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So I'm going to read
a few new ones now.

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The next one, I wrote this--

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it's newer than the
book, I will say.

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I wrote this a
couple of years ago.

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And it was the summer after Eric
Garner and Michael Brown died.

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And I was thinking about
how this sort of things

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have been happening since
America just has existed.

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And after an event like
this, especially now that

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it's so much in the
public conversation.

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There's a conversation
that inevitably follows

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about what someone could
have done to not be

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shot in the street without
conversation or trial,

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and how they might have
behaved differently

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in order to save themselves.

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And so I wrote this kind of
thinking about the fallacy

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of that kind of conversation.

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"Survival Guide for
Animals Born in Captivity."

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The trick is to
get on the ground

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and fold yourself into a small
soft shape, to be in no way

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sudden, to smile, but
keep your lips tight shut.

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The trick is, don't get smart,
don't dream, don't imagine.

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Pull yourself up,
but not too up.

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Don't forget.

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You don't belong to anyone
or any place at all.

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Don't flinch.

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Don't startle.

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The trick is, you were
never meant to be let in.

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This life is not for you.

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Don't protest.

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Don't complain.

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The trick is, you buck
against your skin.

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The boys look like men.

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And the girls get
exactly what they want.

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Surrender, deserve it.

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The trick is, your body
itself is a violence.

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This is all your fault.

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