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Thank you, Michael.

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Hi, it's great to be here.

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I have thank yous
to make as well.

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I'd like to thank Michael
for that great introduction

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and Laynie for putting
this event together,

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and all of the editors that
made this project possible.

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It's an honor to be
included in the book

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and to be reading with
the poets tonight.

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And I'd also like to
thank my Poetry Center

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family for being here tonight
and being part of this too.

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So I'm going to
read kind of a remix

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from the excerpt that
appears in the book.

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The title of the
manuscript is WOO.

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It's an acronym derived from
a German musical catalog

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phrase that means Werke
ohne Opuszahl It's German.

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I don't know if I'm
saying that right,

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but it means work
without opus number,

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and I am applying that
term to my attempt

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to recover Joseph Smith's 116
pages of the Book of Mormon.

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Joseph Smith was a founder
in the first prophet

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of the Church of Jesus
Christ of Latter Day Saints,

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and when he went to
translate this book,

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the original 116 pages were
lost by one of his patrons

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shortly after they
were created, and he

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had to redo the whole book.

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The pages were never
recovered but lots

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of people tried to find
them, and many people

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tried to forge them
and counterfeit them,

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and most notably a man
named Mark Hoffman, who

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was sentenced to life in
prison for sending bombs

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through the mail and
killing three people

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and severely injuring
himself in order to cover up

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this forgery that he attempted.

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And he sold it to the LDS
church too, by the way.

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Remove the heart as clearly
as hung headache with over.

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Keep these structures
for later study.

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Porous and easily picked up
upon, up upon, Ohm-pa-pa!

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Fake sunflowers which
paint is pollened.

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His pipe-gray
frock was shaped as

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if the tailor had known the
modern form only by hearsay.

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Frocking at the bottom of
the pond, his removed heart.

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Pulmo my pirouettes,
bandy-legged tongue.

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This pike he stalks his prey.

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This he his, small cubit of
rain through pulmonary vein.

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When you fake to
prepare someone?

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how many names over and
over do you scribble him?

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Expatriate, excrement,
and are told cramping.

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Sadness is a normal
emotion created

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by realistic perceptions that
describe a negative event

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involving loss or disappointment
in an undistorted way,

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or crapping the up whole.

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Pillowed them in a
sew? them burned,

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likely if her tortoise shell.

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Hose me down, Hosanna.

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Harris as a rich man could
only bore holes in the box.

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Maybe he hair his
skull by the wife.

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116 draft ref pages.

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He had lookified all, and the
angel, O ye wicked and perverse

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generation.

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God damned the
book to begin with.

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A dot polka, informed by my
reading of the government camp.

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In this page too, the
parody is missing.

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Lean out and nib, them burn eye
wide to the serpent's bitch.

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