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Thank you all so much for coming
and staying and everything.

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I'm disappointed, too, but
I'm really excited to be here.

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It's great.

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I brought this,
which I'm tempted

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to read from the entire
time, but I'm not going to.

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I think I do want to read a poem
for Robert Creeley, though--

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well, not for him, by him--

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first and then one
for him because I just

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can't think of a poet that has
influenced or inspired me more

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as you say about this fair
and utterly important verse

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that he's written as I'm
sure you all know already.

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So I'm going to read
a poem, "The Rain"

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by Creeley, that I've
just always loved so much.

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So "The Rain."

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"All night, the sound
had come back again,

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and again falls this
quiet, persistent rain.

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What am I to myself
that must be remembered,

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insisted upon so often?

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Is it that never the ease, even
the hardness, of rain falling

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will have for me something other
than this, something not so

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insistent.

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Am I to be locked in
this final uneasiness?

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Love, if you love
me, lie next to me.

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Be for me like rain,
the getting out

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of the tiredness, the
fatuousness, the semi-lust

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of intentional indifference.

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Be wet with a decent happiness."

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I love that poem.

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