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That's why I don't get
invited to Catholic colleges.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I actually have been.

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I actually have been invited to
a Catholic college quite often

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in Minnesota.

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But there's always some sort
of controversy when I come.

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I had a nun ask me after
I did a reading once.

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There was a question-and-answer
period afterwards.

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And the nun, who turned out
to be a mean nun I found out.

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A friend of mine
turned to me and said

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he had studied with her.

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He had gone to the school
and studied with her.

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And he said, ah, don't
pay any attention to her,

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she's a mean nun.

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But her only question
was to me was,

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are you afraid of the cross?

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I was like-- in a
question and answer

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period, that was her question.

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And I said, hell, yeah.

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This is my attempt
at a political poem.

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And Jesus also makes
an appearance in this,

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for some reason.

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Jesus is making a lot of
appearances in politics

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these days.

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"Imagination."

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"The ground's not a bad place to
live for a while, a few years.

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Not face down, exactly,
not face up either.

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Hovering, say, over the dirt.

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The Earth is dirt,
our body's dirt.

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And you floating there
a hand's width above me

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just until things blow over.

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That war, say, Jesus, did we
really just make it all up?"

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