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Last poem is called "Neighbors."

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Will they have children?

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Will they have more children?

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Exactly what is their
position on dogs--

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large or small, chained
or running free?

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Is the wife smarter
than the man?

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Is she older?

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Will this cause
problems down the line?

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Will he be promoted?

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If not, will this
cause marital stress?

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Does his family approve
of her and vice versa?

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How do they handle the
whole in-law situation?

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Is it causing some
discord already?

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If she goes back to work,
can he fix his own dinner?

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Is his endless
working about the yard

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and puttering with
rain gutters really

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just a pretext for avoiding
the problems inside the house?

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Do they still have sex?

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Do they satisfy one another?

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Would he like to
have more, would she?

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Can they talk about
their problems?

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In their most private fantasies,
how would each of them

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change their lives?

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And what do they think of
us as neighbors, as people?

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They are certainly
cordial to us.

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Painfully polite when we
chance encounter one another

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at the roadside mailboxes, but
then like opposite magnets,

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we lunge backward, back into
our own deep root systems.

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Darkness and lust,
strangling any living thing

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to quench our thirst and nourish
our helplessly solitary lives.

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And we love our
neighborhood for giving us

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this precise opportunity,
this precious opportunity.

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And we love our dogs, our
children, our husbands

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and wives.

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It's just all so damn
difficult. Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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