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Oh, man, so this book is
not a complete downer.

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I mean there's a lot of downer
stuff, but there's some--

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I hope some lightening
of the mood.

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One such moment is a poem called
"Discarded Memoir Titles".

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So it became clear to
me that I was never

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going to write a memoir because
I can't do prose very well.

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So I decided I would
just make a poem out

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of all the possible
titles that I

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was thinking about for
my memoir, so I did that.

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And in the book, you'll
see it takes a weird form.

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So the poem itself
are the titles here.

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And they all have this subtitle
the "Jay Hopler Story".

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After you hear a line, just kind
of imagine that trailing off.

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"Discarded Memoir Titles", 1.

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Oh, carnival of miracles,
Oh, karmic bizarre.

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And all the robot
girlies say beat.

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Lost on the milk road of
the moon upon the water.

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Too much quiet,
not enough peace.

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So much will outlive
me, why list it?

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Musical conversations
with the dead.

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The lesser chub is
the greater fish.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[AUDIO OUT] it was dead.

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In the Museum of
Natural Selection.

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The emperor of firecrackers.

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Still life with hash pipe
and half-peeled lemon.

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Hotel disaster.

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Hypochondriac, my ass!

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Between a rock and a hard case.

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How small the heart of
a largemouthed bass.

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Fretful prophet of
the electric bass.

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A worm with the
sun in its belly.

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Exit pursued by a butterfly.

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The sun with a
worm in its belly.

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File under fire, trials by.

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2, the constant elegist, the
Jay Hopler Story with John le

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Carré.

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[LAUGHTER]

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