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I'm going to end
with a love poem.

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It's new-- called "Bodega."

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"Tulip, two bunch, 12 at the
bodega, corner of 19th Street.

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January just begun.

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Handing sign above metal
tubs, sporting this panoply

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of shades whose
curve and surface

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rhyme with the skin on
my lover's shoulders.

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Two of the uncounted places on--

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oh, let's call him you--

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where my hands like to rest.

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I've studied the
spectrum of possibility

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displayed beneath a
striped, rain glazed awning

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and made my choice.

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Three branches of plum
decked at their tips

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with spherical green
ideas of bloom.

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To purchase a bud is to buy a
prospect, to entertain beliefs.

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He'll be at my place in
an hour, just off work.

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The bit of future
I'm carrying home

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is bundled in clear
wrapping and jeweled

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with a little rain, a gift given
as much to myself as to-- oh,

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let's say you.

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Unwrap these and open.

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Unexpected, early in the
year, later in my life, long

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in coming, though sudden
still and splendid: spring."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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