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This is my first time at
the University of Arizona.

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But Arizona is an old
story for me in many ways.

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Since 1925, it's a
part of the country--

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the Southwest-- it has captured
my imagination long, long ago.

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And I've seen it a
number of times--

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but never enough and
never completely.

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And I'm very grateful to
be invited here tonight.

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And I thank you all, and
thank you for your presence.

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I'm going to read
some poems more

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or less in the chronological
order of composition--

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but not necessarily that.

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I'm not going back
to old, old poems

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that I'm so tired of looking at.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But much more recent poems
than those tired old poems.

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With little comment.

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I don't think the poems will
live or die by my comment.

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So I trust them to
your generosity.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is called Little
Boy and Lost Shoe.

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The little boy lost
his shoe in the field.

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Home he hobbled, not caring,
with a stick whipping

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goldenrod.

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Go find that shoe right now.

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I mean it.

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And he went, not now singing,
though the field was big.

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Under the sky he walked.

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And the sky was big.

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Sunlight touched the goldenrod
and yellowed his hair.

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But the sun was low now.

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And oh, he should know.

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He must hurry to find that
shoe or the sun will be down.

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Oh hurry boy, for the grass
will be tall as the tree.

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Hurry, for the moon has bled,
though not with a heart,

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as pity.

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Hurry, for time is money.

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And the sun is low.

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Yes, damn it, hurry.

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For shoes cost money, you know.

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I don't know why you
dawdle and do not hurry.

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The mountains are leaning
their heads together to watch.

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How dilatory can a
boy be, I ask you?

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Off in Wyoming,
the mountains lean.

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They watch.

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They know.

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