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Love loves love.

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And perhaps therein
lies our problem.

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Maybe love has nothing to
do with us as we defined us.

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Maybe love is like strong,
strong, strong running water

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carving a channel
through the world

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through us to another person.

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And just like with
strong running water,

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you'll need an
engineering miracle

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to divert it from
its chosen course.

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It's the love that
loves, not us.

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And love cares nothing for our
bruised feelings, ruined egos,

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and smashed thumbs.

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The love just keeps
rushing to the one

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it loves, to splash it and
cover it over with itself.

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And should the loved
one accidentally drown,

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the love probably
wouldn't notice.

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Love is like that.

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It wants to flow and
keep flowing, move

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and keep moving
out of the imperium

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into our sad, drab,
parched plane of existence.

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It will rage on and on.

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And if you get crushed
by it, well, too bad.

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Just deal.

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Just deal because there's
always a chance for peace.

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Ladies and gentlemen,
a past and present view

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of Richard Siken's Scheherazade
followed by our final chapter

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of book ends.

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[APPLAUSE]

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[MUSIC PLAYING]

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Tell me about the dream where we
pull the bodies out of the lake

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and dress them in
warm clothes again.

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Howard was late, and
no one can sleep.

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The horse is running until they
forget that they are horses.

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It's not like a train where the
routes have to end somewhere.

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It's more like a song
on a policeman's radio.

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And we rolled up the
carpet so we could dance.

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And the days were bright red.

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And every time we kissed,
there was another hour to slice

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into pieces.

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Look at the light
through the window pane.

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That means it's noon.

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That means we're inconsolable.

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Tell me how all this end.

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Love too will ruin us.

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These, our bodies,
possessed by light.

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Tell me we'll never
get used to it.

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[APPLAUSE]

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