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Anyone here know what
Shatila stands for?

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You might find that as--

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in Michigan there's
a sweet factory

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called Shatila Sweet Factory.

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Shatila is a refugee camp--
a Palestinian refugee

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camp-- in Lebanon.

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It's just outside old Beirut,
and there was a huge--

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there was a famous massacre
that happened there, in 1983.

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We leave the details out.

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So speaking of this body,
and the man-woman thing,

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I'll read this text--

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So I just wanted
to say something.

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So in the longer poems in Textu,
each section is 160 characters.

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So I was maintaining
a sense of prosody,

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but you can also call OCD.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Dear sister, a September
is had in Shatila."

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So the massacre
happened in September,

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since it seems to be an
international holy month.

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"Dear sister, a September
is had in Shatila.

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A 14-year-old girl wrote,
my love, I'm like a rose--

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some days, I decorate
weddings, other days, graves.

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She is not alone.

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Dear sister, life
is a conspiracy.

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As zygote, you were subaltern.

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You couldn't speak, or you
spoke when no one was listening,

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were spoken for when silent--

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a wedding.

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Dear sister, in Phoenix,
an American woman

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has been saving Afghan women.

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And her French husband
who helped in the kitchen

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said, the Congolese
fathom only violence.

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