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All right.

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I'll close with this poem.

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It's called "Evening
Beneath Dust."

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"I'm blowing smoke, ill
thoughts toward the shadows

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of old bungalows
built before dusk

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became an ember rose
of ozone and smog.

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The highway is smashed with
too many glasses for me

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to drive east to my sister,
who stays with every light

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on so that no uncertainty of
the darkness can reach her.

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She sleeps days.

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The house's high
ceilings incubate her

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while the Sun guards the
windows, doors, and closets,

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forces into the open
a jealous deliverer

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whose only opportunity to effect
comes on nights with no Moon.

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The prayers my sister recites
calm, though hardly quell,

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like wafers and wine.

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Thoughts of saviors
from foreign lands,

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or boundaries like imagined
barriers bisecting an ocean,

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summon the idea
of God or creator.

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My sister calls her mother
and father once to ask

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if the ch'íídis of our Diné
history can be translated

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into demons listed
in the Goetia.

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They know that any girl
from love's demise.

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So when I call her
finally, after hours

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walking avenues of reposed
guilt, it's not her

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I hear, but voicemail.

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I say this.

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'Old Abraham, the sheep of
subservience denied God Isaac,

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or was it God denied God?

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Abe's blade made me domestic.

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He skinned the bush-got
ibex, offered it burnt.

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His boy ignited the
sticks of the altar

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pyre he assembled, hungered
at what wasn't his to eat.

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Isaac spent 200 years
at the pitch end

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of wells, digging water.

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His name, laughter fits
when nothing funny was done.

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Let's assume angels tickled him.

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Why consider drugs,
bipolarity, or a curse?

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He'd been defined already.'

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It's lonely in the thirst of the
Sun and the drowning of a well.

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The silhouettes and
the houses around you

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will dance on occasion.

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It might not be a two-step
or waltz, but a bad lamp,

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some faulty wiring, a violent
flicker that gets you worried.

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Not knowing [NON-ENGLISH] is
an unwanted voltage, a flood,

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a current engulfing you."

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Thank you guys so much.