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"Trollope."

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It's the only COVID
poem I ever wrote.

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"Trollope."

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"What a sad day full of black,
blue, red and yellow umbrellas.

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Everyone in the world,
whatever their disposition,

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seemed to be crying at once.

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While I hit upon
reading Trollope and so

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remained a week
among the grouse.

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That was my disposition.

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Sometimes I would get up and
move about, tea, Kleenex,

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cigarette, a phone call.

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But always, I returned to
my life among the grouse.

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Can you forgive me,
I was about to ask,

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but like some rose
that never opened.

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Because I wish I were a quiet,
voiceless plant too full

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of love and joy to move
about and utter words.

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Besides, there are tears which
happen in a day that it would

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take a lifetime to explain."

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[APPLAUSE]

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