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So that's a little
piece of "Orange Alert"

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for you, hopefully,
to tease you and make

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you a little interested in it.

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And I think that I have now
reached my two-poem warning

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time.

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[CHUCKLES] Is that the case?

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OK.

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And so what I'm going to
do is a different thing.

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I'm going to read one poem from
my brand new manuscript that

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still has markings all over it.

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And I have no idea whether it's
interesting or not interesting.

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And then I'm going to--

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I've been trying to
think of this poem

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that I really want to write.

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And I have not been
able to do it properly.

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And so I'm just going to--

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I really want to
think super fresh.

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And I'm going to write
it in front of you.

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I'm going to do my best.

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I'm just going to
do it properly.

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So we'll see how that goes.

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This poem is called
"Texting Ishmael."

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And then the next one is
called "Queer Ishmael,"

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the one that's unwritten.

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[LAUGHTER]

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So-- this is this
"Texting Ishmael."

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It's warning him.

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"In the season of Earth
returning, hardly believing,

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as always, in age, choking
on impossible things, taken

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by the tin plane aloft to
the edited text of Abraham,

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my supersonic spirit
father, nestling

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into me, the scared child
nexting into me, warning me,

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it's not you.

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You are not the son
who is going to.

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I am so cold in my snowsuit,
so delicately taken care of.

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Who even knows who you are
floating up among the Styrofoam

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planets, torn from gravity
and flung up within skyward?

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You, sun bugger.

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Just try and remember all
this when he takes the knife

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to your throat."

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