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Thank you.

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I'm going to have trouble
living up to that.

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Thanks to the Poetry
Center for everything.

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And thanks very much for
a particular and engaged

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introduction.

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And it's a real pleasure to
read with Bhanu and Mónica.

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It's wonderful company.

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I'm going to read a section of
what I hope will be a new book.

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It's one piece and it's
called "Mean Free Path."

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And in physics about which
I don't know very much

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the mean free path of a
particle is the average distance

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that a particle
travels before it

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collides with another particle.

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And the poems are full of little
collisions and recombinations

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and fragmentation
and hesitation.

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So there's a kind of
entropy or the poem's kind

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of breakup under the emotional
pressures of the other.

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So I think you'll hear some of
those formal processes taking

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place.

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Am I being too loud?

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So this is called
"Mean Free Path."

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I finished the
reading and looked up,

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changed in the familiar
ways now for a quiet place

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to begin the forgetting.

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The little delays
between sensations,

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the audible absence of rain
take the place of objects.

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I have some questions
but they can wait.

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Waiting is the answer
I was looking for.

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Any subject will do
so long as it recedes.

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Hearing the echo of your
own blood in the shell

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but picturing the ocean
is what I meant by.

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You startled me.

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I thought you were sleeping
in the traditional sense.

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I like looking at anything
under glass, especially Glass.

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You called me like
overheard dreams.

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I'm writing this one as a
woman comfortable with failure.

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I promise I will never let
the predicate withered.

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If you were uncomfortable
seeing this as portraiture

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close your eyes.

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No, you startled.

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Identical cities, how sad.

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Buy up the run.

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The unsigned copies
are more valuable.

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I have read your essay
about the new closure.

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My favorite parts I cannot
follow, surface effects.

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We moved to Canada
without our knowledge.

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If it reciprocates the
gaze how is it pornography?

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Definitions crossed with
stars the old closure,

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which reminds me wave to
the cameras from the--

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the pillars are glass
that's all you need to know.

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Lines have been cut and
replaced with their opposites.

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Did I say that out loud?

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A beautiful question.

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Barbara is dead.

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Until I was 17 I
thought windmills

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turned from the fireworks
to watch their reflection

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in the tower made wind,
brushed metal apples

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green to the touch.

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Oh please, for an
astounding irrelevance

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structured like a language.

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But I like the old
music, the audible kind

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we made love to in the crawl
space without our knowledge.

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Robert is dead.

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Take my voice, I don't need it.

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Take my face, I have others.

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Pathos whistles through the
typos, parentheses slam shut.

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I'm writing this one
with my eyes closed

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listening to the absence of.

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Surface effects patterns
of disappearance.

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I kind of lost it back
there in the trees

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screaming about the
complexity of intention.

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But, but nothing.

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Come to bed.

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Reference is a woman
comfortable with failure.

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The surface is dead.

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Wave to the cameras from
the towers built to sway.

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I promised I would never.

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Tell me whose hand
is this, a beautiful

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question her sources again.

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Unhinged in a manner of speaking
crossed with stars and rain

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that can be paused so
we know we're dreaming

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and their feet like horses
in the city how sad.

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Maybe, no maybes.

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Take a position.

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Don't call it
night vision green.

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Think of the children running
the sisters through the lawn,

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where were we.

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If seeing this as portraiture
makes you uncomfortable,

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wake up.

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Wake up, it's time to
begin the forgetting.

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Direct local statements
wither under glass

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a little book for
Ari built to sway.

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I admire the use of felt
theory like swimming in a storm

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but object to anti
representational bias

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in an era of, you're not
listening, I'm sorry.

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I was thinking how the
beauty of your singing

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really describes the hope
whose death it announces.

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Wave

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in an unconscious effort to
unify my voice I swallowed gum.

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In all my weeks in the airport
over a missed connection

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the color of money is
night vision green.

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Ari removes the bobby pins.

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I remove the punctuation.

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Our freezer is empty
save for vodka and film.

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Leave the beautiful
questions unanswered.

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There are six pages
left of our youth

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and I would rather
swallow my tongue

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than waste them on description.

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A cry goes up for plain
language in identical cities.

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Sikorsky appears in my
dream selling knives.

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Each exhibit is a
failed futurity,

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a star survived
by its own light.

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Glass amperes confused
bees, is that pornography?

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Yes.

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But.

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But nothing.

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Come to reference a mood
of undress equal to fascism

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becomes obligatory
in identical cities.

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Did I say that already?

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Did I say the stranglehold of
perspective must be shaken off?

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A lot of the tradition
broadcast with a little delay

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takes the place of
experience like portraits

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reciprocating gazes.

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Zukofsky appears in my
dreams offering his face.

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Each of us must ask
ourself why am I clapping.

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The content is announced
through disappearance.

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Like fireworks, wave
after wave of information

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breaks over us
without our knowledge.

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If I give you my denim
will you simulate distress.

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To lay everything waste
in the name of renewal,

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haven't we tried that before?

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Yes, but, but not in Canada.

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The vanguard succumbs to a sense
of its own importance as easily

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as swan succumbed to the flu.

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I'm writing on this one with my
non-dominant hand in the crawl

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space under the war.

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I can feel an axis
snapping in my skull

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and soon I will lose
the power to select

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while retaining the power too.

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All these flowers look the
same to me, night vision green.

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There is nothing
to do in the desert

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but read Penthouse
and lift weights.

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My blood is negative that's
all you need to know.

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Sophisticated weaponry marries
the traditional pleasures

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of perspective to the new
materiality of point and click.

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I'm writing this one as a
woman comfortable with leading

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a prisoner on a leash.

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Combined was the word I
was looking for back there

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in the trees.

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My blood is Scandinavian modern.

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I kind of lost it
but enough about me.

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To return with a difference,
haven't we tried that before?

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Yes.

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But, but not from the air.

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Unique flakes form
indistinguishable drifts

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in a process we call all these
words look the same to me

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fascism arranged the
flowers by their price.

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Then we're despairing.

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Then the voice of Nina Simone.

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Parentheses open on a new
gender crossed with stars.

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Ari removes the bobby pins.

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Night falls.

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There is no such thing as non
sequitur when you're in love.

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Let those who object to the
pathos swallow their tongues.

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My numb rebarbative
people put down

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your blocks and your big gulps.

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We have birthmarks to earn.

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Around 1945, the question
becomes sleepyhead.

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Since the world is ending
may I eat the candy necklace

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off your body?

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Turn on the record over,
turn the pillow over,

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it has a cooler side.

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Like a vein on the wing of
a locust, the sea of hope

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disclosed by her voice.

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It cannot save us but it
can remind us survival is

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a butcher's goal.

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All hands to the pathos.

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Let the credits

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bend the plastic stick and break
the interior to the reaction

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amidst light but not heat,
the tragedy of dialectics.

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Sand sized particles of
revolutionary possibility

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fall constantly
without our knowledge.

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The capitol lawns
sparkle with poison.

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Since the world is ending
why not let the children

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touch the paintings.

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The voice of Nina Simone
contains its own negation

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like a pearl.

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As brand names drift
towards the generic,

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we drift towards fascism.

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A life in common
replaced with its image.

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The predicates are glass.

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I blew them, I'm sorry.

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Sorrier than I can say
with such a tiny phone.

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You're breaking
up, no damn I held

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the hand of a complete
stranger during takeoff

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unaware it was my own laying
bare the ideological function

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of numbness, felt silence,
a sudden inability

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to swallow the dream in which
the face is Velcro describing

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the film in the language
of disaster, the disaster

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in not finishing
sentences removing

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the suicide from the speed dial
failing to recognize yourself

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in the photo coming home to find
a circle of concerned family

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and friends.

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It's more of an artist's
colony than a hospital.

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It's more of a vitamin than
an antipsychotic, collective

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despair expressed
in I statements.

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The dream in which the skin
is stone washed denim running

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your hand through the hair
of an imaginary friend

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rising from bed, dressing
returning calls all

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without waking the
sudden suspicion,

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the teeth in your mouth are not
your own let alone the words.

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She handed me a book I had
read it before, dismissed it,

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but now in the dark I
heard the little delays.

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If you would speak of love,
stutter like rain, like Robert

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be, be unashamed.

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Let those who object
to them but that's

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familiar rage isn't a
system it is a gesture whose

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power derives from its failure.

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A child attempting to gather us
into her glitter flecked arms.

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It isn't a culture of fear.

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When a people pats itself
on the back with a numb hand

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it isn't a culture at all.

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Take a position,
cut it off, leave

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the rings, the
president that you

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promised you wouldn't mention.

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I saw myself in the
mirrored lenses,

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you cannot kill a metonym
of his bodyguards.

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I'm moving to Canada
when I wake up.

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You mean if.

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No concept of clockwise rotation
can be described on the surface

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continuously so this
might take a while.

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Bring a book.

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Have you tried breaking it into
triangles or changing hands?

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No hand in this.

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Fascia, a tangent bundle can
we unfold what we can't figure?

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Not without making cuts.

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Orient me for the night
is coming amphichiral,

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manifold, and looped.

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We have no reason to hope.

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But what's reason?

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What's reason got to do with it?

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Accent not duration,
cancellation not punctuation

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and that's love.

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Why not speak of it as we
are drawn up into the rising

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toroidal fireball.

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This column of powdery light
is made possible by Boeing,

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but what, and here's where
people start disappearing,

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made Boeing possible.

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If you could see the tip of
the vector it would appear

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to be moving in a circle as
it approached you, references

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a slow wave transporting
energy through empty media

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you can't rush it.

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The displaced pathos returns
with a vengeance and painters

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pull grids apart in grief.

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Only a mass or only a
butcher can unmake sense.

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The rest of us have axes
to grind into glass.

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By complex I mean my
attention is drawn downward

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to the bottom of the cloud.

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It hurts me when you listen too
closely smothering reference.

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Carefully decanted
left to breathe.

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That's criticism.

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The subject rises to
the surface, bursts.

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All light paths from the object
to the image are reversible

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and that hurts, to know
it didn't have to be.

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I mean, don't get me
wrong I enjoy killing

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birds were these little
ships that flew and sang.

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There are some cool pics online.

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Funny strange not ha ha funny,
how the black canvas was

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realistic, a bird's eye
view of their disappearance,

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wave after wave of deja vu.

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After the storm, the sky
turns night vision green,

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the color of murder.

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I can hear the soldiers
marching in my pillow.

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Even in Canada

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her literature is
irrelevant to October, Anna

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of all the Russias, whose
body was an ideal October that

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has yet to obtain a face.

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October approached
asymptotically by tanks.

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The leaves turn night vision.

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Anna, do you see how
the sand sized particles

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of the true October rise from
the asphalt like fireflies

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whose bodies are night vision.

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Neither do I, the
irrelevant I, the I of all.

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It will develop recursively or
not at all, the new closure.

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In lieu of fixed outlines
modulating color.

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If concentrated light
strikes the leaf,

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part is reflected through the
droplet producing a white glow

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around the genre.

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It's like the
whispering gallery.

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The fighter pilot
sees his shadow

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on the cloud crossed
with the Wailing Wall.

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We can't distinguish rounds
of ammunition from applause.

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Speak plainly.

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Keep your hands on the table.

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Do not flee into procedure.

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Do not wait for a
surpassing disaster

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to look your brother in
the eye and speak of love.

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Make no mistake,
the disjunction,

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the disjunction stays.

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Do not hesitate to cut the
most beautiful line in the name

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of form, the bread of words.

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Look for me at genre's edge.

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I'm going there on foot.

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I dyed what's her face's
hair with lime Kool-Aid so

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when I read "Bezhin
Meadow" I lent her aspect

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to the green haired spirit.

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There is a girl trapped
in every man made lake.

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She will pull you
into your reflection.

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Stephen tells me
what's her face, who

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used to sleepwalk into
the snow, piss her name

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and glide back to
bed without waking,

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was thrown into this poem
through a windshield.

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Once she gathered
me into her glitter

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flecked I don't care
if aspect is archaic.

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Once she walked into
the sliding door

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a plane announced
the disappearance

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you made it this far
without mentioning Topeka.

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Glass in her hair.

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Patterns of I will throw
my voice like a clay pot

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keep her ashes there.

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I don't care if love.

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I don't deny the influence but
it's less a relation father

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to son than a relation
of moon to tide.

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Plus my teachers are mainly
particles bombarding gold foil

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or driving rain.

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It's the motion
not the material,

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not the nouns but
the little delays.

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A gender crossed, a genre
crossed on foot by Marvin Gaye.

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Filicide.

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Strong misreadings
arise on the surface.

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Burst.

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It didn't have to be.

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If I rise from
table, if I wander

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discalced through
the sparkling lawns,

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if I'm lost in Juarez and Topeka
if it's winter in August when

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the prodromata, when the
birds cite the past in all

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its moments, there is no need
for examples, police, doctors.

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Let me walk to the
edge of the genre

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and look out into nothing.

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I will return.

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The fit will return me in
time for coffee and oranges.

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Authority derived from giving
it away is how I define aura.

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Like Zukofsky's paper
flowers picked from Kapital

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for Celia's hair, priceless.

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The high reflective
ceilings allow

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us to receive our own applause.

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When an audience takes
a bow that's fascism.

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A looped encore.

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Surface effects.

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The auditorium is a standing
wave, a sentimented roar.

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The entire system
weighs about two pounds.

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A small bird governs the atria.

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You dream the donor's dreams.

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The donor's breath
breaks your lines

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across their prepositions
halved and polished to display

00:17:35.440 --> 00:17:37.330 align:middle line:90%
the crystal back formations.

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Go in fear of
abstraction, but go.

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Be gone by morning.

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There is nothing.

00:17:42.940 --> 00:17:44.200 align:middle line:90%
You don't need a shell.

00:17:44.200 --> 00:17:45.550 align:middle line:90%
Just cup your hand.

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Nothing for you
here but repetition.

00:17:48.550 --> 00:17:49.390 align:middle line:90%
Thank you.

00:17:49.390 --> 00:17:51.240 align:middle line:90%
[APPLAUSE]

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