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I'm trying to not use so
much plastic on the road,

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and so I keep using
this everywhere.

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I think people think it's
full of tequila or something.

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It's not, yet.

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So now I'm going to read eight
new poems from a book that's

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coming out in August called
The Carrying, and I'm excited.

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It's going to be my first
hardcover, my fifth book.

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It'll also be out in audiobook
in full, in its entirety.

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And it'll also be available
e-book and paperback,

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eventually.

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Yeah, it's nerve wracking
to put a new poetry

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book into the world.

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And you'd think by
book number five,

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you would just be used
to it, but you never are.

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So I'll read eight
poems from here.

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The first I'll begin
is a prose poem.

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Sacred Objects.

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I'm driving to Tennessee.

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Before I get there, I stop
at the Kentucky State line

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to fuel up and pee.

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The dog's in the car
and the weather's fine.

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As I pump the gas, a man
in his black Ford f-150

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yells out his window
something about my body.

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I actually can't
remember what it was,

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nice tits, nice ass,
something common that I've

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been hearing my whole life.

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Except sometimes
it's not nice ass,

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it's big ass, or something
a bit more cruel.

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I pretend not to hear him.

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I pretend my sunglasses
hide my whole body.

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Right then, a man
with black hair

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who could be an uncle of mine
pulls by in his truck and nods.

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He's towing a trailer
that's painted gray

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with white letters.

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The letters read
"sacred objects."

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I imagine a trailer full of
Las Virgenes de Guadalupe, all

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wobbly from their travels,
concrete or marble or wood,

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all of these female
statues hidden together

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in this secret shadowed place on
their way to find a place where

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they'll be safe,
even worshipped,

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or at the very least,
allowed to live in the light.

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