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It's a poem called--

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this one just has some
fun with some cliches.

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It's a poem-- wrong book.

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Here, it's a poem
called "Adage."

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"Adage."

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"When it's late at
night and branches

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are banging against
the windows, you

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might think that love is
just a matter of leaping out

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of the frying pan of yourself
into the fire of someone else,

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but it's a little more
complicated than that.

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It's more like
trading two birds who

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might be hiding in
that bush for the one

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you are not holding
in your hand.

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A wise man once
said that love was

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like forcing a horse
to dream but then

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everyone stopped
thinking of him as wise.

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Let's be clear
about some things.

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Love is not as
simple as getting up

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on the wrong side of the bed,
wearing the emperor's clothes.

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No, it's more like the
way the pen feels after it

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has defeated the sword.

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It's a little like a penny saved
for the nine dropped stitches.

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You look at me through the
halo of the last candle

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and tell me that love
is an old wind that

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has no turning, a row
that blows no good.

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But I am here to remind
you, as our shadows

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tremble on the walls, that
love is the early bird.

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It was better late than never."

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[APPLAUSE]

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