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I'll leave you with that
thought for a second.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You can enjoy the
shiver of apprehension

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while I look for the next poem.

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Few more phones poems.

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Does everyone know
who Mayakovsky is?

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Mayakovsky was a Russian
poet and actually wrote

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during the Soviet times.

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And so this poem is
a little bit about--

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you think about poets who write
in countries that don't really

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allow them to say certain things
and how the stakes are much

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higher, and so this poem is a
little bit about what it means

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to write poetry here where
the stakes are allegedly not

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very high but I'm not exactly
sure that that's true.

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About Mayakovsky, I'm older.

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I'm waiting to care less, cheat
on my kids with dead people.

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I'll tell you straight up.

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You don't get to talk
about Mayakovsky.

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Take that skateboard and
go back to the suburbs

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and talk about them.

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They're luminous.

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Big baby, I hope going forward
there will be consequences.

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I hope to thin into the
era when female people like

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me were given hooves
and the strength

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to pull the field over
their stepson like a blanket

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without kitsch and called witch
and turn white stone in a fern

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forest.

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Not having been finished,
I use the implements

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of housework for miracles.

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Grow the darning needle
into a mast, rag into sale,

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and having no
husband or boy child

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to save from the court of
the sea king start in search

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of pale from over mention
recycled some blabla

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and find her seaweed bush,
hot cynic hair, blah, blah.

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How can I protect
her from her body,

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from not writing about me,
from my own lack of trust

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in that trust bears apples?

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By divorcing Mayakovsky.

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Divorce sadness is a
substitute for sex.

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The way to forest male lard,
marbleized tears banging

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hard against my torso,
that whole mystery of.

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Sure you can talk
about him, have him.

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He's more you than he's me now.

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I'm that wide herd of
cows gliding like brides

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to the small green
island in the middle.

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Sometimes I'm full of
water like of spirit

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even as my passenger's drowning.

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And before Christmas,
there was a day or two

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when I was almost someone
who even sometimes reads,

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a person with
interests even if fake.

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In truth, dissing Mayakovsky,
brother, as much as I do now,

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it hurts me.

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Sometimes I'm a stone half
in, half out of water,

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green above and fire beneath,
but really what I'm trying here

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is to care less so I'd
care more like when

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I was bride of
Mayakovsky, like when

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I loved the one who was
the bride of Mayakovsky

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like the time when
to read and write

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was an offense
punishable by death

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and taking it or
leaving it was death.

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And so we did.

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