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You have to tell me if
this is loud enough.

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I'm going to read two short
poems and one very long poem.

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The first poem is
called "To the Dead."

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And it mentions a movie,
The Gorilla, G-O-R-I-L-L-A.

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And it stars the Ritz Brothers.

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And people in general, don't
seem to know the Ritz brothers

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anymore.

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So they are a comedy
team-- were a comedy team.

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Not quite as sophisticated
as the Marx Brothers.

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But they had their virtues, a
kind of seedy burlesque energy.

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And in any case, in this
film, they played detectives.

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You can imagine what kind
of detectives they are.

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"To the Dead."

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"What I hope, when I
hope, is that we'll

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see each other again.

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And again, reach the vein in
which we loved each other.

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It existed.

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It existed.

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There is a night
within the night.

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For like the detectives, the
Ritz Brothers in The Gorilla,

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once we'd been battered
by the gorilla,

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we searched the walls,
the intricately carved

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impenetrable paneling,
for a button,

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lever, latch, that
unlocks the secret door.

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That reveals at last, the
secret chambers, corridors

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within walls.

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The disenthralling,
necessary, dream structure

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beneath the structure
we see that is

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the house within the house.

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There's a night
within the night.

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There were, for
example, months when

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I seemed only to displease,
frustrate, disappoint you.

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Then something triggered
a drunk lasting for days.

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And as you slowly and
shakily sobered up,

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sick, throbbing with
remorse and self-loathing,

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insight like ashes clung
to, useless, hated.

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This was the viewing of
the power of the waters

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but the waters were asleep.

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Secrets, histories of loves,
betrayals, double-binds, not

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fit you thought, for
the light of day.

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There's a night
within the night.

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For there are times
at night still,

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we inhabit the secret
place together.

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Is this wisdom?

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Or self-pity?

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The love I've known is the
love of two people staring,

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not at each other, but
in the same direction."

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