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The poet.

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The quotes are from a
friend of mine who was--

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she and I always liked
to joke with each other.

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The poet.

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Are you really a poet?

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She asked.

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Sure, crickets always
talk like that.

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A couple of nights after
I listened for a long time

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to a couple reminding themselves
about 10 million years ago

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in some cave in Asia.

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It was a long, long time ago.

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They rattled membranes together
and sang all night long.

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I didn't know you
were a poet, she said.

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Later on there was another
cave, a woman was moaning

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and later she was laughing not
very far from a glaziers edge.

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To the South were
swaying grasses,

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brightly colored birds,
warm oceans, hot deserts,

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and strange gods who
demanded nothing.

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She asked me if
I liked crickets.

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I said Yeah, but
not cockroaches.

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I wondered out
loud if cockroaches

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are any relation
to crickets and she

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said maybe but not too close.

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I want to look it up
somewhere, but 10 million years

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is a hell of a long time
to really clear it up.

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How long you've been a cricket?

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