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I would like to read
a dialogue, which

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ends with a dramatic dialogue,
which ends with an epiphany.

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And it's called "Dialog
Outside the Lakeside Grocery."

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It's a poem I wrote in Alaska.

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"The grocery had provided him
with boxes of rotten lettuce.

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He was loading them onto
a yellow pick-up truck.

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He was a frail, white man
and wore a plaid woolen

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shirt and frayed dungarees.

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I was sitting in a gray
Chevrolet rent-a-dent.

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'I have eight adult geese and
twenty-six ducks,' he said.

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And I said, 'I'll bet you have
a big management problem.'

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And he said, 'they're
no trouble at all.

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My wife raised two
of them in the house.

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When she goes near their pen,
the geese waddle toward her

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and nibble the lettuce
out of her hand.'

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'I'd never think of
killing them,' he said,

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'they keep me out of the bars.'"

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