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Well, I'll just maybe
read one or two more.

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And then I'll turn
it over to Kim.

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And thank you all again.

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It's been such a pleasure.

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This is a riff I did on
a poem by César Vallejo--

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"poem after a poem by césar
vallejo w/ a nod to donald

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justice."

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"I will die in the
desert on a sunny day

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because I was born in the
islands on a rainy one.

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I will die in the desert.

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This cannot be helped.

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Maybe on a Friday,
as today is a Friday,

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at the beginning
of a cold spring.

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It will be a Friday because
today, Friday, stoned

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and alone, I drove
into the West Desert

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and grieved my own passing.

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And never so much
as today do I feel,

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in the middle of
a two-lane road,

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empty for a thousand
years in both directions.

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Jay Hopler is dead.

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His life was as easy
as it got, and he

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had the scars to prove it.

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These are the witnesses--

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all the Fridays and the rains
and the sun and the road

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and every grain of
sand in that desert."

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