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Oh, I'm awfully old-fashioned.

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And I believe that there are
some words that ladies should

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never say under
any circumstances

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and gentlemen should use only
in the laboratory, I guess--

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or a lavatory, whichever.

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At any rate, there
is one word here

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that I never used
when I was young.

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But I hope you'll forgive me.

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I think you'll recognize
it when it comes up.

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This poem is another
poem about the dawn,

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about the sun coming up.

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"Dawn."

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In the middle of
winter, there may

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be men jumping up and
down outside their huts

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in their flight suits yelling,
"Sun, sun, your vagina

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smells horrid."

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That's the lesson they
learn in extremis,

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not the farmer who each
day smiles idiotically

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over his acres of peas just
after she comes swooning up

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without a word from
him to make them

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smell sweet; to have his
wife dancing in old age,

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put them in bottles, and send
their sealed sweetness away;

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but what the sailor swimming
in the bilge out of luck

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imagines outside, the insult
that keeps him constantly

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afloat through a
few more strokes;

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or what the dog
locked in the cellar

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when the family went away
for the weekend now barks at,

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celebrates for a
moment, the footsteps-

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the footsteps, the busy
house on fire above him."