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My readings have always
contained two sections.

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There's been a carnal
section, a carnality section

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and the mortality section.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And at the beginning,
the carnality section

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was extended and powerful.

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The mortality section
was very short.

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And now, it's the
other way around.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It'll come to you all, too.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Anyway, as this is
a selected poems

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drawn from my entire work,
I can at least remember.

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This is for anybody
who's feeling peckish.

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Artichoke.

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The nubbed leaves come
away in a tease of green,

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thinning down to the membrane.

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The quick purpled
beginnings of the male.

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Then the slow
hairs of the heart,

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the choke that guards its
trophy, its vegetable goblet.

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The meat of it lies
displayed, upended, al dente,

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the stub root aching in its oil.

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