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And I'll close with
this poem for my husband

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that came from a first-line
that I really said to him.

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And you have to imagine that
I know I go out on the road

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and do these readings and
have this wonderful time,

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and he sees all these
pictures, and I'm dressed up.

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And then when I
come home, I just

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melt into the writer,
the poet, which

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is a different person
than the performer.

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And so yeah.

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"Love Poem with Apologies
for My Appearance."

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Sometimes, I think you
get the worst of me--

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the much-loved loose
forest-green sweatpants,

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the long bra-less days, hair
knotted and uncivilized,

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a shadowed brow where
the devilish thoughts

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do their hoofed
dance on the brain.

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I'd like to say
this means I love

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you, the stained white cotton
T-shirt, the tears, pistachio

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shells, the mess of
orange peels on my desk.

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But it's different than that.

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I move in this house
with you, the way

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I move in my mind,
unencumbered by beauty's cage.

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I do like I do in the tall
grass, more animal-me than much

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else.

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I'm wrong.

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It is that I love
you, but it's more

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that when you say it back,
lights out, a cold wind

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through curtains, for maybe
the first time in my life,

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I believe it.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]