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Oh, thank you, Diana.

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That was so-- that
was so beautiful.

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I feel a little--

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I'm like, oh, am I going
to live up to that?

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Let's see.

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Let's see what happens.

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So I want to say thank
you to the Poetry Center,

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to Diana for inviting me, to
Paola for keeping me on track

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and being so wonderful.

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And to Tyler, and to
Claire for having me

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visit her class this morning.

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This has just been great.

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It's so nice to be warm.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It's, like, 40 degrees
in Iowa right now.

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Spring is coming, is what
we're telling ourselves.

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So I'm full of tacos.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I'm wearing my uncle's sandals.

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And we'll just--

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I got to get y'all laughing
because the poems are sad.

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[LAUGHS]

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So all right.

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So I'm going to start--

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I'm going to read from--

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I'm going to read some
poems from Bestiary.

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I've been sort of thinking about
how that collection sort of set

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some--

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like, contained seeds for things
that I had been thinking about

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but hadn't really been
able to articulate.

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And then I'll move
into The Renunciations,

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which sort of opens up--

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some of those seeds
start to bloom.

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This is a little sad--

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sad plants.

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And then I thought I would read
some new poems because that'll

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bring us, like, up.

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So I'm going to start my timer
because I enjoy being timely.

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And let's get into it.