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We'll just do a few more
from the third section.

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And then we'll sign books and
talk, if you'd like to do that.

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So how's everybody doing?

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This is the post
trauma check in?

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[LAUGHTER]

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Everybody's all right?

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You're all good?

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OK.

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I know I took you
to many places.

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I'm glad you're all right.

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Thank you for coming with me.

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This is called
"While I Wash My Face

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I Ask Impossible Questions of
Myself and Those Who Love Me."

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"Specks of toothpaste
fleck the mirror.

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A fan spins dust in the hall.

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I find 'this is it?'

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too vulgar to accept.

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So I wait for a
new starting point,

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as though life will
begin there and then.

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Do you know what I mean?

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Not what I'm
saying, what I mean.

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Is it possible my
function is to hold

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all the intricate interstitial
pain and articulate clarity?

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Tie a boat to my
wrist, I sprout wings.

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Give me a pair of
shoes, I grow fins.

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Once an hour, I trick
myself into focus.

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I look into the glass,
as I look through it.

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When the new beginning
comes, what then?

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Does life suddenly
reset like an Atari?

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Does meaning emerge assertively
and without invitation?

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The task is to live
well enough with you.

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But how?

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How do you know what you
want, if you don't tell you,

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if you don't hear you?