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[APPLAUSE]

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I am so small.

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I'm so grateful for that intro.

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I'm so grateful for Tucson,
the Poetry Center, for poetry.

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As Farid was speaking,
this beautiful beetle

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just landed on my shoulder.

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And I have to share
with you, I was actually

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terrified of that beetle
when I was a child.

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But there's something different.

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Perhaps it's the
desert, perhaps it's

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the monsoon that arrived
as Tyler and Paola left me

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in the apartment.

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Perhaps it's time
to read to you all.

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I'm going to be reading
from all of my works,

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including a book that I said
I would never read from again,

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called, "Black Lavender Milk"
which started this whole thing.

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I'll also be reading new work,
because the moon has a lot

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to say to you.

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And last night I took dictation.

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I don't know how to explain
to you all what it means

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to be a poet in the world.

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I don't know how to
explain to you all

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what it means to have this time
and space, to work on new work,

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to work on being alive, to
build a future together.

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