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I read yesterday in Phoenix,
so that's sort of nice

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because it gives me a chance to
read some poems I don't usually

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read.

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So I'll start out
with some older

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poems, a couple of
very short love poems,

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as a matter of fact.

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First one called, "Tonight."

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If I were to reach beyond my
hands, nakedness colliding

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with itself, bone dust
complexion in a silent drift

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toward the moon, I
would, at the same time,

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show you this
fist, which reaches

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inwardly to touch, finally,
the lovely fossils of the palm.

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You turn from me, toward
the snowstorm of the pillow.

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Look, I am the stranger you
have come this far to love.