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[APPLAUSE]

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Well, that was an essay.

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[LAUGHTER]

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How long did it take
you to write that?

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Not very-- three years.

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No, we met in 2006.

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So 20, yeah.

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No, that's not-- the
math is not right.

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Yeah.

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16?

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Yeah.

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Wow, that was impressive.

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OK.

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So, oh, I'm here, OK.

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So thank you.

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I'm still recovering from
that really beautiful essay.

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It's an essay.

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You should expand that somehow.

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No, I'm serious.

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It's very well done.

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Thank you.

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Thanks for coming,
and I just want

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to thank the Poetry
Center, Tyler Meier.

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So many people have
been a part of my visit.

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Diana, of course, Delgado.

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Paola-- oh, my goodness--

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has been emailing me
long before I got here,

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and every detail is perfect.

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And of course,
genius right there.

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Gema, Wren, Claire, and I'm
sure I've forgotten someone,

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but thank you all.

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What a great community
that you have

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to put these types
of things together.

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Just one reading
is so much work,

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and every detail that
I experienced here

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has been really lovely.

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I also want to say, I'm really
sorry to the community here.

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It's something that I
don't even have words for,

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so I'm still trying to
process it along with you.

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I get to leave and go home,
but this is your community.

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You're here, so I'm really
sorry for what's happened here,

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and I hope that poems can be
a part of that process of just

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figuring things
out, and my heart

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goes out to the family
and the community.

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So I'm just going
to read some poems,

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and I have a slide
show, because I

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have been reading online a lot.

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And then I'm going
to-- there's a book

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I'm going to read from that.

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Also has some visual
aspects, so I thought, well,

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maybe just show the slide show.

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So you can-- if you're
a visual person,

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if you can see that far,
you can read along or not.

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But I'm just going to read
from three collections,

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and of which I don't have
any feelings for at all.

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And I'll read from
Obit, and I'm going

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to read from Dear Memory, and
The Trees Witness Everything.

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And I'll just set my timer
just to make sure that I'm not

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reading too short or too long.

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