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I'm going to skip
right to the end,

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right to the last three poems.

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In fact, the last two
poems, it's getting late.

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Page 28 on the right hand side.

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What?

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It's not late.

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It's 10 till!

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Well, it's 15
minutes, good grief.

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This is a poem called
"Sudden Departure"

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but I won't leave
immediately afterwards.

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It's about someone
who wants to escape,

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and who takes the occasion sort
of a freak extraordinary event

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to make his getaway.

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As you can see the
first line says,

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"A sudden raisin storm broke."

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Yes, that's raisins,
that's not a typo.

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"A sudden raisin storm
broke, raisins falling

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everywhere, pell-mell.

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The occasion uniqued my head."

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It uniqued my head,
it did, it really did.

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"The occasion uniqued my head.

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I thought, if this
can happen, raisins

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raining upon persons
paining, why, I can leave

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any time without feeling shame.

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But, but, all the same,
before taking off,

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some vestigial guilt or
other made me at least get up

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before some public gathering
or other, a departing oration.

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Druthers, I am going now.

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Druthers, I tried to love
you, though you always

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made me choose between
you, you, and you.

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Oh my druthers, goodbye,
I have my reasons.

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Did he say raisins?

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No, reasons.

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Oh, I just wondered, what
with the weather and all."

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[APPLAUSE]

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