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So my friend, Greg,
has taken some poems

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of mine and he's written music.

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I'm going to read a poem.

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These are older poems
and then I'm just

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going to listen to them.

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Listen to the poem
and then imagine

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how it would be as music.

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And you'll hear Alina's voice
say the poem again to you.

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Much better than my version.

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The first is a poem called
''Lightning at Night'', or

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''Listening at Night'', or.

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[LAUGHTER]

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We haven't decided.

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It's jazz.

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[LAUGHTER]

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''Lightning at Night''.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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''The white flash blows
you back against me.

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The whole skies ablaze,
sulfuric blues and grays.

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Utterly still and for one
moment we see things the same.

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Trees whipped and
shorn as if shamed.

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Beyond which is boiling, now
green, a perilous sea of storm

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clouds low over all the houses.

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The earlier heat hovers as steam
above the slick closed roofs.

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You touch my neck, it's
not fear, not tenderness,

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to see if I am ready as you are.

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Though we've known
all along what's

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to come as crushingly
dark returns.

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The whole world explodes,
shattered on its black trunk

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and vanishes, leaving
echoes to carry on.

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Us, split in two''.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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(SINGING) The white flash
blows you against me.

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The whole skies ablaze,
sulphuric blues and grays.

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Utterly still and for one
moment we see things the same.

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Trees whipped and
shorn as if shamed.

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Beyond which is boiling, now
green, a perilous sea of storm

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clouds low over all the houses.

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The earlier heat hovers as steam
above the slick closed roofs.

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You touch my neck, it's
not fear, not tenderness,

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to see if I am ready as you are.

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Though we've known
all along what's

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to come as crushingly
dark returns.

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The whole world explodes,
shattered on it's black trunk

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and vanishes, leaving
echoes to carry on.

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Us, split in two.

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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