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I've been working
a lot on ghazals.

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I'm really in the form.

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I like to stay to it,
I like to break it.

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I think part of my experience
being a construction worker

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and electrician, you have
to follow code and form,

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or shit burns down
and falls apart.

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Poems, you can let it
fall apart, and whatever.

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Nobody cares.

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But I'm working
with ghazals lately,

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so I'm going to read
you three of those

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and then some newer stuff
for a new collection

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that I'm working on.

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I think I have a title,
but I'm not sure.

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But I won't share it anyway.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Don't ask, and don't hug.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Hug a 3-foot radius.

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Tercets, three feet.

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[LAUGHTER]

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These ghazals don't have titles.

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Traditionally, ghazals don't.

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They have numbers attributed
to them, but at this point,

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they're sort of arbitrary.

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"Had you bothered to ask,
we would have told you

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how the world ended.

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Morning, a covey
drowned in the pool,

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a simple miscalculation ended.

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'Called me whore.'

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Mom recalls her dad's
words after being

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crowned beauty queen.

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She was cursed, spit on.

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None of that approximates
to her spirit ended.

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A frosted matutunal clearing
of bronze barked ponderosas

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meth cut blow, half
cash, half pawn.

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Sun prisms through pine needles,
siblings, clarity ended.

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Your house is hidden from me.

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On densely forested streets,
I never exited my truck.

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I'm thirsty after manual
labor, want a closed curtain,

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this long-haul tragedy ended.

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Straight-fed cats shit and
piss, litter box the front yard.

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I'd think to guillotine
and stake their heads,

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but they stalk and
hiss as a family.

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My tiny Dracula dreams ended.

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This is me, Bojan, and I'm here.

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Early December,
I've shed the skins

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of kinship and brotherhood,
the snapdragons and cholla

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I planted reminders of
deathly heat ended."

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