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I'm a bit shorter.

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First off, again, I'm
going to also mirror

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the thank yous of my
previous presenters

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and thank the Poetry
Center for having

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me here, Gail for helping
with Francisco to set this up,

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Cybele for being a wonderful
hostess, and, then, Josh,

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that was good.

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That was good.

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This one is called
"Self-portrait as the Hinge

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Within the Fable."

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And it's for a friend of mine--

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Mathias Svalina.

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"Imagine, in front of
us, they silently pass,

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and they believe
unrelated objects are

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organs to recognize the human.

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And, again, we are no
longer interruptions.

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Imagine, in front of us, the
beginning is not a study,

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and they believe the cicadas
larva reveals narrow secrets

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and we accompany
to form, to shape.

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Imagine, in front of
us, a beautiful garden,

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and they believe color
is the shorelines

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and where we abandon
our to-sudden bodies.

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And, here, we are carriers
of different significance.

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But imagine, in front of us,
each word evolves a lexicon,

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and they believe shape shuts on
a hinge within the voice they

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fable.

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And, here, we slaughter
the spring lambs.

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Imagine starlings circling
in a postcard's blue,

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and they believe oration
is the living thing,

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the end of geometric space.

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And, here, in full sunlight,
we are gifts hoisted

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to the vanishing point."

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