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There's two scenes in the next
poem, which is called "Pilots."

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One is on a ranch,
an isolated ranch

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which is supplied by airplane.

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And the next scene, I hate
to get local about it,

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but he's in Polo Village.

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I'm not sure I get the
two working together,

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but that's one of the ideas.

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One word you might
need to know about

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is remuda, which is a string
of horses that is used.

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Well, that's the
name of the string

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of horses that is used on
a daily basis on a ranch.

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So "Pilots."

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I've spent my life in a
foolish, evil and crazy manner

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of false alarms.

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Chasing the remuda off
the runway with a spade.

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Lying about my
feelings and finally,

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in the bunker of the
double logged root cellar.

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Moving the cartons of Coke
to get at the dead raccoon.

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An envelope with a love
letter extracted from it.

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Heard the ultimate insult,
the supply plane, an anthem.

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An anthem curving around
the ridge on one wing.

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Thought in my mind,
that greasing itself

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in with a splash over its
nose across the pasture.

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The cabin girls rushing
out, bobbing up and down.

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The passengers of
erect ship about to be

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rescued from the waves.

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While grinning in
his seat, the pilot

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passed out transistor radios.

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Letters from their
boyfriends, the fruit

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cakes that at night and
the dystrophic kerosene

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light of the big cabin,
they waltz around with.

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Nevertheless, when
I get home, it's

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good to see that civilization
is much the same.

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My truant friends who
ran South to Lake Sakala,

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following the herds of flamingos
streaking through their heads

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are back early.

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Finding the water polluted.

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The Indians malnourished,
but uncaring.

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And now all day they sit
outside their Quonset hut,

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and this unusual heat
beneath their one half

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of a rigged parachute.

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And their jerry-built shade with
the faraway look of a couple,

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discovering itself still in
love, though long married.

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While in a tear over
their blessed heads,

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enough blue sky to
wink at slaps away.

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