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So this is another
piece in the new book.

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And it's called "Grave
a Hole as Dream a Hole,"

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a ritual for Brenna Lee.

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"Set a clear quartz crystal in a
shallow bed of salt over night.

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When you wake flush the
salt down the toilet,

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the crystal is now clean
and ready for you."

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I was reading a lot
of science articles

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on piezoelectricity,
the quartz crystal

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technology used in computers.

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And I said, hey, let's just
push technology to poetry

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where it really belongs.

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[LAUGHING]

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"Dig a hole in the backyard.

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Sit by the open hole
with the crystal;

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speak to the crystal in your
right hand, close to your lips,

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telling it you will
bury it over night.

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Tell it you will dig
it up the next morning,

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then take notes and go to bed.

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Wake and write down ANY
DREAMS you had in the night.

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Unearth the crystal, hold
it in your right hand

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and ask, 'what was
it like down there?

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Was it comfortable, please say?

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Was it fearful, please say?'

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Hold the crystal
in your left hand

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and write as fast as you
can WHATEVER comes to mind.

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Next night hold the crystal
in your right hand telling it

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you'll both climb into the
hole of your dreams together.

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Place the crystal
under your pillow.

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Next morning write
down ANY DREAMS

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you had, then ask the crystal
the same questions you

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did after digging it
up out of the backyard.

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ADD ONE QUESTION by asking the
crystal if she had any dreams,

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or if we were
traveling together."

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And you alternate
it for seven nights.

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So this is the resulting poem.

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People always ask, well,
does that really work?

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I'm like, I wrote a poem.

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[LAUGHTER]

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