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The last poem that I will do
tonight is a duet actually.

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This is a duet, I'm going
to do with Johnny Cash, one

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of my favorite
recording artists.

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So at the end of this,
you're going to hear me sing.

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And I apologize in
advance, there's

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a reason I'm a
poet not a singer.

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But in the poem there'll
be the italicized portions,

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are the ones that I will sing
and they are the ones that

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are being sung by Johnny Cash.

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So it comes from his
song Why Me Lord,

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which was actually written
by Kris Kristofferson.

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So thank you, again Diana.

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And thanks, everybody
to coming out.

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I really appreciate it.

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Loved it.

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And this is called
Honky Tonk Sonnet,

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a duet with Johnny Cash.

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Before cancer, I was a country.

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Now I'm a fucking country song.

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Job gone, house
gone, wife diagnosed

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with post-traumatic stress.

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I'm missing more organs
than the looted church.

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Even my dog has
been repossessed.

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Know what I got left, two years.

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The lifespan of an average rat.

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My wife's therapist tells
me I can use this time

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to find out who I really am.

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(SINGING) Lord help me
Jesus, I've wasted it so.

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Help me Jesus, I know what I am.

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Squeak.

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Thanks, everybody.

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[APPLAUSE]

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