May I ask if you too are a poet of Paterson, New Jersey?
Paterson
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Maybe I'll go out. Take a little walk.
Paterson
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So far. So far, yeah.
Paterson
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I just remember how it started. "Water falls from the bright air, "falls like hair, "falling across a young girl's shoulders."
Paterson
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It's all warmed up for you, Donny. All used up's more like it.
Paterson
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I wonder where Bud Abbott was born? Uhh, that I know. Jersey, also. Asbury Park. Uh, 1895, maybe. - You knew that? - Oh, hell, yeah, man. I know a lot of shit about a lot of shit.
Paterson
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Are you, uh, interested in poetry? - Uh, actually, I am, kind of. - Really? - Yeah. - I write poetry. I keep it all in this notebook.
Paterson
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Mm-hm, secret pie. Honey, I'm glad you like it.
Paterson
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- What? - Did you ever hear of the old Italian poet called Pet-ra-rch, is that it? Mm, Petrarch. He perfected the sonnet. Um, I read online that one of his early books of poems was called The Secret Book. Just like yours. I didn't know that. You read that? You just happened upon it online? And also that he wrote all his love poems to a beautiful girl called, ta-dah, Laura. That's true. So you have many things in common with other great and famous poets, you see.
Paterson
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So why don't you recite me something? Just a few little lines, maybe from the love poem. Well I- I can give you a few lines I didn't write. Are they by your hero, Carlo William Carlos? William Carlos Williams. I know, darling. I was teasing.
Paterson
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I'm not sure. Yeah, it's nice there. So remember, you promised to finally make copies of your poems this weekend. I will, as soon as I have some free time. You promised me. This weekend. I will, no, I-I promised.
Paterson
4.7s
The windshield wiper blade starts to squeak.
Paterson
13.8s
Laura, what's all that flour and stuff for? For my cupcakes, remember? Saturday is my turn on the baking booth in the farmer's market. I remembered this morning that, oh, my God, it's the day after tomorrow.
Paterson
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A girl you met? Yeah, no, like a little girl. Like a t... like a ten-year-old girl. Oh! She was on the bus? No, I met her on my way home from work, near the old factories. She was waiting for her mom and her sister and... and I noticed she had a notebook of poems, and she read one to me. From her own secret notebook?
Paterson
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Do you like it there? It's the waterfalls, your favourite place.
Paterson
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And Lou Costello. - "Who's on first?" - Uh, who's on first, what's on second, - I don't know's on third... - Wait, who's on first?
Paterson
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Speaking of secret pie, I wanted to tell you something about your secret notebook.
