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Now I'm going to do a moon
poem, another poem which

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has to do with the moon.

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I don't know how I really got
into all this moon business.

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But this is "The
Voice of the Moon."

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And it's just
loosely-constructed thoughts

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about the moon.

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When I wake in the night,
troubled and thinking

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I heard the cry of a bird, I
go to the window and look out.

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Then I realize, it was
the cry of the moon.

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Years ago, I thought I
heard the voice of mountains

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which spoke only at night.

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Since then, I have listened
many times, and I was mistaken.

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It was the echo of
the voice of the moon.

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When I am unhappy,
the moon reminds me

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that all things change.

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And when I'm happy, it
does the same thing.

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I can believe that men
have walked on the moon.

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Men would do a thing like that.

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But when I am told the moon is a
huge round stone which does not

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change its shape and
has no light of its own,

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I cannot believe it.

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I have heard the
voice of the moon.

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When I become confused
and do not know who I am,

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I listen to the
voice of the moon.

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The moon knows who everyone
is and forgives all of us.

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When the moon is new, it
begins at the beginning

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and tells the same story
straight through to the end.

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It is a long story, but
we listen and believe.

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Who can doubt the
voice of the moon?

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It is important to learn
the habits of the moon.

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Otherwise, one might wait all
night, and it would not appear.

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And when the sun rose,
triumphant, one might despair,

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believing the moon
had been destroyed

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and would never return.

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The sun is like fire.

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It takes what it wants, and
pays no attention to anyone.

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But the moon knows each of us.

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It looks into our eyes and
remembers all our names.

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When we watch the
sun go down, we

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are impressed with its glory.

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When we watch the moon go
down, we want to go with it.

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The sea, the wind,
and the owl try

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to imitate the voice of
the moon, but none succeed.

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Beethoven and Debussy
tried to write its song.

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But compared to the voice
of the moon, one of them

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created the sound of
screen doors slamming,

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and the other the sound of
a pork chop being fried.

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When the moon rises
in the afternoon

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and sets too early to be of any
use, I remember how old I am,

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and that I no longer have
the option of dying young.

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When I sleep and moonlight
comes through the window

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and touches me,
I become a dream.

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No man turns into a wolf
when the moon is full.

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But wolves howl when
the moon is full

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because they hear its voice.

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Some think the moon is silent.

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They are blind.

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[APPLAUSE]

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