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The next poem is called
"Twilight Sustenance Hiatus"

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which means something
like dinner.

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[CROWD LAUGHING]

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And in the next to last
line of the poem there's

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a word gem which is spelled
G E M, not J I M. G E M.

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The relentless
confetti of dollars.

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I prefer to kiss that silent
chipmunk on the roadside

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while a tiny ocean
of dandelion seeds

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arranges a gray
throne on his ear.

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I have no final vows
to take tonight,

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though your hair might be
floating down the Ohio.

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Chameleons can march around
a small room if they want.

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I could sell gasoline
on the desert,

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though I would miss the grass.

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Or I could even get your
name tattooed gingerly

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across my wrist at dawn.

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There is so little
news fit to print.

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Yesterday, a moth caught fire.

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Today, a lost school of
astronomers came back.

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We only think tomorrow was
called the finished gem.

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Tomorrow was called come on.

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[AUDIENCE APPLAUSE]

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