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And two more short poems.

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This one is the
first poem that I

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wrote after we moved
from Tucson to Arkansas

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and acquired another set
of anxieties in addition

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to the small child.

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It turned out that we moved
into a house in Arkansas that

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was infested with
brown recluse spiders--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--also called
fiddleback spiders,

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which are very poisonous
spiders, apparently.

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And that caused me a
considerable amount of anxiety.

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So this has got this
child anxiety, new baby,

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plus deadly infestation
of insects, or arachnids.

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Plus, a little bit of
national political anger here.

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It's called "Homeland Security."

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[LAUGHTER]

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Before-- let's see, the
only thing, two things.

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Diazepam is the generic
name for Valium.

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[LAUGHTER]

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And fipronil is a
common anti-poison.

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"Homeland Security."

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The 4:00 AM cries of my son
worm through the double foam

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of earplugs and diazepam.

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The smoke alarm's
green eye glows.

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Beneath the cries,
the squirm and bristle

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of the night's catch of
fiddlebacks on the glue

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traps guarding our bed.

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Necrotic music
scored in my head.

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And all night
columns of ants have

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tramped through the
ruins of my sleep bearing

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the fipronil I left for
them home to their queen.

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Patriot ants out of republics
endlessly perishing.

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If I can hold out long
enough maybe my wife will go.

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If she waits long
enough, maybe they'll

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go back down on his own.

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