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As you heard in
the introduction,

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I am the child of
immigrant parents,

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and I thought I would read next
a poem that perhaps addresses

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a very important issue to
me, which is hospitality.

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And hospitality
is important to me

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not only because I'm the
child of immigrant parents

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who I think came to
this country and found

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a tremendous amount
of hospitality here

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and if they were here tonight
would want me to reflect some

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of that hospitality back
to you and welcoming you

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into the home of my poetry,
but also hospitality

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has something in common with
the hospital, a place where

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I spend a lot of my time.

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And I think,
unfortunately, we forget

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that too much in medicine.

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This is a poem
that in some sense

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I think has to do
with hospitality,

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and it also reminds me
to thank my hosts here

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for the tremendously generous
hospitality they've shown me.

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And I think it's perhaps
especially an important moment

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for us to think
about hospitality

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given the debate
around immigration

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that's happening right now.

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And I'm sure it's something
here in Tucson that's

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quite an important matter
of discussion at the moment.

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This is a poem called
"Outside Fayetteville",

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and again, it has
something to do

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with this notion of hospitality.

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Come North to harvest
strawberries and corn.

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I wonder what this family
of four disheveled Mexicans

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must think of us.

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They buy a few things
at a corner store

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outside of which are
parked two pickups, one

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displaying Dixie's stars
and bars inside the cab's

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rear window.

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Never looking up, the little
girl perhaps in school

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has learned already something
that it says about her place.

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Her father, still an
immigrant, regards it

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with a curiosity, a
kind of hopeful sympathy

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that seems to ask what
country have you fled and why?

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A Black man walks along the road
beneath a billboard advertising

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southern pride.

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He's shirtless in the
blazing, midday heat

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and pauses in the shade afforded
by the giant, cutout, rippling

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emblem.

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Sweat is dripping off him like
a baptism, the ritual absolving

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us of what we never
should forget.

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The sky glares white above
the bold face new economy.

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The promise of another better
day when all, God willing,

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shall be judged not by
the color of their skin,

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but by their clout.

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The Black man, slowly
moving onwards, gleams.

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