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Is there a reason?

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Hmm?

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A reason?

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No.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Nope.

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Thanks.

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Nah.

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My check-off notebook
has just been destroyed.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[INAUDIBLE]

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This-- this next poem is
entitled "Window On The East."

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And I think, like some of the
earlier ones I was reading

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and a few others that I'll
read before I'm through,

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I mean them very much at
times as what's on the surface

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is a value, and that if
something is visually there,

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that's often what I
intend, like not really

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having any symbolic feeling
for what's behind it,

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but simply very much
taking it on a face value.

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It's entitled
"Window On The East."

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Only the seemliest operation
is fair on a day like today.

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Better to sort different
clothes tomorrow than today.

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And so the piece began
without any calm in sight.

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And the blowing drops of water
blew over the white land.

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In a foggy dream, I am
taking you over land

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to someone important.

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Shake your fist at every
flag along the way or else

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you will fall to the
wayside, like a shovel.

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I heard you were living, and
there were clothes in my dream.

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Your nose stood
lonely in the valley,

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like a widower or a windmill.