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All right, I'll
read two more poems.

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Has anybody ever woken up
and had a cat be dead on them

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before?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Only in Wisconsin.

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This is called-- this isn't
what the poem's about,

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but I'm going to
write that poem soon.

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That happened to
me two weeks ago.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This is called, "Building
of Unseen Cats."

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And this is a true story, too.

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"When I woke up, it was
the middle of the night

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and my building was on fire.

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The hallway was not
filled with smoke.

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And then quickly it was.

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I rescued a few older men from
their bathtubs, a few babies

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from their cribs.

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Outside the air was
filled with hair.

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Everyone, but me, was holding a
plastic cage with a cat in it.

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We weren't supposed to
have cats in my building.

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But there they all were.

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An invisible nation suddenly
un-curtained into a blinding

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and brutal world.

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Everyone looked at me
with a face that said,

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let's never speak of this."

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Let's not look directly at what
is meant to be loved in secret.

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Let's, for example,
imagine the sea is always

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constantly and forever
spilling toward us

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that our screaming building
is something worth escaping."

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That's completely true, except
I didn't save any babies.

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