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Well, we're going to skip "Poem
Written to a Poet," on page 9,

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We're going to skip
"Funny Poem," ha ha.

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And we're going to go
on to the next page,

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we're going to skip "FBI
Kills Martin Luther King,"

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and we're going
to land right in--

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well, a place
probably most of you

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have visited with your families,
at Nixon Beach, California--

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The Nixon Memorial.

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As you can see the
poem is entitled

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"At the Nixon Memorial," and
it has two little additions

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that tells you where
it takes place,

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but where everybody knows
Nixon Beach, California, USA.

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And then a little note
out into that saying,

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just minutes away
from Ozymandias Land.

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I mean if you visit Ozymandias
Land, it makes a good day to--

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I mean you might as well
drive over to Nixon Beach

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and see the Memorial.

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The last line, the last
line of this poem is a sort

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of an adaptation of a line from
Paul Valéry's a great poem,

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"The Cemetery by the Sea," or
"The Graveyard by the Sea,"

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which seemed an appropriate
poem to steal something from.

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"At the Nixon Memorial."

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"They say that robots simply
have to slap mirrors up

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against their voice grilles--

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They say that robots simply
have to slap mirrors up

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against their voice grilles to
try and make sure they're not

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breathing, whereas I kiss
caress this monument,

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this eternal mall on
which Herod has chalked

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x, this statue stands for more
than blowjobs in spaceships

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or all our names have razed,
aimless oceans frying,

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while a scab forms on
the world's microphone--

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praise him.

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Oh orgasm you robot's
vomit I come unheck.

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Tape gap, lie back--

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Tape gap, lie back gunked
motel whispers dream.

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Back, gasp, to be the
genre of my frontier!

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One hears aborigines
prefer to, er, fornicate.

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Money for thought, nyet?

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Will the army vote to
internalize its camouflage.

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At the Reagan rotunda Paul
Valéry allowed how shorelines

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change too, rumorous
as their dunes.

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[APPLAUSE]

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