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I wonder if anybody wants to
ask a question or something.

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I don't plan these
out, you know.

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Also, if it's not pompous to
say, and I am afraid of it--

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I don't mean in a pompous way.

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If there was somebody here
who knows a poem of mine,

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or even if you don't
know the title,

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they say in the
music business, we

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do requests if there's
something you'd like me to read.

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I'd be happy to do it.

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I'm not assuming that you
say-- oh, yes, Pinksy is,

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but if you want to.

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And also, if you'd like
to chat about anything

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I've read or anything like that.

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"Immortal Longings."

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"Immortal Longings?"

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OK.

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A short poem.

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I suppose if you're
in any business

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as poetry readings
can get to be,

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a thing you see
often that you're

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privileged to see
by the generation

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you're in is an
experience you have,

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is the experience of coming
back down to Earth from high up.

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And this is that.

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"Immortal Longings".

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"Inside the silver body,
slowing as it banks

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through veils of cloud.

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We float separately in
our seats like the cells

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or atoms of one creature, needs
and states of a shuddering God.

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Under him, a thirsty
brilliance pulsing or steady.

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The fixed lights of
the city and the flood

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of car lights coursing
through the grid.

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Delivery, arrival, departure,
whim, entering, and entered,

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touching, and touched.

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Down the lit boulevards
over the bridges

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and the river like
an arm of night--

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book, cigarette, bathroom,
thirst, some of us are asleep.

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We tilt roaring over
the glittering Zodiac

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of intentions."

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