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I want to sort of read
something totally different.

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This is called "Old
Mountain Road."

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I used to live on a sort
of a hill, top of a hill.

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And it's one of those
experiences that you--

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if I told you about it--

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I mean, it's all in
the poem in a sense--

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I would let the cat out of the
bag, so "Old Mountain Road."

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Something happened
that astonished me

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so much that I
thought I had a vision

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for the first time in my life.

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I was William Blake or
Allen Ginsberg or something,

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you know?

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"Old Mountain Road."

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"In the dusk of the
evening, when the goats

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come, the two pale ones nodding
as they pass, unattended,

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taking their time to
graze by the curve,

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its sharpness indicated
by a broken arrow.

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In the last bit of daylight,
I saw a blonde little girl

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step out of nowhere and
bow to them stiffly,

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as one does at the
conclusion of a school play,

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and disappear, pinafore
and all, in the bushes,

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so that I sat on my
porch dumbfounded.

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The goats' intermittent tinkle
growing fainter and fainter

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and then hushing, as if on
cue, for the whippoorwill

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to take over briefly
in the giant maple.

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Child, I thought of calling out,
knowing myself a born doubter."

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Well, the solution to the
mystery, some kids dressed--

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being dressed for a
school play up the road,

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sneaking through the
bushes, and et cetera.

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The goats did it.

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I mean, the goats sort
of ushered the vision.

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Let's see now.

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