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So I've got a couple
of short poems here.

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The next poem I read is one
of my only Tucson poems.

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So I thought I would
read that tonight.

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And it was written shortly
after my son was born.

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And as with many
parents, I think

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the first few weeks can be--

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not always, but they can be
extremely difficult time.

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And they were for us.

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And this poem came out of that.

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For a while the
first few poems I

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wrote after my son was born
all involved a screaming baby.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is called, "The Nights."

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"The screamer sleeps, inside.

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The desert's wide awake:
the mouse, the rattlesnake.

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I've come out here to
hide, behind our house,

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below the riddled sky, afraid
of what our bodies made.

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To the south: Mexico...

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These are the nights men run.

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Guaymas before midday,
a beach-town life...

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I play it out.

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Such things are done.

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The Rincons seem like a
stain into the paling east.

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The borders are policed.

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The wail, nearby, of a train."

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