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So I have one poem here that
is about Arizona, actually,

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or has to do with Arizona.

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This is my first time here,
but I watched y'all from afar.

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Y'all had some fucked up laws.

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Y'all still have
some fucked up laws.

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So this is called-- this
is "Showing Papers I."

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It's a little series.

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In the second part, I'll
get the visuals going.

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So this is "Showing
papers I-- pregnant

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while brown," after the
laws of Arizona, 2012.

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And the laws had to do with
banning books, and immigrants,

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and abortions.

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So that's what happened here.

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I was pregnant with a book.

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A brown book.

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Every month pregnant,

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Every month brown.

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Birthing documents,

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Long forms,

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Short stories,

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Hidden histories,

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Tall tales,

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Tongue twisters.

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Pregnant every month.

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A bloody flight
from two Nogaleses.

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Pregnant

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With a bloody book on
the brown side of history

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In the arid Spanish native land.

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Ink expelled,

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Blood erased.

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Pregnant every month
with unwanted words

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Wrapped in a certificate.

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Abandoned womb text,

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A border infiltrated.

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Pages smuggled, crumpled,
bleeding, brown.

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History, a fugitive in the womb.

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