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OK.

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One more.

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I'm going to read this one from
my teachers and for my friends

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here.

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It's called Voiceover.

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This will be the last one.

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So I never got clearheaded
and never purposeful,

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was no fletcher of
arrows, no jobber,

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no motor boy in a lube hut.

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And I certainly
couldn't say I was

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like those in Costa Rica, who
cut crude birds from aluminum

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pie plates to sell
on the street.

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I was nowhere near that focused.

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But it turned out fine
once I put on a gown

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and married myself to you.

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My confusion, my bafflement,
my perennial distraction,

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my brother who is
me if I am honest.

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It happened
unexpectedly one morning

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as I was crossing
some traffic staking

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my claim against a road
full of streaming vehicles,

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on the other side combing my
hair in honor of the progress

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I'd made.

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I decided never again to admire
anyone who is centered and calm.

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I was 16 years old or 75.

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I was not too late.

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I thought of calling my
friends in other states.

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But they were asleep, their
pillows like well used boxes

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of matches.

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In dreams, we set
ourselves on fire,

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hopeful of changes happening.

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I wanted to tell my
friends: the clouds

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that do all the
thinking inside my head

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saying to me like a choir the
Sisters of Mercy assembled.

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Now I could ask the woods
in which my mother walked

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for her release.

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None of my friends could tell
later how it was my hands

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got dirtied, the
nails blackened.

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I had forgotten much myself.

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Would I remember
how in a side yard

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off a street behind
the square I had just

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crossed that when one of
the silk shirts standing

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there tried to correct me
into the right posture,

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all I need do in reply was
press a leaf against my lips.

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Oh.

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Yes.

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The poor like us
should celebrate.

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That was progress.

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Thank you.

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