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Hi, everybody.

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Hi, what's up?

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I'm Tommy.

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Let's see how tall
we can get this.

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So the first thing I'm going to
do is I'm going to read a poem

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of Morgan's.

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I'm going to read a short
excerpt from my book

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Junk that is right over there.

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You can get it this evening
and have me sign it please.

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And then I'm going to read you
an excerpt from a book called

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Feed that is coming out
at this time next year.

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That's that preview shit.

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You are the second
audience in the known world

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to have gotten this excerpt.

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I just had a meeting with
my publisher this afternoon.

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It's like my
favorite book so far.

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So we'll see how it goes.

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I have a feeling you're
going to like it, though.

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Hi, what's up?

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OK.

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Here we go.

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So this is a poem by Morgan
Parker, the love of my life.

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From this book there are more
beautiful things than Beyonce,

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also to my right.

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And it is the titular poem.

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I love that word.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I could just stand here
and laugh for 20 minutes.

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[INAUDIBLE]

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is called "Please Wait"
or "There Are More Beautiful

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Things Than Beyonce."

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Please wait to record Love
Jones at 8:48 Saturday on BET

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until your life is no
longer defined by Beyonce.

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Ants crawling over
falling leaves

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and little pieces of dog shit.

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Empty chicken boxes glow in
with the remembrance of grease.

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There are more beautiful
things than Beyonce,

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self-awareness, leftover
mascara in clumps,

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recognizing a pattern.

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This is for all the grown
women out there whose countries

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hate them and
their brothers, who

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carry knives in their
purses down the street.

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Maybe they will not
get out of life.

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Maybe they'll turn
into air or news--

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[SIGHS]

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--or brown flower petals.

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There are more beautiful
things than Beyonce,

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lavender, education, becoming
other people, the fucking sky.

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It's so overused because
no one's sure of it,

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how it floats with
flagrant privilege

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and feels it could
ask any question.

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Every day its ego gets bigger
and you let that happen.

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But one day your shit will
be unbelievably together.

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One day you'll care a whole lot.

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And you'll always take vitamins
and exercise without bragging

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and words will fit
perfectly in your mouth

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like an olive soaked in gin.

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The glory of an olive soaked in
gin and its smooth smallness.

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A glass will snow fall onto your
cheeks, the top of your lip.

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The sidewalks will be
saying the same, evidenced,

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combing your records.

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You'll see the
past and think, OK,

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once I was a different
kind of person.

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