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So I'm going to read a few
from "that's what you get,"

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which is the book I put
out during the pandemic

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with Brooklyn Arts Press.

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And the publishers are here
tonight, Joe and Wendy.

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It is awesome to have them here.

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This little book is
so random, and so much

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fun bitterness that I
really, I don't know,

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it's held me up in these
terrible, terrible times.

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Yeah, this one's a lot
more fun because I'm young,

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and this one's a lot
more fun because I'm old.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Like old in that fun way
and fun in that old way.

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This is Leaving Coney.

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Ahora sí que no me hallo, am
barely conscious for this.

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The crying has stopped.

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I got a few things done, was
my niece's packing coach,

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bought some boxes for Ma.

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After I hugged her
at one point, she

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said I would age fast
because I'm so sentimental.

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I told her I stay unemployed,
that keeps me young.

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The years make you sleepy.

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Oh, both things, the
tears make you sleepy.

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That is the only
way I get any rest.

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Damn the phantom capitalist
hand making this happen.

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All the blame on the family
is past, at least for moments.

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I am not right
anywhere, was always

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displacement girl, forever
from the edge of the sea.

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Blood moving now to the
outer banks of this island

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where our people from the
middle of the world are pushed.

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It is most home when
I am most decentered.

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Decentral America,
unstable, a sliver.

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How do we hold on
to the continent?

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How do we not fall
into the water?

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