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[AMBIENT NOISE]

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Sure is hot up here.

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Next poem is called Family Cups.

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It's about eating dinner.

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The first sorrow comes
from the first hope.

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I place two cups
beside each other,

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and all the confused voices
return, with their enthusiasm

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and pain, bickering for
a place at the table.

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These two cups are perishable
as the moments at a family

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dinner, when the
father is attentive,

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the mother is too busy
to polish the silverware.

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The two boys are made of
metal, as they play with toys

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and make a clamor.

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Two cups on the table.

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Wide open flowers eager
for a common life.

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Coffee you can't see through
is a humble substance.

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Over the steam and
the image of a face,

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we sit down or stand up.

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Excusing ourselves,
conversations are interrupted.

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Moreover, something is lacking.

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Someone is too happy stirring
the grounds in a jealous cup.

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A family at dinner
is one long drama,

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needing that frame to be heroic.

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There are other
ways to look at it.

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These two cups-- chipped,
cold pleasures of the mouth--

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fill and are emptied.

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And after dinner, two
boys may gaze out a window

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at stars being born,
filling the heavens' faces,

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where each of them
wanders in his solitude.