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This next poem is entitled
"Renaming My Face."

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And there's a name
that gets repeated

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in the poem, which is--

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the name is Mehina.

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And it was simply
a name that came

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in a dream, a name I had
in a dream for myself.

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The reading begins to
get a little serious now.

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So--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--the funny poems
are all behind me.

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Actually, this poem is very
much indebted in part to a film

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that a friend of mine made.

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I'm sure I wouldn't
have written this

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if it hadn't been a
combination of the dream

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and seeing a film that he did.

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"Renaming My Face."

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Mehina.

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One clock, one mirror, one
last vertical gaze, flowers

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and smoke.

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One milkman, Mehina,
one milkman who

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kissed my two wives, my friend,
Mehina, one stranger, one

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friend, one piece of
paper citing repairs,

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many visits to a girlfriend, one
policeman, Mehina, who ticketed

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our mirror, one clock
bonging, many visits

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which were only one visit.

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Girls, Mehina, girls,
girls who went nowhere,

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waving from a train
which went nowhere

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because they waved from a film.

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One stranger with
not enough flowers

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for so many girls, all of them
on the train, the stranger

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and girls.

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The stranger, Mehina, who
smokes, the policeman, who

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smokes, the mirror
which is broken,

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the house of Mehina
owned by Mehina,

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the duchess who cared for
me, the vertical Mehina,

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the flat stomach of him
who could not make love,

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the flat stomach which
tasted like your kiss,

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the broken kiss of the mirror.

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Hours I spent watching
myself, renaming my face,

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Mehina, letters I wrote,
clocks I repaired.

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Correction, repairing my
face, dreaming flatly.

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The mirror, which
wanted to bark at me,

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Mehina, the smoke which fell,
Mehina, keepers who died,

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my friends who died,
the lies I told,

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Mehina, the lies, the
broken kiss of each lie.

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One mirror, which needed
a kiss blown by Mehina,

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blown gently through an open
hand, out over magenta fields.

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Correction, one kiss
which needed pity,

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one mirror which needed repair.

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Mehina, the kiss
which needed repair."

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[APPLAUSE]

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Oh, thank you.

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