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So there's a
section for writers.

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That meaning molecule
is in that section,

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and I'm going to
read a poem that

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was in The New Yorker called
"Winter Song for One Who

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Suffers."

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Bob and I attend an Episcopal
church in Inverness sometimes,

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and I actually wrote
this in church.

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I'm sure that our priest--

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I told our priest
that I had done that.

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And I told him early, I
identify as an Episcopagan,

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so he knows I'm
already irreverent.

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But the good thing about being
able to just sort of hear

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the message and then
channeling the other stuff is--

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I think that's how
spirituality works best.

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"Winter Song for
One Who Suffers."

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And the reason I wanted to
read this is the place that is

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referred to in here is Masada.

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And I've been
thinking a lot of--

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I worked on a kibbutz in Israel.

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And I spent time in Masada
and sort of crouching there,

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and so it came up.

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"Winter Song for
One Who Suffers."

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The stars stand
up behind the day.

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Unknown dove balances on
its claw at the window.

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A cosmic incident of
darkness has begun,

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and a mild excess of beauty will
be offered to the dead, which

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they will eat.

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On a hill, the wise
man serves the people.

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Your thoughts
splits in half when

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he speaks of the old revolts,
the return of apocalypse,

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motive, and advancement.

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A soul can crouch a long
time while the heart expands

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to reach its edges.

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What is missing past the
glitter of the harvest?

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Friend, you chose to live.

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How?

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You did.

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So many choices, not
just to encrypt it

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behind the mystery of the sun.

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Then the hurt was set
aside, indeterminate chaos

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called in by love.

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That poem was in The New Yorker.

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And when The New Yorker
publishes things,

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you know your
dentist will read it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And so my dentist
commented on that poem.

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Like, I don't
understand your poem,

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but I got that it was
about somebody feeling bad.

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And--

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[LAUGHTER]

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It was written for a person who
survived a suicide encounter.