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I'm going to read
some poems, now,

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that I call "confessionals."

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The first one has an epigraph
from another pop record.

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"Yes, it's me and I'm in
love again," Fats Domino.

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"You Know Me."

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You know me.

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I'm the one who walks into
the door you're sleeping on,

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wakes you to say, I went
clothed among nudists,

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made a good girl go bad.

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I fall in love every
day, so I clown.

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You can't believe these
are mistakes, but they are.

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I made them years
ago in high school,

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pulling chairs from
under my friends.

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And when I pretended
to trip, hurt myself

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in the middle of
town, jumping up

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to run off, as a crowd gathered,
leaving you the fool's helper.

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You got over it,
but I never did.

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Mistakes wound me
tight as a clock.

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And now, at parties, I run down,
waving my arms, going bong,

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bong at the girls.

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You know me, but
what can you do?

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Yesterday, you found
I wrote "Love me"

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across the seat of your clothes.

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Today, a package arrives
that smells like flowers.