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Before you get rid
of me, I'm actually

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going to call Keith
here, and we want

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to read-- in between
the two of us,

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we want to read a collaboration.

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The collaboration is
called "Light Travels,"

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and is a variant on the
form of a renga, which

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is for many poets, but
there were only two of us,

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and so we tinkered a
little bit with the rules.

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But you'll notice what happens.

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So come closer to
the microphone.

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OK.

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So "Light Travels."

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"Light Travels."

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Common time I follow you unkept
secret on a basic undersound.

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Common time I follow you unkept
secret on a basic undersound.

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This is the first
part of the rhyme.

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Allow for sequences
of overheard.

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This is the first
part of the rhyme.

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Allow for sequences
of overheard.

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Close the curtains, but
playful elaborations

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of otherwise arrogant variations
keeping the window open.

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Close the curtains, but
playful elaborations

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of otherwise arrogant variations
keeping the window open,

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as it's wrong to shut
one's eyes to dream.

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It's raining while it
is in fact raining.

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As it's wrong to shut
one's eyes to dream.

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It's raining while it
is in fact raining.

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Ears busied with hearing
more than one voice.

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The stream our tears

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Ears busy with hearing
more than one voice.

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The stream our tears
unmirror, or mere error

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as if naturally hard of divided.

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Noise rings in our fears.

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Or mere error as if naturally
hard of divided noise

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rings in our fears.

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Expands danger within our
long thin hands contract

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across quiet gravel.

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Expands danger within our
long thin hands contract

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across quiet gravel.

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Narrow fruit tin cans, loss
of the white of other eyes.

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Narrow fruit tin cans, loss
of the white of other eyes.

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Song out of mind.

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Song out of mind,
or am I tethered?

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So blind a coloring of thought?

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Or am I tethered so blind
a coloring of thought?

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Intrinsically fuzzy,
the sound as pavement

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Intrinsically fuzzy,
the sound as pavement?

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Whereas, tenses are
a later development.

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Whereas, tenses are
a later development.

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Limits of a body open sea--

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the great sea journey.

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Limits of a body open sea,
the great sea journey.

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How different the grammars
of to think or swim.

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How different the grammars
of to think or swim.

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Reminiscence and extinction.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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