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Stop it.

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You make me uncomfortable.

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All right.

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I'm going to do one
or two more things

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and then we will go
to the Q&A section.

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Now that we've gone through
the T&A. (EXCITEDLY)

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[LAUGHTER]

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We're going to go to the Q&A.

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So I'm going to do
three more things.

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Because I want to this is
a poem called, "Well Hung."

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Well hung means having
a large phallus.

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[CLAPPING]

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's also the
quality control stamp

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that goes after a lynching.

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This actually brings
me to a question

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that I had had about performing
certain kinds of poems.

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Ones in which you look at it
and you're like, what the hell?

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Where do I start?

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Now typically when I
performed poems like this

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from my last book,
The Black Automaton,

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which what we're going to
do before we do "Well Hung,"

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those poems look like
this, for example.

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They make it bigger.

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Let me fluff it.

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Here we go.

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All right.

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So I'm going to
do that a second.

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I just want to show
you the other one too.

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I'm going to do--

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Oh yeah, that one's over here.

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All right.

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Let's see.

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I think-- There we are.

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We're going to do these two
poems from The Black Automaton.

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Now what I was saying
was that typically when

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I've done these poems I
have members of the audience

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actually dictate how
these poems will be read.

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In other words, they
sequence the order

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of how they would read it and
then I perform that sequence.

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Even when I was working on
these in my little old room

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by myself, I never
read them aloud

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because I wanted to avoid
creating a master reading.

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A right way to read it.

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So I've never
performed one of these

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without being guided
by audience members.

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And so that is where we
are going to go today.

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These are readings brought
to us by Danielle and Renee.

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So I'm going to start off
with The Black Automaton,

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"In De Despair Ub Existence
# Three, How Can I Be Down?"

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And it samples a few
different people.

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It samples "Speech" from the hip
hop group Arrested Development.

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It samples Ultramagnetic
MC's, "By Way of the Roots."

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It samples "Poison" by Bell Biv
DeVoe, a really important song.

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And then at the bottom
it samples again,

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"Speech" from
Arrested Development.

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So I'm just going to look at
this again just real quick so I

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don't fuck up in the middle.

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All right.

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The Black Automaton, "In De
Despair Ub Existence # Three."

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"Another (SINGING) place.

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Another man.

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Another place.

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Another land.

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E.g. (SPEAKING) Can't get
grown sands busted chew cherry.

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It bees W.E.B. dubious.

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The simple back and forth.

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The same, oh, it
bees W.E.B dubious.

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Another (SINGING) place.

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Another land.

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All that hurts.

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Let it understand.

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And (SPEAKING) then
all the crows circling.

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It axes the first question.

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The simple back and forth.

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The same, oh, it is round.

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It likes it or not.

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It's round whether
it likes it or not.

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It knows the world.

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Another (SINGING) place.

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Another land.

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It (SPEAKING) won't
just look away.

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Look away.

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Hurts (SPEAKING ROBOTICALLY) it.

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All that hurts it.

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Let it understand.

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Just (SPEAKING) clocking.

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To look away and look
away is to be a ninny.

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To look is to be a masochist.

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Keeping one eye open.

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Then all the crows circling.

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And then all the crows circling.

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And then all the crows circling.

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And then all the
crows circling."

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The Black Automaton, (EXCITEDLY)
"In De Despair Ub Existence

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Number Three, How
Can I Be Down?"

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All right.

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