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So I'll read-- first of all,
thank you to the Poetry Center

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for having us.

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I'm just excited to make an
evening of art with a friend.

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We have dinner, we swim
in each other's pools,

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we drink each
other's wine, but we

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don't get to be artists
together very often.

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So thank you for that.

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This poem is-- or this book
is written as one long address

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to my daughter.

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Her language appears
almost nowhere in the book,

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except for in this
first poem that's

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made almost entirely
of her language.

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You'll see she's
the better poet.

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And in this one poem, she
anticipates the entire book.

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The poem is called
"Your Instructions."

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"You oare somebody
else who didn't

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know me, ever, pretend that.

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But I was going to
be here next to you,

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and the horse walked
between us really slow.

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But really.

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And then a fire came and
didn't hurt anybody, but only

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the horse forgot about it.

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Then I'll tell you
what the words said.

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The shadow was a plane.

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Pretend that.

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When you take your
face out of the water.

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But then you have to take the
water out of the bowl with you.

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Like that dream, I only
ever had two dreams.

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But then I was at Pump It
Up with all my friends."

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And the parents laugh because
the parents know Pump It Up

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is one of these places
that smells like feet.

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Where you have birthday
parties and the kids--

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it's one big bouncy house place.