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Bienvenidos.

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Welcome.

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I'll be honest.

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I'll be swaying
a little too much

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because I had a glass of
wine I shouldn't have had.

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But I think I'll be OK.

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But I'm not nervous
it's just the wine.

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All right.

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I'm going to begin
with a couple of new--

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it probably gets me to go--

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some new work from my new book.

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It's called "Other Fugitives
and Other Strangers."

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And in this one
experiment a little

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bit with other types,
other forms of violence

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and the different ways
that it manifests itself

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in relationships.

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So this one's called "Freak."

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"She was born a he.

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A mass of heavy dark muscle
that forced his father to drink.

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No sober evening
met the peephole

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of an eye that held its breath
when nurse or visitor looked

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in.

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The baby's limbs were
pasted to the torso.

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The fingers tightly
stitched, unlike the penis,

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which curved and curved into
a soft solitary wrinkle.

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To watch his son suckle was to
witness his wife's breast turn

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itself inside out.

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From this creature, feared
the father, a monster, chain

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and leash, circus freakdom.

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A parade of pink dwarves.

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Bearded women and a four legged
body with two somber skulls.

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Worse yet, a salivating
canine of a boy,

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squatting in triumph over the
rubbery flesh of its mother.

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But for all ill fated scenarios
the father could conceive,

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nothing prepared him for the
sultry woman his son became.

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The boy bloomed inside seductive
lavenders, greens plump

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as pears gave him hips.

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Sunflower yellows and
magentas warmly breathing

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taught him how to
wiggle and whisper.

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At night the mysteries of red
revealed themselves to him,

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to her.

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The father trembled at the
passion stirred within him.

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All those years of
resisting touch and kiss

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had swollen up into temptation
at the sight of her, his son,

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reversed into the beauty of
pleated skirts, lace ribbons,

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nylons, opaque as
and smoky bars.

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Unable to escape desire the
father grasped a shattered

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bottle then plunged himself
into this creature's bed

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tearing cloth from skin, hair
from scalp, flesh from bone--

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the lady's lovely bones."

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