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I have been working on a new
book and one of the poems

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is on the broadside that I have.

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But these poems have
changed a little-- changed

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the way I write a little.

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And my friends tell
me that they've

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taken a curve of some kind.

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I don't quite know
what they are but what

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that curve means but anyway.

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Before I read them,
I want to read a poem

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that I wrote some time ago.

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I don't know.

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How many of you know
Wallace Stevens's "13 Ways

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of Looking at a Blackbird?"

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OK, thank you.

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This is "13 Ways of
Looking at Hate."

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Number one, the eyes smiled
outside of their sockets.

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Number two, looking into
himself, he saw nothing.

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Number three, he spilled
his unbelief over the table.

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Number four, crying she
could not hear herself.

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Number five, the wind
gave resurrections

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which the heart rejected.

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Number six, gouge out
your eyes for me he said,

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they are too bright.

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Number seven, I love
what is furtive.

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Number eight, the song
came but could not sing.

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Number nine, make hay
while the dark shines.

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Number 10, she
gave him an apple.

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Number 11, why couldn't he
laugh, it was a good joke.

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Number 12, down the
avenue came another.

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Number 13, what if they
recognized each other.

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Number 14, Hiroshima,
the bomb blew bones

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into silent kitchens.

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