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Now, I finish with a
poem called, "Flute."

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"Flute," thank you
for being here.

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Enjoyed it a lot.

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This is from last spring.

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It's a refrain.

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You can't really see it,
but at the end of the poem

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the word "flute"
takes over the page,

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and it should really
dribble off the page,

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but I can't render
that with my voice.

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I mention Hopkins.

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That's Gerard Manley.

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"Flute."

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"I feel heavy, and the
thought of flute lightens

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me, flute, flute.

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The smell has a throat.

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The fox drinks far
away, flute, flute.

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Hot summer nights the
man across the street,

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plays from the
roof, flute, flute.

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Last night on TV, I saw a
baby being born and cried,

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flute, flute,
flute, flute, flute.

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That woman pushed.

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The head came out just
right, flute, flute.

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She stroked her husband
saying to him, Alan,

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I'm so happy, flute, flute.

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Hopkins, the Jesuit,
said, I am so happy,

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three times as he
died, flute, flute.

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On my sometimes
too heavy street,

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I think of losing the
body, flute, flute.

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These are my births for
now, and now, again, I

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am lighter, flute, flute,
flute, flute, flute, flute."

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I can't do it.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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