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Tonight I'd like to read
some poems that were recently

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published in
Collections, and then

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go on to a few more pieces that
will be included in the book

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that Lewis mentioned,
Chihuahua, which

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will be published next month.

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Can you hear me all
right in the back?

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Yeah?

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OK.

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Good.

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Let me start with a true story.

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And it's called The Werewolf.

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Circling, I draw you closer to
yourself, my heart-belly cheap.

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So that you sit-in the hogan,
pistol pointed at the door.

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Freezing in your sweat, while
I walk around, walk around.

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Beating my arms, making snarls
and gestures to the stars

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you can only imagine
through the walls.

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Until you fall through
your arms as any man would.

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Until you wake and
look out hungry,

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lung struck by the snow.

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See my clean footprints?

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Razors on the toes, with none
leading in and none meting out.

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And beyond the low
mountains, which

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also dig their claws
in, lower their heads,

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and begin to crawl.

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