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And here's the piece that's
untitled "Number Nine, 1995."

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And I'll read one more
poem, and I'll show you

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the piece while I'm reading it.

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No, wrong way.

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Has anyone seen this one?

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I love this one.

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This one's in the MoMA
in New York right now.

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It's made with gold
leaf, and I think

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it's the only piece that
she made with gold leaf.

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And the grids were actually
glued on there one by one,

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and cut out.

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I don't think they were scored.

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I haven't read anything
about that process,

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but it's so beautiful.

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And it's called
"Friendship, 1963."

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Thank you for coming.

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I came to the city
so I could see gold.

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When I arrived, though,
the leaves were gold, too

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and I became confused.

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I called the front
desk four times

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and Angel answered each time.

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By the third call, he
ended with: talk soon.

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In the morning, a
different man answered

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and I burst into tears.

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On 53rd Street, small children
kept on running into me.

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A father yelled so loudly
at the boy on the scooter

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that I thought he knew I was
carrying death on my back.

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By the time I arrived at the
museum, there was a long line.

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The bald man in front of me kept
turning around to look at me.

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I could tell by his forehead
that he could hurt me.

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When I finally found the room,
I was the only one in there.

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Everyone else was below
me in the Picasso room.

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While I stared at
the gold rectangles,

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two attendants talked about
whether to work overtime

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and get paid time and a half.

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I wanted to tell them that
there's no such thing as time,

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just time and a half.

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Sometime in the night,
Etel Adnan had died.

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I had just seen her
paintings the day before.

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The crowds were large, and I
wondered whether our looking

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had accelerated her death.

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When I took a photo
of Agnes's piece,

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I saw my dark
reflection on the gold.

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I started counting the
grids, but the bald man

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came up next to me.

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Suddenly, there were two
dark shadows on the gold.

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I asked him to step away,
but when he said no,

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it was Agnes's voice.

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Thank you.

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