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So I'm going to start.

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The poems at the beginning that
Gabe so eloquently introduced

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all started by trying
to do something

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very simple, something I
had the privilege of doing,

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and that was getting a passport
photo at a Walgreens or a Duane

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Reade.

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And then things got weird.

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Standing in line to
take a passport photo,

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an old white man looks at
me and claims I am running.

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Standing here because my
grandpa ran away from home

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to sell perfume en
el zócalo at 9:00.

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In line, I am a lot of things.

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And since I am a lot of things,
I am everything he cannot

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imagine.

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A passport photo asks
me to two by two myself

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and capture what
I am in neutral.

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And I recall I have yet to see
the chambers of my heart turn

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tusk.

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An old white man
is-- a old white man

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is not Gil Scott-Heron,
saying, because I always

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feel like running, not away
because there is no such place.

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Is not how you pronounce
exile or escapar.

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Looks at me how Teddy Roosevelt
died coveting a white buffalo,

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claims I am afraid.

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No, I am a wall.

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No, I am a mirror.

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I am still, so still.

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