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Also the poems
which I read here,

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I don't know if
you notice or not,

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they're from completely
different periods.

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And there are very old poems,
and there are very new poems.

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"A little pony carries
little children for money

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Which their parents
pay the owner,

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But still it's never enough to
eat sweet carrots every day.

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And so for tea tonight,
the little pony

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will be eating dry grass.

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I'm not like a pony.

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Not much like the wee kids.

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Could be I'm a carrot,

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Or that grass which you've
now been chewing on for years.

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There was a time
when I couldn't read

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And so my mom read for me.

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And then it was written
in the book that

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The little pony carries
little children for free."

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[LAUGHS]

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I thought it was
a sad poem, Tyler.

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[LAUGHTER]

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No, no, all is good.

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It's also very
interesting how sometimes

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when-- there is one poem
which I read in Belarusian,

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and then it's quite sad poem,
but when I read it in German,

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German audience started
to laugh at the end.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So yeah.

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Art of translation.

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[LAUGHS]