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The next is about a flower.

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And not a carnivorous
one, either, it's

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about the nasturtium.

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I guess you all know
that the nasturtium.

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I say this because a very
sophisticated friend of mine,

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in his 30s, I would
have thought knew

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the nasturtium had no idea
what I was talking about.

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You know, it's
that garden flower

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that, anyway in California,
grows almost anywhere,

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it grows wild.

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It's kind of shell-shaped.

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You have it, I'm
sure, everywhere.

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It's the first thing you
give to children to plant,

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because it always comes up.

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You give them this huge
seed and they can't miss it.

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And they plant it,
and it always grows.

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This is about a nasturtium
that ventures into the street

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and becomes a kind of
street person, I guess.

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This is one this is one of a
few, a group of magical poems

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that I'll read now.

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Nasturtium, born in
a soil waste lot,

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you labored up to
light, bunching

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what strength you'd got
and running out of sight

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through a nut hole, at last,
to come forth in the sun,

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as if without a past.

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Done with it, we begun.

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Now, street side of the fence,
you take a few green turns,

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nimble in nonchalance, before
your first flower burns.

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From poverty and prison
and undernourishment,

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a prodigal has risen.

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Self-spending, never
spent, regular yellow shell

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and drooping spur behind.

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Not rare, but beautiful.

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Street handsome, as
you wind and leap,

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hold after hold, a golden
runaway, still running,

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strewing gold from
side to side all day.

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It's a wonderful flower, you get
so many flowers from no trouble

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at all.

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I say that as a gardener.

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In one's middle age,
one becomes a gardener.

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Nothing could have interested
me less, until I was about 40.

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And gardening, now I love it.

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