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So you see the
struggles, it was hard.

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Took me a while, nearly
about 20 or 30 more

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of those before that.

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So I think it took
that whole time to get.

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And so I'll just put the word
hope in that, then it counts.

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I'm going to read two more
poems, and these are new poems.

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And so I'm just going to read
them to you because I really

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liked writing them.

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And they're acrostic
poems, so they're based

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on the artwork of Agnes Martin.

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And does anyone know that work?

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Yes.

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Do you like it?

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Yeah.

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So it's really huge.

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Lots of times, it's
10 by 10, and there

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are these little rectangles
that she used and/or stripes,

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and really like
mathematical work,

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and it appeals to me because
it's just filled with feeling,

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though you wouldn't think so.

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So I'll read this one,
and show you the piece,

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and then I'll and
then I'll show you

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the piece first for the next
one and I'll read you the poem.

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So we'll reverse the order.

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This one's called "Untitled
Number nine, 1995."

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Agnes only had
nine years to live.

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The angels must have
begun to hover around

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her canvas like monkeys.

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This canvas has nine
white thin strips

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between the red and blue ones.

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I've spent my life thinking
about the blue ones,

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thinking they were the
future, but the future

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was red all along.

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I sense something is
ending, but I'm not

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sure what, maybe
it's the future.

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This morning, I looked at a
large spiderweb above my car.

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When I returned 10 minutes
later, the weaver was gone,

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the web dismantled, but
my hands were still open.

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Maybe a life it doesn't
matter so much as the feeling

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it leaves behind, whether anyone
receives the feeling or not.

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Maybe our goal is to spend
all the light since none of us

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asked to be born.

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