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Thank you.

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Thank you to everyone for
the great introduction.

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I don't know if I
can live up to that.

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Thank you to the University
of Arizona Poetry Center.

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Who else do I thank?

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Everyone, Akilah, Brandon.

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I'm going to start with--

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you see any of these
that are paper,

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that means it's
in the manuscript,

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and the rest you'll know
they're in the book.

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"I dreamt we were on
this ship made of bone,

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speaking a language
I've never known.

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A retrieved memory of that which
has never happened, happened.

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The mast and prow were all
tusk, and we grafted to it.

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Underneath the deck, Jimmy
said he asked God for grace

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but drew mercy instead.

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But it came out all garbly,
toothless cab driver palsy.

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We had music too, for a while.

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Bone and waveform
imprinted on the night

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with something endless
lurching over us,

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until we landed in the morning."

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