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Thank you, Allie.

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I Just want to thank--

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Allie has done an amazing job
pulling this reading together.

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It's been wonderful
to work with you,

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and I want to welcome Tyler.

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I just-- the few times
I've met you so far

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have just been great.

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I'm really looking forward
to seeing you a lot,

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and I'm really excited
for you being here.

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And thanks to everyone
at the Poetry Center.

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It's such an honor to
be here at this podium.

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I actually am going to read
mostly from newer work tonight,

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and I guess I'm
just going to start.

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This first group of poems
is from a manuscript

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called "I Met a Man."

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How is it I came to
hear this rupture,

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this rake to take me out
of the stutter, to use me

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and the cooler break,
better gone than good?

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How is it the scrabble means
a school of carnal futures,

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where I came to pardon
flamingos, palms, and feet?

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Motors and handrails
fashioned from coast

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care and carry me, a
marvel of drier times,

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a house of magical witness,
but bones and bones in a forest

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of marks and manifest.

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We were jealous mortals,
warier than I imagined,

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a home of hunters.

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If removal has anything to do
with this, I will find out.

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When they walk into a
current, they will know.

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They will not scatter.

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How is it the scrabble
means a colossal rip?

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