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This is-- next is
a kind of, it's

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sort of an advice
on courtship poem,

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but the politics
gets mixed up in it.

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It's called Letchworth
State Park, which

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is a state park near Buffalo.

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Because she pauses a
while in the middle

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of the shaky footbridge
to look down at the spume,

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not listening as you mentioned
the refreshment stand

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and the options for
the evening movie,

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you needn't assume she's
sorry she's come with you,

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and would rather be pausing
elsewhere with someone else.

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Maybe it doesn't even mean she
thinks of you as a stranger,

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though it shouldn't
surprise you if she does.

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Put yourself in her place.

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Think how thousands
could have given

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the speech you gave
on the drive down,

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about Honduras and El Salvador.

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How we keep staining
our flag by backing

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the rich few against the
poor many, thousands.

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And how can she be
sure that your words

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betoken a love of justice?

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Hours of lost sleep,
and not spoken merely

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to fill the ride up.

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And how can you be sure?

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It can't be reason
you want from her.

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A bridge more rickety than
the bridge she's standing on,

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swaying over a deeper gorge.

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It can't be meager honesty.

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Something your words
can summon will

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have to summon itself
and take her by the hand

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and lead her across,
if she's to feel

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what friends feel greeting on
the dock after a long voyage.

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Let me look at you, is all
they say, you look good.

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You look wonderful.

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