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Well, here's another-- this
time when I slightly go--

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what I want to do now?

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I don't know.

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Let me see something entirely
different as Monty Python says

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or something entirely
different something.

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This is a poem called
"Henri Rousseau's Bed,"

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the painter, the primitive
painter, Rousseau.

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I used to hate writing--

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I mean, the idea of people
writing poems about paintings.

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I wish that they all
ended up in red China

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so Mao could send them to
work in the rice fields.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But that was years ago.

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If somebody says something
to me about Rousseau and--

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I don't know.

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You'll see.

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"Henri Rousseau's Bed," "I
took my bed into the forest.

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How peaceful, I thought.

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When the full moon came out, the
white stag nibbled my pillow.

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The night bird sang in the
hand of the huge hairy ape.

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It was not a bird of paradise.

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It was a gypsy with a mandolin.

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I had to run naked with my
bed, knock at the prison gate,

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ask for their darkest solitary.

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They obliged, rats and all.

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The executioner's
lovely daughter

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coming to visit on tiptoes.

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Sad bread she brought,
the world's saddest.

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Her beauty bandaged my eyes.

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No small feat to
get that bed out

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of there on insomnia's bicycle.

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Like a worm crossing
the Brooklyn Bridge,

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I found myself in a
philosopher's kitchen.

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It was cold and
white as at the Pole.

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Snow kept falling
into empty pots.

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I could have used a team
of dogs to pull my bed,

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a queue of sleepwalkers.

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At the late movies where
I found myself next,

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bedded under the screen, the
great Egyptian-style theater

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empty, one could hear
the wind between stars.

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In the picture, a lonely veiled
woman clutched a handkerchief

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to her breast.

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Are you the gypsy, I shouted?

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And if so, where
is your mandolin?

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No, she replied.

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I'm the executioner's
lovely daughter.

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I'm on my way to the
Galapagos Islands.

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I need tortoise glasses
to look for my love who

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is asleep in a dark forest."

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