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It's the same?

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It's the same?

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I'll read a little
piece from Shapeshift.

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Is this better?

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Bread dipped in
gunpowder is to be

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fed to the first graders in that
moment when their hair is cut

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and a ruler snapped,
and there are whispers

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metamorphose into a new
chrysalis of thought.

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A new wing emerging from
the lips of these Indians,

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who are no longer
passing thoughts

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in the paragraphs of an
oil-soaked dictionary

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but hooves carved
into talons, hilltops

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from which light is transformed
into the laughter of crickets.

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And I want to remain here
where he doesn't drink my lips

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or remove the cocoons
my eyes have become.

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Rattles erupt on
the north horizon.

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The harvester unties
her shoelaces.

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I see the sun, eclipse it
with my outstretched palm,

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and dig away my reddening skin.

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"It wasn't like this
before," I tell myself.

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When I am thrown into the
fluorescent room where

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the sink hunches
like an eagle claw,

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it stops, pulls the wind
to a breathing space

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the size of a
mouse's lung, and I

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am drowning in the air
around my feet again.

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And antelope are gnawing
into the walls of the city.

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And those Indians are
braiding yucca roots

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into the skin of
their scalps again.

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And I want to fall beside
them, count their fingers--

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five hundred and five
rows of spilled blood

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marking the trail home.

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The trail will not
be followed again,

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because there in the
ears of the Indians

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are echoes of the hissing belt
and the laughter of thieves

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measuring the
length of the treaty

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with the teeth of the
jury that is seduced

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by the glimmers of gold.

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It's ash, all of it!

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[APPLAUSE]

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[LAUGHTER]

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