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This is a poem from poem
book called Austerities.

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It's called My Weariness
of Epic Proportions.

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Anyway, what can I
say about the poem?

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Nothing.

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I'll just read it.

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I like it when Achilles
gets killed and even

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his buddy, Patroclus, and
that hard head, Hector.

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And the whole Greek and
Trojan jeunesse dorée

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is more or less
expertly slaughtered.

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So there is finally
peace and quiet,

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the gods having
momentarily shut up.

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One can hear a bird sing.

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And a daughter asks her mother
whether she can go to the well

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and of course she can, by that
lovely little path that winds

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through the olive orchard.

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The reason I laughed
while I was reading I

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remembered that someone once
after reading, obviously,

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I have a terrible
pessimist telling me,

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of course you get
scraped in the eyeballs.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And I pushed him away.

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I thought this is
so dark, I didn't

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want to be near this
vision, this idea.

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