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I'm going to read two
more poems, both of which

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are somewhat longer than
those last four certainly.

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And this one is from
The Sophist and it's

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called Foreign Body Sensation.

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Maybe a symptom that many
of you have experienced.

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Foreign body sensation.

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And it's unlike the
other poems I've

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read in a series of
stanzas which are somewhat

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unrelated to each other at least
in a conventional narrative

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sense.

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And so the pauses that you
hear are between these series

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of stanzas.

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Such hills as hive me
waste away in the refulgent

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concatenations of
failed display.

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Most marvelous of all,
contraptions the hand, of mind,

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makes pace in sensory
profusion to trace the gates.

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Entering more slowly
than auction might allow,

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a brim of distal craves
avenue to mutter on.

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The clutter of this solemnity
induces for a pretense

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what hearers mask anew.

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Sarcastic chirps,
refined alarm, will favor

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for its suasion darts and balm.

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Aviators know the price of calm.

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Yet landlocked coteries
defer from what

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they want, unmitigated
handouts, unerring bumps.

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Toys to hunger for a hankering,
systematic seals of aquamarine,

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sleds portrayed (weighlaid)
against whose barn?

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So there becomes a boating
solid, trained quite

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anappropriately two
points off true mercury.

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The of token as
intended, remanded

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to a building block subtended,
cowering in grass of glass

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(the meadow of the
undivided dividend)

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or yokes its yank to
curvilinear harbinger.

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Her in played other the while.

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Him into herself
thrust and opened.

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His spread, himself as other,
the and around turned later.

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The unfamiliar necessities
of familiar places.

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But I do feel myself bumping,
3/4 of a dozen of us masked,

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hideous sentence.

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Camp down races,
colithiasis cases.

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Why do you say that?

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Because it annoys you.

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A heart as big as a sewer
and a brain as big as--

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but comparisons are innocuous.

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And the first lie replicates
itself in an isolated word.

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Judge lest you not be judged.

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And the world slip by
unknown, you to it, it to you.

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I come here and I see all
these people from my hometown

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give me a warm welcome.

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It made me feel good.

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It gives me strength.

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An important notice
about your rates.

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You put your whole self in.

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You put your whole self out.

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You put your whole self
in and shake it all about.

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Move to later.

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The spire of this
irrevocable rending

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wets the path just
enough for the treachery

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of a slant glimmer, syncopation
against the borderline.

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Forget the blue.

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Nobody's ever advocated blue.

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She could have been the
champion but she wasn't

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exposed to the right opponents.

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No one who would extend her.

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Charmed by his own regard.

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Death is the pall
that skewers all.

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Quote: I am especially
interested in the treatment

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of depression.

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With my Lord and
Savior Jesus Christ

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at the center of my life, I
have found real joy and purpose

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in dedicating myself to the
truth of his teaching as

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written in the Bible.

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What gives the
job its excitement

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is working with Stan Richards,
a nationally recognized

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creative wizard.

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Adweek recently named our agency
among the eight most creative

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in the US.

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I moved into this area after
six years in the aerospace

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industry, which I entered
after early retirement

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from a career as a venture
capitalist and real estate

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developer.

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This has been a stimulating
opportunity for my work

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on late Pleistocene and early
Holocene environmental changes.

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Pat is currently in
Sri Lanka helping

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organize serum collections
for leprosy patients.

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Nowadays, being a husband,
father, homeowner, and Jew

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keeps me both busy
and satisfied.

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I find myself immersed in a
foreign but also satisfyingly

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tangible world of
container shipping.

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I still find the
labor movement to be

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the imperfect representative
of workers' interests

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and the necessary base from
which the realization of class,

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structure, and economic
and social life

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are explained and organized
into coherent worker oriented

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politics.

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It wasn't long
before I found myself

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in the company of a spiritual
adept who teaches the most

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profound way of transcendence of
every kind of self-possession.

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Left the firm and
freelanced in stained glass.

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I studied hula
seriously in Hawaii

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and taught Hawaiian
dance locally,

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forming a hire out band
for bar mitzvahs and luaus.

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To my knowledge, this
is a unique occurrence

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of great spiritual and
cultural significance.

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My work has taken me
into the area of robotics

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and industrial automation.

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For several years I
worked in insurance

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specializing in kidnap and
expropriation coverage.

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A professional interest
has been in the area

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of domestic violence.

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I love the work and feel
strongly about violent crime.

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For a while I served
in the Peace Corps

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in Guatemala as a nurse
working with cancer patients.

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After two years in
Met State, I became

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increasingly eager to work with
severely disturbed children.

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I'm beginning to dabble in
writing screenplays, humor,

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and poetry.

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What time is left I devote
to coursework at the Divinity

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School where I am studying
for the priesthood.

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It seems I have done other
things also, but maybe not.

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In the future I look forward
to the private practice

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of pathology.

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Just when that will
occur is uncertain.

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I am now administering
substances to others

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to alter or obliterate
their consciousness.

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The break is wonderful.

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Though nothing has educated me
as well as watching my father

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walk the picket line in a strike
that was eventually broken.

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Unquote.

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Was then on top of, without
benefit of elegance,

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almost in over
into transparency.

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I rode all night, my
wetness fogging the path.

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[CLAPPING]

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