And I think that's enough poems from this book.
And I'm going to move on to another book.
I wrote -- when I first started that I didn't even have a book.
So how would I get through an hour with my poems?
So I would sing songs.
[LAUGHTER]
I think this book is not available outside.
By the way, these books are on sale very cheap.
You can negotiate with the bookseller out there.
[LAUGHTER]
Don't accept his first price.
[LAUGHTER]
Just say, what?
Eight dollars?
I haven't eaten for three days.
[LAUGHTER]
Try that one.
See how far it'll get you.
I'll read a short poem called "Drowning on the Pamet River."
Now the Pamet River is a river at the Cape.
You know that river chain?
And it's only three-miles long.
And says 84, but-- oh, it's because 84 is the next page.
And I don't have my reading glasses with me.
I can't see with my reading glasses.
But I can't see without them either.
I had an operation-- cured everything.
I used to be able to see real well.
[LAUGHTER]
Anyhow, you have to read the paper
in the morning to see which way the tides are going--
to know that if you swim out, you swim this way not that way,
or you're SOL.
Does everybody know what "SOL" means?
[LAUGHTER]
And-- anyone not know what "SOL" means?
They're afraid to say, aren't you?
Shit out of luck.
So this describes me swimming the wrong way
and not being able to read the charts right.
"Drowning on the Pamet River."
"Because of the pull, I ended up swimming in the grasses
100 yards from nowhere.
My beloved's ready to jump in after me.
A black willow rushing in to save me-- my kind of dolphin.
You think I struggled a yard at a time,
but I was nudged a little.
That's why my lips were red instead of blue.
That's why I had the words to "The Dipsy Doodle"
still on my tongue.
And I was waltzing under your huge white towel,
your bathrobe over my head, hot tea already burning my throat.
That's why I love the two Labradors so much.
That's why I kissed you so desperately."
"The Dipsy Doodle."
How many know the words to that?
I can remember the first line.
(SINGING) The Dipsy Doodle you better beware.
The Dipsy Doodle gets into your hair.
And when it gets you-- da da-da da da.
You go rub dun dun dun dun-dun dun.
That's the way the Dipsy Doodle works.
Da dum doo doo-doo doo.