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Another-- well,
this is not exactly

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a breakup poem, next
to it on the page,

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this is an unrequited love poem.

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And the lover is sitting in
a drive-in movie show, sort

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of half watching the movie.

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Actually he's watching the
movie through his straw.

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And he's got the
iced Coke in his lap,

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trying to freeze his
romantic area down there, so

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that he is not--

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and he's thinking
about his lost love,

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and he's thinking about how
she got out of it by saying,

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well, we really
don't go together,

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our chemistry is not
right, the DNA or whatever.

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And so he tries to console
himself with this concept,

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you know, this sociobiological
concept that it's not--

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we really have no
control over our needs,

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or our physical urges,
and it's the DNA in us,

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or it's the genetic
makeup in us that

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causes us to choose partners.

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And so he's trying to
console himself with that.

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This poem is called "The
Consolations of Sociobiology."

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Those scars rooted me.

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Stigmata stalagmite
I sat at a drive-in

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and watched the stars through a
straw while the Coke in my lap

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went waterier and waterier.

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For days on end or nights no
end I crawled on all fours

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or in my case no
fours to worship you--

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Amoeba Behemoth.

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--Then then you explained your
DNA calls for meaner genes

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than mine and since
you are merely so

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to speak its external expression
etcet ergo among your lovers

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I'll never be.

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Ah, that movie was so far
away the stars melting

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made my thighs icy.

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I see--" It's

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[LAUGHTER]

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I see-- It's not you, it's not
you who is not requiting me,

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it's not you who is
not requiting my love.

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--"it's not you who
is not requiting me,

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it's something in you over which
you have no say says no to me."

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Well you have to
console yourself

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some way, when those
unrequited romances occur.