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And I'll finish this poem--

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this book.

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And it's called-- well,
it's a kind of analogy.

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I mean, I was in the
cottage that they

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have photographs and
little albums of past poets

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who stayed there.

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And I knew all of them.

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And many of them
were close friends.

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And they're all dead, you know?

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So it makes a fellow think.

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"So early in the
morning, it pains

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me to see an old woman
fret over a few small coins

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outside the grocery store.

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How swiftly I forget her as
my own grief finds me again,

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a friend at that store and
the memory of the night

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we spent together.

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I had so much love in
my heart afterward,

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I could have run into the
street naked, confident anyone

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I met would
understand my madness

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and my need to tell
them about life

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being both cruel and beautiful.

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But I did not, despite the
overwhelming evidence--

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a crow bent over a dead
squirrel in the road,

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the lilac bushes
flowering in some yards,

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and the sight of a dog,
free from his chain,

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searching through a
neighbor's trash can."

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Thank you.

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