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My last poem is dedicated to my
former students, many of whom

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are here in the audience.

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Thank you for letting
me learn with you

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and letting me be myself.

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Make mistakes.

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I appreciate it.

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I hope you recognize this place.

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"The place may be
clean and tidy,

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and have for
furniture only a mat.

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If there are windows, if they
are large so much the better.

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If there's a flower or a
picture, that's special.

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If there is a teacher, there
may be respite from sorrow.

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If there is rain, remember the
occasion of the double rainbow.

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If there is a marriage,
there may be need of a goat.

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About beauty, the old ones
could not have foreseen.

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If there is love, think on these
things, honey, nuts, olives.

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If they are taken
from nature, there

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will be nothing to
behold, nor an eye.

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A poet will have to sing
of the ineffable as true.

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To begin with a
palace of pearls."

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Thank you.

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