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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you all very much.

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And thank you so
much, Alison Deming.

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It's an honor to be introduced--

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simply to be introduced
by Alison Deming,

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but then to have a poet I
admire of that quality actually

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say things that I hope are
true, that mixing knowledge

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of the street and knowledge
of books, mixing my own

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lower middle class
origins, the fact

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that I'm a professor, all of it.

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And in that image, you probably
did largely make it up,

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but that image of a walk
where you keep getting

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attracted by things on the
way that you can't predict,

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and eventually getting
to where you want to get,

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it is like to work
with the great jazz

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musicians I have worked with.

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So I'm yakking a bit because
I'm overwhelmed and hesitate

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to start reading to you.