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This is sort of a dream.

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I feel like I have all
these hangovers from all

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these conversations I've had
with writers here this week,

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I mean, sort of in classrooms.

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And one of the things--
so anyway, something

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that I think about
a lot is that dreams

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are like the perfect object
for writing poems off

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of because they're
like they're fleeting.

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So you can't-- it's incomplete.

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So you're always
doing this thing

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of trying to kind
of get it or trying

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to articulate it or something.

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And then it's impossible.

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So the impossibility is
this beautiful, poetic form.

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So it's only-- a few times
I've woken out of sleep

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and instantly wrote a
poem, and it really worked.

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And then many times,
it's not worked at all.

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And I just have these
things in my notebook.

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But this one is
called "Monday Shit."

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And of course, the people
at Grove were like,

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are you sure about that title?

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Yes, I'm sure.

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But it's a dream.

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"I don't know if I'm knowing
something or falling apart.

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I put my two feet together.

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It's Monday.

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I put the water on.

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I was dropping a man off,
a dark haired friend.

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I was parked in the
middle of the plaza.

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I can't stay here.

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I went inside a little.

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I got to go.

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And I went up there
over the lumpy hills.

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The store where
the women worked,

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my friends, an old guitar
store, everything's

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different now because
of the pandemic.

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I want to go to that, I think.

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Can I put my bike behind
the counter or up there?

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No, because we're moving.

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I see plenty of room.

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Next, I'm all involved
with them, the kids,

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and they're playing outside.

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I'm in the apartment somehow and
everyone's gone, like I woke.

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I could have put my
bicycle anywhere.

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It's morning.

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I called the children
like it's morning.

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Where did this shit come from?

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And I found the morning coffee.

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And this is a miracle.

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I just called them.

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And they came in like dogs.

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I dreamed this world.

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That's it.

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Does it work this way, working,
dreaming, having a life,

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making and dying?

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Why did I die to dream this?

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And everyone that knows
me or something somewhere

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or some while, I know
you once in a while.

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I truly forgot about him.

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I didn't know he was
going to do that.

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Everybody's not in a dream, but
me or we find each other here.

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I didn't know their
fucking names,

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but I found their children.

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I was first.

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I'm waking here.

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It's perfect, everything.

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Because copy is like
music, I thought

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about quitting in the future
for the better orgasm.

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I read that.

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I did it once in the '80s.

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We were camping and shit,
whoa, waking from that dream

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into this.

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But my cave, my hovel, afraid
to put it in a suitcase,

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while my dreaming come.

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The feeling of flowing with
you, but you have seven stories.

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And I have three,
possibly three.

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One flooded with a baby.

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Do I know?

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All I know is this kid.

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I'm just thinking about
what you're getting

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into as I'm making my day.

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How did it end this time?

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Feeding the yellow dog.

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I was looking for
a parking place.

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And it was my dyke, my children.

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And I didn't know
anyone's names.

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Is this the story that holds
the future, or is this the day

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so marvelous pouring some
of it over and over there?

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I think it's perfect in
me, this prophecy right

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here, now it holds."

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