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"The Spring Cricket's
Grievance: Little Outburst."

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"Tired of singing
for someone else.

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Tired of rubbing my
thighs to catch your ear.

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When the sky falls tonight,
I'll stand on my one green leaf,

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and it will be my time,
my noise, my ecstasy."

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I'm a night person.

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So that-- sometimes I feel
it's night and it's mine.

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And I was really
happy to discover

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that my daughter actually
had used that poem

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as a screensaver for a while.

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It was to inspire her to write
her doctoral defense or thesis.

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