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--a couple of short poems
from this recent book.

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This one is only a few lines
long and it's a reaction--

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I guess it's--

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I think a lot more poems
of mine that I'd like to--

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that I did that are
written out of irritation

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like "Marco Polo."

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And this one is based
on an expression

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that you hear all too often
these days, the expression

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being "oh my god," which is
a corollary to "I was, like,

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oh my god"--

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[LAUGHTER]

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[INAUDIBLE] version
of oh my god.

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But this is just the
simple "Oh My God."

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"Not only in church and
nightly by their bedsides

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do young girls pray these days.

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Wherever they go, prayer
is woven into their talk

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like a bright thread of awe.

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Even at the pedestrian
mall outbursts of praise

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spring unbidden from
their glossy lips."

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[LAUGHTER AND APPLAUSE]

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