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Thank you.

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It's so wonderful to be
here for so many reasons.

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University of Arizona Press
is the home of my books,

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and they're amazing,
so I'm glad to be here.

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And I'm also glad to be here
with three of my favorite souls

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in the world, J. Michael,
Roberto, and Francisco,

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so I'm really glad to be here.

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Thanks.

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I'm going to read--

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I have a book--

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Arizona is bringing
out my next book.

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It's called Milk and Filth,
and I'm going to read from that

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and then I'm going to
read a few new poems.

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The Milk and Filth
is, I guess, an homage

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to second wave feminism.

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I guess that's enough context.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This poem is called
"Radicalization."

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An agitator holds her sign
up asking, do you feel equal?

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So you and your
sisters deride her,

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because she's so public about
injustice, so second wave.

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Your sisters gather around
her with scorn and sully

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her earnest nature.

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It's, thanks but no thanks.

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I can vote, walk into the
pharmacy for my Plan B,

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and wear a chain wallet.

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One sister throws an
apple into the melee,

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and the unfazed
agitator bites it.

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Her straight block teeth
break the fruit apart,

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which shocks your sisters.

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But when they've
abandoned their mockery

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for the lure of a
choice bazaar, earrings,

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UGG boots, removable tramp
stamps, the Sex and the City

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marathon, you're hot
for the agitator.

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The crowd clears and
you kiss her sweaty neck

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and use her agitating
sign as a bed.

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You scrawl her agitating
words onto your belly

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and stand naked against
her muscle memory, not just

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the cause, the impulse, the
result, but the buzz of lack.

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You'd like to
consume it right out

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of her, that humming
electric dissatisfaction.

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Then you like to put
it out of your body

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in the form of a Louise
Bourgeois sculpture,

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milky, blobbing.

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Love the star fuckery of
doing it with her and to her.

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Then the sticky pulling
apart, the eternal production

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of polyurethane eggs
wrapped in yarn.

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