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This is maybe one in
sort of the same spirit.

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This poem was
written in response

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to a pullout quote
in the University

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of Washington Daily, which
is the campus newspaper up

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in Seattle.

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A terrible thing
had just happened.

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A kid had fallen off of a
third story balcony and died.

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And I just thought
the quote in the paper

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was unintentionally comic.

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And I wanted to rescue the
situation from the quote,

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as much as a poem is ever
going to be able to do that.

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The epigraph from
the UW Daily goes,

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'"I just don't want everyone
to remember him as the guy who

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fell off the balcony.

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He was so much more to us."

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That seemed wrong.

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So, anyway.

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This poem is called,
"Four Things More".

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"Say he sent gingerbread
to the criminally forlorn.

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Say he left too soon
like Thomas Chatterton.

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Say he brokered a truce
between the buckthorn

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and the peppercorn.

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Say he was loved.

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He must have been."

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