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| 0:00.0 | Wait, you're listening? |
| 0:01.1 | Okay. |
| 0:02.4 | All right. |
| 0:03.6 | Okay. |
| 0:05.0 | All right. |
| 0:06.4 | You're listening to Radio Lab. |
| 0:09.4 | Radio Lab. |
| 0:10.0 | Shorts! |
| 0:11.3 | From W-N-Y-C. |
| 0:14.7 | See? |
| 0:15.0 | Yes. |
| 0:16.5 | And NPR. |
| 0:19.8 | 13. |
| 0:22.0 | Gone. Gone. |
| 0:28.9 | This is a reading from Heaven's Coast by Mark Doty, |
| 0:30.8 | who's one of, in my opinion anyway, |
| 0:32.7 | one of the great living poets in America. |
| 0:34.0 | This, however, is not poetry. |
| 0:34.7 | This is prose. |
| 0:39.8 | It's Mark's description of the death of his long-time partner, Wally. |
| 0:48.5 | Thursday night, January 20th, Wally's smiling. I get the Polaroid and asked him to show me that smile once again, and he does, the last time he'll be able to. Friday, January 21st, the last words I will write for a month. |
| 0:58.6 | Times the engine that decks the world in its beautiful clothes, and not one, not one, is exempt. |
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