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So the first one
I'm going to read

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is titled Out West,
which I wrote coming back

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from my grandma's funeral,
and we were driving through--

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we were driving through
Utah, Nevada and Utah,

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and I just like completely
lost my sense of scale,

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and I imagine somebody will
have some experience with this.

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So this is titled, Out West.

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Refuse the old means
of measurement.

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Rely instead on the
thrumming wilderness of self.

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Listen, you have been
lost for some time.

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Taking comfort and being
home to any wandering thing.

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Sheep and brown cows
graze your heart pocket.

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Antelope and bison lap the
great lake of your eye,

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and in your ear the
black bear winters.

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You name your dawn
shadow 'rabbit.'

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You name your dusk
shadow 'spur.'

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And the river that cuts
you as it runs west?

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You name it 'persistence.'

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Look, if you could bear
sobriety you'd be sober.

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If you could bear being a
person you would no longer

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be an iron bluff.

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Do not wander.

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We are all apportioned a
certain measure of stillness.

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