I'm going to skip right to the end,
right to the last three poems.
In fact, the last two poems, it's getting late.
Page 28 on the right hand side.
What?
It's not late.
It's 10 till!
Well, it's 15 minutes, good grief.
This is a poem called "Sudden Departure"
but I won't leave immediately afterwards.
It's about someone who wants to escape,
and who takes the occasion sort of a freak extraordinary event
to make his getaway.
As you can see the first line says,
"A sudden raisin storm broke."
Yes, that's raisins, that's not a typo.
"A sudden raisin storm broke, raisins falling
everywhere, pell-mell.
The occasion uniqued my head."
It uniqued my head, it did, it really did.
"The occasion uniqued my head.
I thought, if this can happen, raisins
raining upon persons paining, why, I can leave
any time without feeling shame.
But, but, all the same, before taking off,
some vestigial guilt or other made me at least get up
before some public gathering or other, a departing oration.
Druthers, I am going now.
Druthers, I tried to love you, though you always
made me choose between you, you, and you.
Oh my druthers, goodbye, I have my reasons.
Did he say raisins?
No, reasons.
Oh, I just wondered, what with the weather and all."
[APPLAUSE]