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Thanks, Gabriel.

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When I found out
yesterday from Tommy

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that you were
introducing me, I thought

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that couldn't be more perfect.

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It's not just that
you're my former student,

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but that you have
also found this

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to be the same safe space that
have cultivated all our voices.

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Thank you.

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Short person here.

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Can you guys hear me?

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OK.

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Thank you all for
coming out here.

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It's crazy thinking that
six years ago I came here

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and, surprise, surprise,
I'm one of those two people

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who have not left.

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[LAUGHTER]

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OK, so this first
poem I'm going to read

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takes a line in response to
one of Alice Notley's poems

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from the Descent of Alette.

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It goes, "Can you
find your father?

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Yours is probably an owl.

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Mine is probably an owl.

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I imagine freedoms granted
from regime changes and failed

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negotiations.

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One.

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The fact that I was
below Unter den Linden

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didn't compel me to make the
lewd man pay for his resolve.

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I would learn Godowsky,
manipulative whim, on my own.

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Two.

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When my eight-year-old self
improvised on the piano,

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I asked, how come I can do that?

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Inside me a person plays
the piano perfectly.

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Do you remember your
father, asked the lewd man

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before disappearing
into the U-Bahn.

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Think mine is in another room.

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It's an entire house on
the summer fire escape

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or a musical intersection.

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I put on a spook
extremophile dress and gossip

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about how every anaerobe
color is lonely or expansive.

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The most pleasing neurosis
would be erotic civic hope."

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