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So I had a fairly
peripatetic youth.

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I was born in Tucson, and
then I moved everywhere else.

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And now I'm back here.

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But part of that lifestyle was
that you spend a lot of time

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in hotels, and
especially motels.

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And I was always haunted when
I would open the bedside table

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and discover a bible in
there that had been placed

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by none other than the Gideons.

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And it struck me as this
beautifully romantic ideal,

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that there's this army
of Gideons out there,

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just depositing bibles in the
motel bedsides of the world.

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What a thankless job.

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So this is for them,
if they're out there,

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which they probably are.

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"Ghost of Motel Six."

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"If this boy you
inhabit is a hotel,

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its neon needles the
alphabet lightly.

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Bibles loam unopened
in the boredom

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of bedside tables, patient
little loaves of leather,

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black in their theaters
of compressed sleep.

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In each room of
each lung, silence

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swells like a syndicate of ants.

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The ghost unfurls from the
television like a flower.

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The bathroom window is broken.

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The wind asking
questions, asking

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you to come outside to see
what it has against you."

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