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This is a poem called "Matthew
8 verses 28 and following."

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It's a poem referring to that
matter of the Gadarene swine,

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and the speaker is the
head Gadarene, Gadarite,

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whatever they called him.

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"Rabbi, we Gadarenes
are not aesthetics,

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we are fond of wealth
and possessions.

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Love as you call it, we obviate
by means of the planned release

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of aggressions.

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We have deep faith
in prosperity.

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Soon it is hoped we will
reach our full potential.

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In the light of
our gross product,

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the practice of charity
is palpably inessential.

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It is true that we go insane.

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That for no good reason we
are possessed by devils,

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that we suffer despite the
amenities, which obtain

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it all but the lowest levels.

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We shall not however
resign our trust

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in the high-heaped table
and the full trough.

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If you cannot cure us
without destroying our swine,

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we had rather you shoved off."

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I have an annotated edition
of Matthew which tells me

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that that's the
wrong interpretation,

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but I rather like it.

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This next is a poem
called, "A Late Aubade."

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As everybody knows, an aubade is
an early morning amorous poem.

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This is an amorous poem spoken
by a man to his wife in bed

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about 11:45, "A Late Aubade."

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"You could be sitting
now in a carrel turning

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some liver-spotted page, or
rising in an elevator-cage

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toward ladies' apparel.

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You could be planting a raucous
bed of salvia in rubber gloves,

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or lunching through a
screed of someone's loves

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with pitying head, or making
some unhappy setter heel,

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or listening to a bleak
lecture on Schoenberg's

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serial technique.

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Isn't this better?

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Think of all the time
you are not wasting,

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and would not care to waste.

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Such things, thank God,
not being to your taste.

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Think what a lot of time by a
woman's reckoning you've saved,

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and so may spend on this.

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You who would rather lie in
bed and kiss than anything.

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It's almost noon you
say, if so, time flies

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and I need not rehearse the
rosebuds theme of centuries

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of verse.

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If you must go,
wait for a while,

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then slip downstairs and bring
us up some chilled white wine,

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and some blue cheese and
crackers, and some fine

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ruddy-skinned pears."

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That's-- a friend of mine said
that's a piece of inexorable

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middle aged sexuality.

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[LAUGHTER]

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