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All right.

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I'll read another poem.

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See, I have a set
list, but I just--

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I'm not going to listen to it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"The Story."

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"My mother opens
my bedroom door,

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and gags on the
overwhelming scent of urine.

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Like something died, she says
in the story that follows me

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to every family gathering.

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A hound locked on the
scent of a wandering child.

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It was a phase my mother
said lasted until I was 14,

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or around the time I started
doing my own laundry.

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She goes on to tell them about
the piles of wet clothes hidden

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in the back of my closet.

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Like something died again,
we all know the story.

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A boy gets touched, and
then ruins the upholstery.

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Or a boy rubs himself in
the back of the school bus,

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until his jeans
become a shade darker.

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I never told my
mother I was molested.

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Never told her that story.

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The one where a boy finds
the tongue 10 years later,

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fermenting in a jar.

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I never told her how
someone reached inside me,

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and turned on all the faucets."

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