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All right, this is another
fairly long poem, though not

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so long as the really long one.

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It's the first fairly long
section of a longer three part

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poem.

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The title of the poem is
Old-Fashioned Romance on CBS.

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It's a collage poem.

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Much of the language from
it-- about half I suppose,

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is from a New York Times
Review by John Jay O'Connor,

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was made for TV drama.

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All right, the review was
published in May 2, 1979.

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And I just finished this week,
tinkering around with the poem.

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So I've been playing around
with it for a little while,

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not all the time of course
I should also explain

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that there are two phrases.

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One from the review
and one not, that get

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tinkered around in
the poem in a way

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that's clear graphically,
but maybe not orally.

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The first phrase
is "erased art,"

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and that phrase itself
begins to be erased

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and turns into other phrases
as the poem goes along.

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And the other one, which is from
the John Jay O'Connor review

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is the phrase, "the lyrics
groaned on melodiously,"

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which also begins to
lose some of its letters

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and be transmuted.

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I've never read the poem before.

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It's very disjunctive,
with phrases

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coming from different speakers.

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So it may be really rough
going, or it may not.

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We'll see.

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So Old-Fashioned
Romance on CBS One.

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The movie on CBS TV tonight at
9 o'clock, a woman's picture

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in the old-fashioned sense.

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Write it down, but
you a little bit too.

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Floyd called tonight.

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He wanted to know
how to translate

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handbag into Norwegian,
or else into Swedish.

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A business proposition.

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Batik fish torn
between two lovers,

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a woman's picture in
the old-fashioned sense,

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write it down.

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The batik fish swam
slowly across the wall.

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Doris Silverton was
inspired, then licking.

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Red aviator jumpsuit on loan
from Bloomingdale's, felt

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trapped along the
contours of your body.

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It wanted, get off, get
back where it came from.

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Get up, and I wouldn't
really blame you

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if you turned and licking.

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Peter Yarrow song, which was
a hit a couple of years ago,

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inspired Sweden, Belgium, Italy,
possibly France like distance.

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Filmed in Toronto, where
licking fragment of erased art.

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All this may seem a bit, threads
move through the batik fish,

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slowly crossing the wall.

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We are the batik fish.

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The way fish move through
waves, I love you both.

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Representation, exclusively
with yogurt and caviar.

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You were also on loan to
Bloomingdale's at $25 per hour,

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or no then, from Bloomingdale's,
you are on loan from

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Bloomingdale's.

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Or Sweden, where the
heart was torn between,

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the lyrics groaned
on melodiously.

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Yes, Sweden was on loan with
all its fetching occupants,

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imaginatively disposed
inside by the capacity

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for representation.

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Pure torture
ransacking Sweden, all

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over those snow filled fields.

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A representation inside a
representation of Sweden.

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Choked on I love him madly.

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I can't write.

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Keep writing it down, the
garters then dialogue.

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Mixing physical states and
states of consciousness

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in a single report, no.

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The plant looked on,
not wearing its pants.

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The zipper is unzipped,
and curving loops

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approach the abdomen.

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The plant looked
on, everything red

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turned white, revealing a
land as America's shores were

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revealed both
backward and forward

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along the verges of the
spatial temporal horizon.

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Value, which rendered
itself the substance

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under a network of
curving zippers,

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a lattice, which would
have been opened.

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Revealing a land as America's
shores were revealed,

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the lyrics groaned on.

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The plant took off its
pants, unashamed to go naked.

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Stranded at Kennedy
Airport during a snowstorm.

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It had not learned
writing yet, it

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was not yet a violent
plant, disposing

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spatial temporal continuum.

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The batik fish seemed to move.

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The plant looked on morosely.

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Approaching the bright
green shores, erased.

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This queer thing thought.

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He whisks her away,
the lyrics groaned.

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The batik fish commanded
the field of representation.

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Red aviator jumpsuit,
made of threads.

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We are the batik fish.

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He groan, hello Penelope,
weaving, erased srt.

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All this may seem a bit,
folding her laundry,

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Penelope roaned on
melodiously, I love you both.

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No, naus, pickle, he
growls, open marriage,

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is that what you a
rather ordinary kind of?

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All over those
bright green shores,

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carefully designed to allow
wives' romantic fantasies.

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They went to bed
with a, I can't step

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into the river, tax accountant,
just once, groan odiously.

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Suddenly red aviator
jumpsuit, loom

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receding into the labyrinths of
history, revitalized as myths.

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Somewhat later,
licking question one.

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Kissing the fragment, disappear,
rerun eras at batik fish,

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one wild moment named Diane.

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It looks as if refrigerator
stocked, wouldn't really

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blame you if you
turned and exclusively

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with yogurt and woman is named.

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You get 100%, what do I get?

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Lopsided, in favor of smooth
Paul but bed with Paul.

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I love you both, multi-levelled
modern studio lopsided in favor

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of smooth, full share, but
does love rough edged pickle,

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he growls.

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Diane really does
love rough-edge Ted.

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Your body escaped me.

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The fish edged through
batik, its threads

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wove slowly across the wall.

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Trapped in desire to escape
the fates of which they were

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the tools, I mean, materials.

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Red aviator jumpsuit
seem redundant,

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and we behaved like fish
writhing invisible nets.

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Like threads, the
fish was inside,

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in the other room I mean.

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Doris Silverton was inspired,
that's enough of that stuff

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now.

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The red aviator jumpsuit
like groveling on the floor,

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pleading to be returned.

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I love him madly.

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The plant looked on, thinking
the dialogue must have

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been written by someone else.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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