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I've discovered that if you--

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that's the only way
you can righteously not

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spare others is if you
don't spare yourself.

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It's very important I think.

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This is a poem
called "Moonchild."

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I was born under the sign
of Cancer, I'm still Cancer.

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If you say it's raining,
I think it's my fault.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I did-- I did this today, it
rained, I probably did it.

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And I'm sorry, as a Cancer
I'm extremely sorry.

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I feel real bad about it.

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This is a poem
called "Moonchild."

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Whatever slid into
my mother's room

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that late June night,
tapping her great belly,

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summoned me out round
headed and unsmiling.

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Is this the moon?

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my father used to
grin, cradling my head.

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It was the moon, but
nobody knew it then.

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The moon understands
dark places,

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the moon has secrets of her own,
she holds what light she can.

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We girls were 10-year-old and
giggling in our hand-me-downs.

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We wanted breasts,
pretended that we had them,

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tissued our undershirts.

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Jay Johnson is teaching me
to French kiss, Ella bragged.

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Who is teaching you?

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How do you sigh, my father?

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The moon remembers
everything, she

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rules the oceans, rivers, rain.

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When I am asked whose
tears these are,

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I always blame the moon.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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