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Today, they are all
flying slow and low,

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Casting shadows longer
than their own lives.

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The green lacewing hurries.

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She still has work to do.

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The young bumblebee
fastens his belt

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Ready for take-off.

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I alone sit motionless
in hat and gloves,

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End of September,

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And feel like an alien
on this garden planet.

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The other question, which
you don't ask but I answer--

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[LAUGHTER]

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What about politics or
poetry and political poetry?

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Or, for example,
do I write poems

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which has to do with what
happened to me and the situation

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in Belarus or something?

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And this poem I wrote when
I just couldn't go back,

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and it was the first
month, September.

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Everything was so,
yeah, hard to perceive,

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hard to understand what
to do, where to go.

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And it doesn't look
like a political poem

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or a poem about the--

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I don't know-- hard
situation, but this

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is how poetry works for me.

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