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You know, poets steal from
each other all the time.

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If you try to be honorable--

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this poem talks about that.

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I went over to my friend's--

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this is another island
I was living on,

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and I'd found him a place on
the other side of the valley.

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Because I was living
an isolate life,

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I didn't want to have
people come to the house.

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I would go over
and see him to see

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if he was all right every
few evenings, every other,

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every third evening.

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And one evening he
told me this story.

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I said, you should try
to-- that's really a poem.

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Because he was trying
to write poetry.

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And then I got home and I kept
wanting to write this poem,

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and I kept wanting
to write this poem.

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And I did write this poem.

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But I couldn't keep it.

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I couldn't use it.

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And it tormented me so.

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So this is my
version of cheating.

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It's called Stealing
from Donald.

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Sometimes in the evening
when the day cools,

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I cross the empty valley
to see my friend, who

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told me a strange
story two months ago

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and I said there was
a real poem in that.

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He's been trying to
write it ever since.

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I did my version that week,
but it's still his story,

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so I can't tell you
what happens over there.

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[AUDIENCE LAUGHTER]