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I'm going to start with
a love poem, "A Promise."

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My bare feet on a
blanket of thorns

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I taste the tree sap
dew on the grass.

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How generous is that?

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I used to pretend I didn't
exist and now your tongue

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on my clit like an incantation.

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In the before I worshipped
the blood of my own suffering,

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the sound of rivers.

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I mutilated skies
with my fingers.

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Then I found a
faith like windows.

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A piano in a sand
dune, wild crustaceans.

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When you kiss the nape of my
neck, I see your children--

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future tense-- in the distance.

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I see the ashes of
a wedding dress.

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It was a life wounded
by bells the before.

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I sinned against hope.

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Why have I always
loved hoofed creatures?

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I belong to you.

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I belong to this.

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I belong to no one.

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I wanted so much to be seen to
watch galaxies grown to dust

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and rebuilt again.

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These are my oblations, fistfuls
of dirt, your body stirring

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like a divine ram.

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I trace my lips with it.

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He was trash though.

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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