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I'd like to lower
the tone now and read

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some poems about paranoia--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--which is not an
emotion I experienced

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until I came to this country.

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[LAUGHTER]

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This first poem is from a group
of poems called The Michael

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Morley Poems I read from.

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It's a persona, a character,
that I write about when

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I'm in certain manic moods.

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This is a little poem
called "The Man."

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"A man comes in the door
who makes your skin shiver.

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He says, 'I want
the television.'

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You say, 'Have it.'

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He says, 'I want the dog.'

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The dog, you say,
is more difficult.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You wrestle.

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He's a snake.

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He is fast.

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He is all over you.

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His nails will rip your back.

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Darling, you say, he tears
the stocking from his head,

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and it's the girl
of your dreams."

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[LAUGHTER]

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