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[APPLAUSE]

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Barbara Cully, Sarah
Kortemeier, and Sean Rys.

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Thank you, everyone, for
your sweet, sweet, sweetness,

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and the time to laugh,
and the stories.

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At the beginning of Steve's
book, The Permission to Speak,

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he has a dedication
that I've always loved.

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He says, "For Gail and for my
friends, Spot and the Grommet,

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Mark and Bobby, Tina Feingold,
John Augustus Murphy, and Boyer

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Rickel.

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Friends are so enclosed
within my reasoning,

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I am occasionally them."

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And I love the adventure
of, from today forward,

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being occasionally Steve.

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And I've got a lot
more information

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to go on now, in my
imitation of him.

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The three of us
have picked poems

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from different stages of
Steve's life and work,

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united by one theme, the
desire, even the compulsion

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and the need, to
put life into words.

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