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Well, my ideas about
Douglas Kearney

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are far from the real deal, but
that is OK because he is here.

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But when we want to have the
root, the leaves, the flower,

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and the fruit all
together, we go

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to the work of Douglas Kearney.

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In his first book Fear, Some, in
a poem called "Alameda Street,"

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he says, we're all just
trying to leave a mark.

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Placing the
statement in relation

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to the work of Black Took
last night, I hear mark

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and I hear mass.

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In his second book,
The Black Automaton,

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in a sequence called
"The Six Cities,"

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he says, yesterday
I woke and believed

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I was a city, a green one.

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And he says, let's go down
to the water, yes, though

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not the water of
what we don't want.

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Yesterday I woke and believed
I was a city, a green one.

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Douglas, you were right.

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Please help me welcome
Douglas Kearney.

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[APPLAUSE]

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