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And I'll finish with
this poem, which will be

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the last poem in the project.

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It's called Some Toxin.

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And just thanks again
for having me here.

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I love it here.

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And this is just like being
a very beautiful few days.

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So I am just very grateful.

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Some Toxin.

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This is what we get.

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This is the penance for
extending and extending

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the human lifespan.

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Now, some people have 120 years.

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But those years are
increasingly spent

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being bombarded by adorable
profiles of the oldest people.

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Interviews about what
keeps them ticking.

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The secret is always some
toxin like bacon or vodka.

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And the joke that ensues
is also always the same.

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The chemicals preserved him.

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That is fine.

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But just once I would like
to crumple the metro section

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and find that the key to
long life is rage and trauma.

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That bitterness girds the
organs in equal measure.

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If I could choose to
be born in any era,

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I would opt to predate
these longer lives.

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There's just so much
violence always.

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It's better to have
it visited on you

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back when your attackers
would end up dead much sooner.

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When you would die sooner too.

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All I want is for
someone to understand me.

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But it seems my keenest
friends and I, we've scattered.

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We've struggled for
peace for permanence.

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And somehow in that struggle,
we ventured far from each other.

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And this is what we get.

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This is the penance.

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Back when even the
powerful died younger.

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We would lose one
another and dutifully

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wait to be reunited in heaven.

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We wait for that still.

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But now in the
absence of heaven we

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say someday we'll find each
other year after year on Earth.

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Thanks.

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Thank you.

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We have some Q&A.

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Yes.

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So if you want to take
at the podium again.

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Raise your hand if you
have a question for her.

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