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I'm going to close
with two poems.

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One is a new one.

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It's one of the few poems
that I consider political.

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I was bothered at the point--
this was the point where we were

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turning away Haitian refugees.

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And, of course, I can't
help but remind everyone

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of the Vietnamese refugees, of
the refugees from World War II,

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and how sometimes I think that
we have an attitude problem.

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So I always love an
attitude problem.

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So I decided to take it on.

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The poem is called "Refugees."

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"There are too many
shoes in the world.

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Let's burn them.

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There are too many oceans.

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Let's not accept one more and
let water fend for itself.

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There are too many matches
and horses and odometers.

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Birds have begun to
fly over in boats.

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And whatever our hearts
are full of, they are full.

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Go back.

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We have bread,
terraces, and blue soap.

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We have enough starlets.

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Our brooms, our populace,
and our roses need to die.

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There is too much
cupped and unfolded.

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There are too many shoes.

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There are too many
paintings of trees.

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Deer have begun to
surround New Hampshire.

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And wherever our
wine spills, there's

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someone to throw salt. We have
too many satellites and salons

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and pennies.

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We have eyes in front and
don't need them in back.

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We have six million pianos.

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And let windows find
their own faces.

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There is too much
through them at night.

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There are too many
desires in the world.

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Let's pass a law.

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Too many black ones and brown
ones, tight ones, and pink.

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We have too much velvet.

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There are too many pomegranates.

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Go home."

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