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Everybody in this room's
got a Prince poem.

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I know.

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How many of y'all
got a Prince poem?

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is mine, because Prince
came from the Midwest,

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and people forget that.

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But he didn't because he
was a hard working guy.

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All right-- and I
always thought him

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and Garrison Keillor
had a thing, but anyway.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Prince on Prairie Home
Companion: An Invention."

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All right.

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And this is my way of
celebrating the purple one.

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"After the song about
buttermilk biscuits,

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or a horse named Buttermilk,
the eye-shadowed one

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emerges in a cloud of
streamers purple and gold.

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He sits before the baby grand.

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A wan smile crosses
his heart shaped face.

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And then he sings an
old hymn, I'll Fly Away

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or is it the Beautiful River?

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Garrison Keillor joins in
for some tremulous harmony

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and the audience sits,
hushed and bothered.

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Their faith exalted, an
ecstatic chorus ends,

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then Keillor tries
for some banter.

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But once the piano keys
are no longer struck,

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up stands this tiny regal man.

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He gives a slight
bow to his host,

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to the audience,
and then departs.

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An odd commercial follows for a
faux shampoo, or a power tools.

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Who can remember.

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The streamers
criss-cross the stage

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until the janitors
broom them away.

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And golden glitter
streaks the piano keys

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while Keillor's
tears are not seen.

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He knows another man of the
plains has left his mark.

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Those chords, his voice,
mascara in the green room."

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I liked Prince.

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I really did.

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