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OK.

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So the reason there
are images behind you

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is that when I was
working on this long poem.

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This long, crazy,
ridiculous project.

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I was traveling around
with a lot of images to,

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initially, to
instigate the writing.

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And I soon realized
that the images

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were part of the project.

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And so I thought I would just--

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and so there are many,
many images in here

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and I thought I would just have
them behind me as I'm reading

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and so, occasionally, I guess,
I'll just change the images.

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These aren't
necessarily the images

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that are going with the
portions of the poem

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that I'm going to
read, but I thought

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it would be nice to
have a little sense

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of the artifact of the book, the
sort of insulation of the book.

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And I'm going to start--

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so this is about 190 page poem.

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It's in sequences that are
not necessarily linear.

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And when I say, here,
in this very first line,

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I'm writing from New
York about California.

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"It's OK here, but we
don't have any sour grass,

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not so many happy
lizards in the sun,

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seaweed sliding back toward
licking the sea, sand

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flies, sand fleas, jogging men
nasty, naked along the beach,

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and Joakim's oily eucalyptus
combusting up toward heaven.

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I was swimming in the black
water underneath my breath

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and then dragged by the
seaweed vines and belts.

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The water is yellow with
sand and ecology, my friends,

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are being punished by off
duty fathers in tract houses.

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They are not allowed
to leave after dark.

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My family is wily.

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We live in derelict apartments.

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Our government subsidized go
everywhere at night onshore.

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Oil rigs out in the water like
lighted bird palace places.

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In the dream of
dying cephalopods.

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Cuttlefish feathers and things
invented by sound and light

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like the great spangled
fritillary monarch

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and magnitude of scales.

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What lies in inner and
outer margins of such wings

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that came with soft alarm
like heartless light.

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And the numberous
thunder of veins.

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Blue bellies in
strange arrangement

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break their tails and weedy
nooses to grow back new ones.

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Backs bend in the rows
between crop dusted plants.

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The little singing
seeds sting the fingers

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and stain them red, red.

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Eagle shells crumbling
under the eagles weight,

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croaking at Cachuma Lake.

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California did not
hold its shape.

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And the condors
were laid end to end

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to form a replica of California
with photographs of balsa wood

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and glue, which was later
beamed to space from Big Sur.

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This message is in regards
to the gardens of the sea

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graft in the scallops eyes
bright amid its tentacles.

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The fringe rich in fossil
guts of hermaphroditic oysters

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hanging out and kitchen middens.

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A theater acted out on land
masses between bivalves

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motoring self-powered castanets
fluttering and zigzagging

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arcs and hungry bipeds.

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This heroic fantasy is set
in an ominous landscape.

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A dark world that mirrors our
watery arms and legs but not

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our muscular hearts.

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Have I been shaped
like an animal, God?

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Or have I been good?

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Everything I know
occurred in California.

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And everything I know later.

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Everything I know
of California is

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shaped like a piece of
cardboard and smells

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like the black
plastic pitch that

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stretches between
Bakersfield and apricots.

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Blue and green, and
the penny arcade,

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my dream is just like that.

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1,000 miles long and deep into
the otter ice water cliffs.

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Almonds Fresno when I was
nearly blonde and knees

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straight as an arrow.

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And my name was Dylan in
the grass, blue grass.

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When my homestead read, Mary of
the Villas of the Vocables of

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Conches.

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Jalama ice plant
in Spanish mosses.

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At its Eastern
boundaries of the ear,

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without answer key or
blue fig, California

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at its goldenest gold, brim
fullest bright of citron sun

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when the blazing
pollen falls all, all.

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California blooms, pornographic,
hysterical flowers,

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loyal daughters
of the revolution,

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horses winning up state street
stamped the independence

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of California into the tarmac.

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Chumash dancers with
fancy feet but no state.

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In One-Eyed Jacks, Marlon
Brando and Karl Malden

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will escape on steaming ponies
in the beautiful Mexican girl.

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And roar into that sleepy
village just north of Salinas

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and it's beautiful low Chinese
dwarf cypress in a shady Glen.

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And the villages of
Chinese hoteliers.

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Fisher people with gray
eyes, railroad coolies

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who bent their backs and did
not break in filmy vista vision.

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Salinas rises from its valley
like a huge dusty mutt mottled

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with lettuce and
chemicals, not of trash

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in the state's hallways.

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I want to make you dream this
just as you made me dream you

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in a beginning of bundles and
other beginnings slash endings.

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Get up, you scum sucking
pig, growls Brando

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and plays a wild card."

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You guys should see that
movie, if you haven't.

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It's really great.

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That's what he says in my
mind, but he doesn't really

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say that in the
movie, it turns out.

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He says something like it.

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I think it's the only
movie that Brando directed.

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I guess, Kubrick
started it, and then

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Brando took over, which is
a really strange combination

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already.

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My father loved the movie
because there's this close

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up of Brando's chest--

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I think it's somebody's
hairy chest with a watermelon

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seed in the hair.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I mean, that's a make or
break scene for a movie.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Sidewinders and
autumn siroccos.

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Winos tell stories in the
back with their hands.

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The son comes home
from a long trip.

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The wino opens the
car trunk, and there

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is the girlfriend, dead.

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And the father gets in
the car and he drives.

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He buys a shovel and he drives.

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He buries her deep in the
desert and he never says where.

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This, he does not
say to the son,

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but maybe he buries her
somewhere near Soda Lake

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or Cadiz under the scurry and
rasp of things in the desert.

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Ah, haha, California's
opening the refrigerator door.

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What's in there?

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Avocado?

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Alfalfa sprouts?

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And we're laughing our
heads off in Goleta

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because we just smoked a lot of
pot and don't have any theories

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but obliques on LA.

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Evil, smog choked city to the
South like black witchcraft

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practiced next door.

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A rotten pot, olla
podrida, of those city's

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historically lousy with devils.

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The politician
stands in sunlight.

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Vice, like an oil swimming
at the surface of his body.

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All of human history is lying
in the grass, in nature,

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there is nothing we
can do to escape it.

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So just relax,
sybarite, symbiont.

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And let this melt from my hand
to yours like tar serpiginous

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on the beach used to
cock gaps in knowing.

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Of course I am the messenger
of belief and truth.

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Address me as gracious
and benign animal.

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Ho, not so?

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Made for war?

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Which is as much as to
say the heavens of flame

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where all knowledge
is contained.

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Whence I might almost,
entirely, perceive myself

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in shadows cast on earth.

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Biotic community, riparian
woodland, asked Virgil,

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should we pillage woods?

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Thick culverts of game
point to newfound streams.

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Sylvan hare streak, setter angle
wing, dipper or water ouzel.

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Yellow breasted chat,
belted kingfisher,

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dusky footed wood rat.

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On the eve of that dark
bright shelf, me, my name,

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licked my throat with dust
of ourselves, shelves.

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Put a few jelly jars there.

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What colors?

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What sin or sorrow?

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What butter?

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Big butt and hilarious
laughter bright sifting

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powder to be seen in each.

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Wind tunnel.

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Water tunnel.

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Tunnel of branches,
leaves, and sky.

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I grew up in a--

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just outside of Santa Barbara
in Goleta and a little town

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called Isla Vista, that
was a college town.

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And so I grew up around a lot
of 19 and 20 and 21-year-olds

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and I thought that everybody in
the world was about that age.

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And I thought that they all
had keg parties all the time.

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I was a waitress in a white
dress, an avocado goddess

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in the land of Phocis,
Queen of the drought

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in the kingdom of Prop 13.

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I set forth.

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It was four blocks to the beach.

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What did I see there?

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A kegger with lots of young
men preparing to drink.

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Dream, all the wild beaches
had been built upon.

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Fancy hotels with
eyeless edges--

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fancy hotels with eyeless
edgeless pools and all rotting

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piers ripped out.

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They built hundreds of hotels a
night on Haskell's wild shores

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for Tom Hanks' weekends.

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To the south, my beaches
have been given over

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to oil drilling
companies, cargo wharves,

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factory built
blackness by the sea,

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squatting buildings black
smoke up to the edge

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of the water, concrete
haunches jumbled and built

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blackness right into the water.

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A huge city lurking
in absence of light,

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lies under the waves as
they say it-- excuse me--

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a huge city lurking in absence
of light, lies under the waves

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as they roll, roll evil.

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I found one patch left.

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Lucent creatures drift along
the coral under a clean sea,

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an electrically purple
elegant nudibranch

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with neon orange fringe.

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Hopkins rosy nudibranch.

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Red crabs turning with the water
in an easy metropolis of sea.

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But so did lens lie at the
southern right and I know,

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soon, it will edge
up in the night

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with the will of the people and
engulf this last bright animal

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ditch.

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In the dream I was
hunting for dinner,

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razorback clams, any
soft bodied animal that

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oozes at the edges of symmetry.

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Anything delicious,
wearable, lovely."

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I'll just tell you that
some of this next section

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draws from John Steinbeck's
and Ed Ricketts,

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Log from the Sea of Cortez,
which is an amazing book.

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And probably lots of you
have read Cannery Row,

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and the character, Doc, is
based on Ed Ricketts, who

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is a dear friend of
Steinbeck's, and who

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was a model for many of
Steinbeck's characters,

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not just Doc.

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And he was one of
the first people--

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biologists to track
the animals that

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live right in that intertidal
zone that are adaptable to both

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being submerged and
being dried out when

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the waves-- when
the tide goes out.

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And they took this
incredible trip from Monterey

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down to the Sea of Cortez,
collecting animals.

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It's, kind of, horrible
too because a lot of it

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is about we collected 346 blah,
blah, blah and we threw them

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in alcohol and--

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there's this
incredible description

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of this bonito losing its
color as it's feeding on shore.

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And it's something--
I was just recently

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at a museum of Natural
History in France

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and seeing how these
taxidermists have

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to put color back into animals.

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And sometimes they overdo it.

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And so if you've ever been
to a Natural History Museum

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and you see the stork
whose legs are too red or--

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but it's, kind of, just
thinking about what color

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animals, ourselves
included, have when living

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and what colors
we have when dead.

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It was something-- it's
something I think about.

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Let's see, maybe I'll--

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this.

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"Removing the heart of the
turtle to a jar of saltwater.

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It will beat when
prodded 24 hours later.

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The mermaid's purse is
a sand shark unhatched.

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And now the tiny fish
is pickled in alcohol.

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A turtle's flesh will
continue to respond even

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when you place the white
cubes of meat in a pot.

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Moving pictures of the color and
patterns change in the bonito

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during death.

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As they beat their tails against
the deck colors pulse and fade,

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pulse and fade.

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And then, they are dead.

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Animals have one color when they
are alive, another when dead.

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This smooth blue water runs
out of time and a, kind of,

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dream sits in it.

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The playing porpoises
do not play opposites.

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Turtles, the great schools of
fish under the ruffled waters.

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All the thing was
alive when you saw it.

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The teeming surface
of the watery earth.

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Barnacle and hydroid
riding the turtles back.

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Pelagic rock
lobsters in his gut.

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A crab inhabits his ass.

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The water is stuffed with
living plankton through which

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the big fish swim.

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Moving pictures of langostino
littering the waters currents

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and soon put them in
a white porcelain pan.

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Now,

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The film is immersed in
alcohol which promptly

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removed their brilliant color.

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The heat of a great
furnace, said Cortez.

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Calida Fornax, not the
denomination of New Mexico.

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Apaches land, but
of shorespeople,

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sxa'min, a small
sea cave and arch,

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sexy cala-y-fornix rooted in
primitive magic's names will

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stick or fall away.

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A list of disappearances.

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What disappeared?

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Has disappeared?

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Is disappearing?

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Will disappear?

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I can't tell for they
are disappearing.

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It is happening around us
in forests, on highways.

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What is appearing?

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This remains to be
named and seen."

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