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I'd like to conclude
my reading by reading

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you a half a dozen
poems, or five poems,

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or whatever from
this new volume.

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I was saying, I was in
class for a short time.

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And I was saying how one never
entirely ceases to be a doctor.

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If only because one
goes home and finds

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one's children have the
measles or whatever.

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Sometimes it's on parents.

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Here's a short poem
called, A Winter Visit.

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"Now she's 90.

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I walk to the local park, where
too cold, the usual peacocks

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do not screech, and they
bring the lights come on

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before it's dark.

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Dare I affirm to her,
so aged and so frail,

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that from one pale
dot of peacock's sperm

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spring forth all the
colors of a peacock's tail?

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I do.

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But she like the sibyl
says, 'I would die.'

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Then complains, 'This
winter I'm half dead, son.'

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And because it's
true, I want to cry.

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Yet must not, although
only nothing keeps.

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For I inhabit a white coat,
not a black, even here,

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and am not qualified to weep.

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So I speak of small
approximate things.

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Of how I saw in the park
four flamingos standing,

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one legged on ice,
heads beneath wings."

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