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This is a book of--

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it's a new book too, but
of very short, short poems.

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So short that I'm reading
in Cambridge in a bookstore,

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I said, well these
ones are really short,

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I have no idea
how long the last.

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So when I read this next
poem that I'm about to read,

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a lady in the audience
said, 30 seconds.

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It's a short poem.

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"The Flea."

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"What a little flea loves to
see, is two lovers undress

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and jump into bed, and be done
with their lovemaking quickly,

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so it can have
them all to itself.

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As they nod off in
each other's arms,

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quitting their snoring only
to scratch themselves."

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