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I'm going to read another
poem from the book.

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And if you trust me, it's
not making fun of it.

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It's called Older Women.

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If I can find it quickly.

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Maybe not.

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Oh, how lovely.

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Once when Pasternak
was finally left out

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allowed to go back out
into public in Russia,

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they had a great poetry
gathering for him.

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Thousands of people
in a giant hall.

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And he was reading,
but he was really

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damaged by everything that had
been done by the government

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to him.

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And at one moment,
he accidentally

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bumped in against this
little wire podium ahead.

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And his manuscript
fell on the floor.

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And he clumsily got down.

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And it was such a pity.

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But the minute the paper
fell, he stopped immediately.

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The entire audience recited his
poem until he got his papers

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and put them in position again.

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54.

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No, that's 53.

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I'm a shake that man there.

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That man's got soul.

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It is just seven lines.

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Takes place in
the Greek islands.

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Older Women.

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Each farmer on the
island conceals his hive.

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Each farmer on the
island conceals his hive

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far up on the mountain knowing
it will otherwise be plundered.

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When they die or can no
longer make the hard climb,

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the lost combs year after
year grow heavier with honey.

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And the sweetness has
more and more acutely

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the taste of that wilderness.

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