[APPLAUSE]
Well, let's see how low this can go.
Let's see how low y'all can go.
Isn't my life partner so cute and entertaining?
Sorry that I'm me.
Less cute, less entertaining, sorry, as real.
But I'm going to start with a Tommy Pico poem,
just ease into the whole Morgan Parker experience.
[LAUGHTER]
OK?
[LAUGHTER]
This is my favorite part of Tommy's book Nature
Poem, which I love.
I love--
I love you.
I love all the books.
I blurbed I think I--
was it Junk that are blurred?
So I approve.
Please buy it.
[LAUGHTER]
I can't read a nature poem because that conversation
happens in the whole of South American peoples
and the American Museum of Natural History,
between two white ladies in buttery shawls
as they pass a display case of traditional garb
from one tribe or another.
It doesn't really matter to anyone.
And that word natural in natural history, hangs.
Also history, also peoples.
Hangs as in frames.
It's horrible how their culture was destroyed.
As if in some reckless storm.
But thank god, we were able to save some of these artifacts.
History is so important.
Will you look at this needlework?
I could cry.
Look I'm sure you really do want to wear those dreamcatcher
earrings.
They're beautiful.
I'm sure you don't mean any harm.
I'm sure you don't really think about us at all.
I'm sure you don't understand the concept of off limits.
But what if by not wearing a headdress in your music video,
or changing your damn mascot, and perhaps adding
0.5% of personal annoyance to your life for the 20 minutes
it lasts, the 103 young people who
tried to kill themselves on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation
over the past four months wanted to live 50% more.
I don't want to be seen generally.
I'm a natural introvert.
And I def don't want to be seen by white ladies
in buttery shawls.
But I will literally die if I don't scream.