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While waiting for the bus, I
warm the insides of my thighs

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on a wooden bench.

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In summer, you must
be obsessive and just

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have to go swimming to tire
yourself out and realize

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there is no time, only memory.

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The sea can be replaced by a
lake, the lake with a river,

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poplars with plane trees,
the Belarusian town

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with a Swiss village.

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But you're still sitting
on a wooden bench

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thinking of nothing.

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Kids return from the beach.

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They don't yet know
how to read or write.

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They have to carry
everything inside themselves.

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That's how memory grows.

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They fidget, chatter,
argue, tussle.

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The teacher says
something and straight

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away, they take the hand of
whoever's standing next to them.

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That simply, that naturally.

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It doesn't matter who it
is, a friend or enemy.

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They don't exist yet.

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They'll arrive later
with the letters.

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But right now, there
is only here and now,

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and the feel of a hand being
put into yours so as to be there

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in case of danger.

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[APPLAUSE & LAUGHTER]

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I'm not sure.

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Now you will have to
applause after every poem

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so that poems don't
feel offended.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And some poems of
mine are very small.

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So I worry about your palms.

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But thank you.