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OK.

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Moving on.

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So this is a book
called Pink Waves.

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And this is an example of an
extreme edge of translation

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that I refer to in
my Say Translation is

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Art where I do what I
call a micro-translation

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of the syntax.

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There are source texts that
are from Adam Pendleton's poem,

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"Black Dada," which he has
a source text for which

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is Ron Silliman's "Ketjack."

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And then there's one
other source text

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which is Waveform by Amber
DiPietra and Denise Leto.

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And so it's a book that
I wrote in performance.

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It's a book that is in
a loose ABA sonata form.

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So there are musical
influences that

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went into the writing of it.

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It's a funky book too.

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It's a book length poem.

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So I'm going to read the
last section of the middle B

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section.

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But I can't find
the beginning of it.

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Here we go.

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So I'm dropping you right
in the middle of the book.

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So don't feel bad if
you don't understand.

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I guess that goes for anything
that I might be reading.

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You can feel bad
for other reasons,

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but don't feel bad
for not understanding.

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I feel bad about
a lot of things.

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"Eight.

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Do you think that if I brought
you more and more endless

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blue green ovals, then
far below the surface,

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you could jam an
entire shark following

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the manatee into your body,
and you could translate that

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into this touch, that blow,
and linger in a truer deep?

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Variate gate me.

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You don't have to eat it.

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Art is there.

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It is.

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I adore you.

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I was wrong.

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If I say something, I
will still be wrong.

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So I learned to hang with it.

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I miss you.

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I fall and brush the dirty
sidewalk off my sleeve.

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In 2019, private equity
investor Victor Lance Vescovo

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traveled 11 kilometers into the
depths of the Mariana Trench

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and saw some shrimp, a spoon
worm, a pink snailfish,

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as well as the sharp edges
of a man-made object.

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In 1967, Solanas self-published
her SCUM Manifesto

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and sold mimeographed
copies on the street.

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Sol LeWitt's 'Paragraphs
on Conceptual Art'

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were published in Artforum.

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The shoelaces of audience
members who identify as such

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are covertly tied together.

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And when they try
to run out of fear,

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that is when they see the light.

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I respect the need for
bicycles and bathrooms,

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but suspect the voice of an
external traducer, contest

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the outcome.

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The wrongness still lurks.

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Yesterday, I wrote
a letter to which

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I received a response
in the form of a call

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and response, called to
conduct experiments in joy.

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A slip of concentration
in the predicate vicinity

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is cause for a public
lapse, crashing one wave

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after another.

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The solitude of my
resistant pitch gestures

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towards commitments that merit
utopian amorous manifestations.

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Nétop means friend in Wopanaak.

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Pengyou means friend in Chinese.

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Mindful how you wield that word.

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Frogs die easily in
sites of abundance.

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Erode in Kusano Shinpei's
Iwaki is covered in frog kill.

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I need to enter the blue
space between whatever

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measures of time the body
requires to reassemble itself.

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A quiet neck is
often mismeasured

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as discomfort, which is
indifferent to the noise

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of the world.

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Anyone who enters can
witness my quiet protest.

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I release it into the
space and upwards a little.

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Empirical narrator
turns up the volume,

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up against the ambition, the
criminal, the acclamation.

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A woman lies down in the middle
of the central aching pasture

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from which she cannot get up.

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Avant garde poet Takagai
Hiroya wailing at the edge

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of the ocean in Post-3.11 Japan.

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I need the slightly
eroded quicksand moat

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to protect us all,
to protect us all.

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Sitting on the
banks of a new book,

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I abolish your notion of beauty.

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The sound must never impose
itself over the images

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or override or shout down.

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Conceptual artists do not march.

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They do not have feet and
legs, not in that way.

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I do not claim Black
Dada, but I know

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that certain uses of
the word love is a trap.

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Would I be a writer without
those who opened up space?

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The Black Dada
Reader is a collage

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by Adam Pendleton in
the form of a book.

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Internal findings undulate
in super slow motion

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beneath the bedroom window.

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In 1960, the poem
became a function.

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The desk is positioned
at the wrong height.

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These goals are a great
carrier of stillness.

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Back in the dirt, bring a
flower when you visit in case

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the rest is unintelligible.

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She was a proxy for
finite differences.

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She happened at once.

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She radioed.

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That bright light where your
aesthetics bullies my politics.

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I am willing to describe
you over and over again

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until you return.

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Not unlike an apology for the
atrocities of the American War.

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A passing moment reveals itself
to have been nothing, nothing,

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nothing, nothing.

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If empire maps onto bodies,
then which limb is your nation?

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Emancipatory and reactionary
figures are allowed to coexist.

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Drowning people die quietly
while others make noise.

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Women marched in 2017 in pink
hats and not in pink hats.

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In 1969, Sirhan Sirhan
shot Bobby Kennedy.

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No, that was '68.

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Earth sonata in the kitchen,
earth sonata in the shower.

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Hard to come by a room of my
own, but I do need some money.

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Destruction is
only an opportunity

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to build and rebuild, refusal
to participate in your version

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of understanding.

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I don't need to own your words,
or for that matter, mine.

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If you do not want to be
implicated, then get out now.

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Yes, you can.

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What I fail to embody can be
dispersed and refurbished.

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That dark alley where
my politics beats up

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your aesthetics.

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Since when is discernment
the right thing to desire?

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I propose an evasion of
inordinately large demands.

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The grand narrative collapses
under its own weight.

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I take a kick in the mouth
for you, over and over again.

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The scalpel is sharp, use
discretion when cutting.

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My facility when it arm
wrestles with your facility.

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I let you mortar, muzzle,
celebrate, and hate me.

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Speaking into a space
where one is illegible.

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If time drops here, my
function is to bewilder it.

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Any alerts on the table
must answer to the desk.

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I have solved for x.

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Recall, this too, is joy.

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It appears I have made
a fine mess of things

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on timescales comparable
to human lifetimes.

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I can't metric you no
matter how much I try.

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Reflex is the new register
upon which we vote,

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the formal struggle of a
vertical field of grass.

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Your transfiguration,
too controlling for me.

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The tree of the shade
of the leaf of the fall.

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How will I locate
expansiveness in touch?

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The on point rhythms
of partial identities.

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No two bodies occupy
pink the same way.

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That's just the way
you love, by thinking.

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Back in the dirt, all
the loves I have loved.

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Back in the dirt,
naively rooting around.

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I don't need your
fleabag scuttlebutt.

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What is globally fluid?

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Just think, just think.

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The extent that we
need another dollar.

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I let you fall here
like an intimate leaf.

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And I will share
this room with you.

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I don't need to be
at odds with myself.

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The steady abiding, the deaf
gain, how can I make this wave

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speak?

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For you, my friend,
a little discount.

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You, you, you, night, you, you.

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Do you know what I fail like?

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A fullness and mouth for two,
a breakdown of the criterion,

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destabilize this publication.

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Earth sonata sung by a beetle.

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The desk is a spatial deadline.

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No music without friendship.

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Illegible man, irreversible man,
I need you to see it, want it.

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Poppycock aperture power.

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Do you want more protection?

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Now I'm at odds with myself.

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We want to make noise,
incontinental embodiment.

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You, you, you, you, you, fire.

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Performance never dies.

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Alone over my dead fire.

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Mariana Roa Oliva is going away.

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Lipstick transmission light.

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Black Dada is not mine.

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Solitude of my pitch.

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No, and no, don't die.

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I need an explanation.

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Pulmonata kidney of, kick in
my mouth, no normalized anger,

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Bert confabulation.

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What about dinner?

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Gravitational light.

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Best case light beam.

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You were elegy fight.

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Evacuate this text.

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Seed of control.

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Line, hold to it.

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Fish or cigarettes?

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Do you like it?

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Prohibitive light.

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Do you hear it?

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The defiance.

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We ate them.

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Time capsule.

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So do I love.

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Light in haste.

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No language.

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Are you here?

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Black Dada, no
landfill, bed of fog.

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Is it here?

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Refuge."

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Thank you.

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