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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
So the poetry of experience, a poetry rooted in experience and a poetry which dwells on themes from experience
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{SPEAKER name="Horace "Spoons" Williams"}
[[CUTS IN]] Right.
{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
is also a poetry learned in experience.
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It's not a poetry of schools. It's not a poetry of the great halls.
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It's not a poetry of books. Rather, it's a poetry of the house, the street, the club, the party.
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Spoons, maybe, the most appropriate way to close out the workshop is to open up the floor for questions and we'll see if there are any out there, and then...
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depending on how much time we have after that we'll try another poem. Okay?
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Are there any questions for "Spoons" Williams from anyone in the audience?
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{SPEAKER name="Horace "Spoons" Williams"}
Feel free to ask any questions that you may have in mind, and uh, alright man.
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{SPEAKER name="Interviewer"}
The question was she noted that the poems--the poems dwell--uh, the poems that we've heard so far today dwell around themes which are painful,
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and she wondered whether or not poems were ever used to celebrate joy?
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{SPEAKER name="Horace "Spoons" Williams"}
Listen ma'am, I think there is only about two ways that I can answer that,
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and one would be a negative way and one the other one would be a positive.
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You see, there are times once you get away from anything, I don't care what it is,
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if you have a pain in your stomach, you can think about how bad it hurt,
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and then, once you're relieved of that pain, you can think about what a blessing it is to be relieved of it.
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So this coincide with the same thing, if this is the proper word to use.
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What I'm trying to state is this: it's a pleasure to have left. You understand?
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And then it's a greater pleasure to talk about what you had to leave from.