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Let's read four more poems,
and then take a break.

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This one more is about paranoia.

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It's called "Bad Poems."

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[LAUGHTER]

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And just to say, I
love to teach for sure,

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but some quarters, some
times in the spring,

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you get tired of seeing
other people's poems.

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And this is about that.

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"Bad Poems."

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Bad poems are lying
around in huge jugs.

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I will not drink them.

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I take a piece of beer
and nail it to the sky.

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Driving, I see a nun crossing
the road, and step on the gas

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pedal and get her.

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These bad poems will disguise
themselves as anything.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I wake one morning with
cobwebs between my thighs.

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I rush to the
bathroom, the dentures

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of hundreds of bad poems
piled in the bathtub.

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That night, when I switch
on my lamps, bad poem,

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I'll stone them,
again, and again,

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as if there were a sale on light.

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And just when I can begin
to forget to concentrate,

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the phone goes.

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There's a whole troupe
of giggling bad poems

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on the other end, and they are
calling, of course, collect.

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[LAUGHTER]

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