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[APPLAUSE]

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Oh, TC.

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That was the nicest
introduction ever.

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Yeah.

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You got my bra if
you want it later.

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We'll talk.

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Yeah.

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I don't want it.

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I mean, I'm not using it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I'm deeply honored to be among
this [INAUDIBLE] company.

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I am deeply honored to
have been invited here.

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Incredibly grateful to Laynie
for making this astounding book

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happen.

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Very, very grateful to everyone
involved in the Poetry Center

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for making this
miraculous place continue.

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I'm going to read some
poems from the anthology

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and then I'm going
to go off road a bit.

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I'm going to read a poem--

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at least one poem from
Dark Archive and then some

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poems from the seventh
book that's coming out

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from Otis Editions this June.

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A book about weddings.

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And I'm not going to say too
much in between because I want

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to keep to my time and because
there's an introduction

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stuff in the book and, yeah.

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"I wandered lonely as
a cloud," oh, wait, no.

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That's not mine.

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I'll just say that after
the man-made disaster that

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followed Katrina, there was a
whole lot of looting going on

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and I did some.

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"I wandered networks
like a cloud

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that floated over my couch.

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Remote in one hand
drink in the other

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a crowd on the screen
wounded in rage

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fleeing the tanks
beneath the leaves

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fluttering and
dancing in the trees.

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Continuous as the
stars that shine,

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these wars, these displaced
refugees filmed in never ending

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lines along the margins
and at Bay 10,000

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saw I at a glance hurrying
nowhere like frightened ants.

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The waves beside
them danced but they

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bend weeping over loved bodies.

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A poet could not but be gay far
from such desperate company.

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I gazed and gazed and little
thought what wealth to me

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the show had brought.

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For oft when on my couch I lie
in vacant or in pensive mood.

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They flash upon
that satellite dish,

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which is the bliss of solitude.

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And then my heart
with pleasure fills

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to be so far from
the world's ills.

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Cloud as lonely.

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And verb with the nouns
and my sullen heart

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and the bliss of
the eerily violent.

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Description of memory
as a sort of IED

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in the home
entertainment center.

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Are you in an adjective
or pensive mood?

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When I lie following me, sick
of the mention of flowers--

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the stench of flowers--

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when for the dead.

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What bail out the
show had pronoun verb,

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conjunction verb,
and little thought

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such a company could not be.

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But that the cost of this out-
did the sparkling waves waves

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beside them but they displaced
the local industry tossing

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their heads.

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Storyboard it.

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"Do you see them casting
their heads into the air

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or to each other?"

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Just asking.

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"Do you follow?"

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Shadowed the man describing
a live section of landscape.

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His pretence he'd been
there alone the main thing.

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"Did you see me dreaming
this on your inward eye?"

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If you're reading this.

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Oddly specific number
and weird syntax

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torqued for the rhyme's
sake along the margin

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of a never ending line.

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Anyway continuous as
withered darkened number,

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line about motion and location
as cause, gerund and gerund

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in the breeze, preposition the
noun, preposition the noun,

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verb location and preposition
and nouns when all at once

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I saw a host golden."

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