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Here's a poem written
when I was tired.

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You get tired and you
get antsy and stuff.

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And-- Oh, I will tell you
some ethnic information.

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You probably want to have
some ethnic information.

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And I know I am not the only
person of color or of any sort,

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I imagine, in this room.

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But you know when
you're on your bus--

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you know when you're on a
bus, and a drunk black person

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gets on, and you
pretend you're asleep.

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I know you-- have you done this?

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My sister, yes, you have.

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Well, this was that
sort of day, I think.

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But I also am a person
who believes in signs.

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And I have seen many signs
in the last year or so

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that something is
happening in the world.

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Something is happening.

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And I don't think
it's very positive.

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And I also believe
that civilizations

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are lost in groups, but
they are saved one on one.

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I'm sure of that.

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This is called "The Times."

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It is hard to remain
human on a day

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when birds perch weeping in
the trees and the squirrel eyes

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do not look away but
the dog ones do in pity.

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Another child has
killed a child.

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And I catch myself relieved
that they are white.

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And I might understand
except that I

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am tired of understanding.

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If these alphabets could
speak their own tongue,

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it would be all symbol surely.

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The cat would hunch
across the long table,

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and that would mean
time is catching up.

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And the spindle fish
would run to ground,

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and that would mean
the end is coming.

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And the grains of dust
would gather themselves

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along the streets and spell out,
these too are your children.

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This too is your child.

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[AUDIENCE APPLAUDING]

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