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I'm very sweaty right now.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[LAUGHS]

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OK, and this is going to be
my last poem of the night.

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It's called "Number Two,"
and it's not about pooping,

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I promise.

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"It's not bad luck to name your
goldfish after the goldfish

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that has already died, right?

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It seems impossible
on days like this

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to walk to work and not daydream
of ways to make eye contact

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with people wearing sunglasses.

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It usually involves
tripping, or true love.

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My mother never told
me the no glove rule.

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Just hung photographs
of dead relatives

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in the living room, and photos
of herself in my bedroom.

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One day, if I'm lucky
enough to outlive my mother,

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I will pick the photo
of her with the perm.

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She fears this the most.

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That and having a
son ruined by want.

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By the endless
limbs of other sons.

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My mother never told
me about the first boy

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I was named after.

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Just that he died in a desert.

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Just that he lost his way.

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She flushed my old
body down the toilet,

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and took my photo off the wall."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]