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That's just the old Rousseau
pieces in this poem, I bet.

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I'll read you a couple
of other short poems.

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One of them over there,
another one over here.

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This one is called the
Music of Driftwood,

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and I don't know quite what it
means, but it's about poetry.

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The music of driftwood?

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Yes, it comes from
deep water and floats

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with the wind in the foam,
and is beached and bleached.

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Lying still for a
movement or two,

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then floating farther to enter
the mind's many chambers,

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as Wagner perhaps or
Bach, or whatever.

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It changes, but
always I like it.

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I think, I hope
without arrogance, it

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is the music of poetry.

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True to the temper and pulse of
each flute-like, bassoon-like

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image that pads or flutters
within in the midnight recesses,

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yet true to its own
poor selfless self,

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bare, bearing,
from way, way over

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yonder its theme
of old blossomings.

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Temples in orchards,
rites, supplications, art.

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