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Wow, I almost forgot to
stand up and come up here.

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I just was so
enthralled by that.

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Thank you so much, Susan.

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Thank you all for being here.

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It's wonderful to
gather with all of you

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and share in some poetry.

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I do want to take a moment to
thank the University of Arizona

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Poetry Center and all the
incredible staff, Tyler, Diana,

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Paola, Julie,
Sarah, and everyone

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else who has
welcomed us, and then

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Farid and Susan for inviting us
into Tucson and just making us

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feel so at home, and
everyone else at the Center.

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Thank you so much.

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And what an honor, of course,
to read with my beloved here.

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And that's always
a special treat

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when we get the
chance to do that,

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to hear one another's
poem read aloud.

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So I will be reading
mostly from Yellow Rain,

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but I would like to start
with a poem from Afterland.