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Two poems that have to
do with the Pacific--

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well, among other things.

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This is one, and it
has to do with things

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that were happening not
only in the Pacific,

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but elsewhere at the same time.

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History is usually
written as though it

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happened in a linear way,
only one thing at a time.

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And as we know that, we
can't blame the historians.

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You can only use the language
in a linear way but--

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because one word does
come after another.

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But everything's happening
at once, as you know.

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We're here all here together.

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"Chord."

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"While Keats wrote,
they were cutting down

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the sandalwood forests.

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While he listened
to the nightingale,

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they heard their own axes
echoing through the forests.

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While he sat in
the walled garden

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on the hill outside the city,
they thought of their gardens

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dying far away on the mountain.

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While the sound of the
words clawed at him,

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they thought of their wives.

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While the tip of
his pen traveled,

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the iron they had coveted
was hateful to them.

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While he thought of
the Grecian woods,

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they bled under red flowers.

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While he dreamed
of wine, the trees

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were falling from the trees.

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While he felt his
heart, they were hungry,

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and their faith was sick.

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While the song broke over him,
they were in a secret place,

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and they were
cutting it forever.

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While he coughed, they
carried the trunks to the hole

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in the forest the size
of a foreign ship.

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While he groaned on
the voyage to Italy,

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they fell on the
trails and were broken.

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When he laid with
the odes behind him,

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the wood was sold for cannons.

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When he lay watching the window,
they came home and lay down,

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and an age arrived
when everything was

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explained in another language."

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