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OK, so I'm going to
tell you my secret.

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Being here at the
Poetry Center in Tucson

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is one of my life's
major accomplishments.

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I always thought that
if you got to come here,

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you really had made it, so
thank you so much for having me.

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[APPLAUSE]

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We could have kept
those critters up there.

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I'm very familiar
with those critters.

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We went to Costa Rica
nine times and Ecuador

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with guests three
times and Panama once,

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and then we said, phew,
got to take a break.

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But it was very fun to have
Peggy along because she

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got a book out of it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I hate her.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I hate her in a nice way.

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I'm going to try and set a
little timer here so that I

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don't just go kind of crazy,
because this covers six books.

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I wanted to honor the
kind of reader/listener

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to poetry who would come up
after a poetry reading and say,

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I really love it when I
get to hear the writer read

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the poem because I feel like
I know it in a different way.

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So in this book, I recorded
35 of all of the poems,

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and they all have
little QR codes on them.

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So if you have a smartphone
with a QR code reader,

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you can go to it, and
you can hear the poem.

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If you don't have
a smartphone, you

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can go and sit in front of
your computer with the book

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and go to my website,
and they're all there so

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that you can hear them.

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