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Hm, trying to debate
whether I want to read

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you the new one or the old one.

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The new one's kind of long.

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I'll read you the new one.

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It takes 12 minutes to read.

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I hope this is OK.

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It's not boring.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Well, I promise it's not boring.

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[SIGHS] I've timed it.

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I've read it once before.

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This is going to be in the APR,
next issue or the issue after.

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It's again, it's playing
with the look on the page.

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It's got four words in
the corners of the pages.

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See?

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So it's nailed up like that.

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The idea of the
nails came from--

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our family has Martin
Luther in its ancestry,

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and I like the idea of
nailing, nailing something up.

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So I nailed it up
with four words,

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and APR is accommodating it
by putting in a little space.

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This is about geology
and addiction,

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syntactically deranged
in each little packet.

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It's got these little
stanza packets that

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are neither stanzas nor
lines, but anyway it's

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called "A Geology."

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I will read the
corner words first.

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And that way I won't interrupt
the reading of the poem,

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and then I'll read
the poem rather fast.

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I know I read it too fast, but
it's the way it sounds to me.

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"Range, conditions, locust
disagree, features outcropping,

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silence re-used, daylight,
suture, excellent, fault, trap,

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enact, telluric, avail--"
How did I choose these?

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I chose them.

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"Plate, porch, proud civilian,
bedding, mica, stars, Mexico,

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slide, metal, shists, bubbles,
fault, fault, fault, fault."

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That's it.

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"A Geology."

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"What we love can't see--

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if Italy looks like a
boot to most people,

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California looks like
the skin of a person

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about to sit down, a geology.

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Consider the coast range--

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we can achieve the same results
by pushing a pile of wet papers

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from the left, and finally
they were just in love

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with each other.

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Consider the fault line
with only two sides of it.

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How come you never
thought of one of them?

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A place we love can't see--

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a condition so used to becoming.

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Those who have
straddled reference

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know a map will
stand for wholeness.

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When you were trying to quit
the drug and broke in half,

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you said...

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and you had to trust it--

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that is, needing it.

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Landforms enable us to
scare, where Berkeley is once

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a shallow sea, with land forms
to the West called Cascadia.

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No kidding.

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I read this.

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A geology breaks
in half to grow.

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A person whose
drug like a locust

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jumps across someone's
foot singing,

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we disagree with D
who hates similes.

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The transverse range is
holding Los Angeles, spit out

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a desert on their hazard
side, a power transformed

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from a period of thrall into an
ordinary period of lying here.

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There are six major faults.

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There are skipped verbs.

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There are more little
thoughts in California.

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The piece of coast
slides on the arrow.

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Down is reverse.

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Subduction means the crust goes
underneath the continent, which

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is rather light.

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It was my friend.

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I needed it.

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The break in the
rock shows forward.

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The flash hurts.

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Granite is composed
of quartz, hornblende,

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and other former fire.

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When a drug is trying to
quit, it has to stretch.

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Narrow comes from the
same place as glamour.

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A scarf hangs over the edge,
as it does from Monterey

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to Santa Barbara.

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When we were trying to
quit, it had to shout.

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The rest of our party
had gone up ahead.

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Exaggeration has no
effect upon silence.

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It took my breath.

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I gave it willingly.

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I told it to, and
the breath listened.

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Consider the place of
I-80 towards outcroppings.

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When you've gotten to Auburn,
a whole dog shaped ground

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has broken through,
the rock struggling

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with features, its bachelor
joy caused by the power that

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has kissed you.

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What happened happened
a lot, not to glamorize

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what can't be helped.

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A bunch of fiery islands floated
over and sutured themselves

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to us 100 million years ago.

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I like to hold one, just really
light it, put my mouth on it.

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It's appropriate
to discuss features

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when we speak of California,
daylight's treatment

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of a sudden movement in rock.

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It pretended not to mind.

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You passed him on the path.

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Miocene lava smiled as it
ordered the darker color

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to sit down.

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When he was trying to quit,
he based his reasoning

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on the way mountains slip.

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California's glaciers
never reached the sea.

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The drug was trapped
in me and fit.

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The Klamath Mountains
love the veins

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of excellent, excellent stress.

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See figure 12.

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Between the time two
mountains slip-- nothing,

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between two points of
resolution-- nothing less,

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a little more, almost,
and the slip happened.

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It happened a lot, just
30 million years ago.

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I saw between the flames
four types of instruments.

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With one, they touched my mouth.

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With another, you
touched her feet.

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Rocks of the oldest time
are barely represented.

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This is the voice
from the cave Illyria.

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The fault went under artichokes
in 1982, makes you love it up

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here.

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I talked to the
permanent fire about it.

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What pushes up from
under isn't named

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or is that what
makes you do this

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to yourself, what makes
you a language caught up

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under like a continent.

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I was inhaling, though
they told me not to.

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In the Gabilán Range, small
volcanoes erupted softly,

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then this throw rug over the
carpet in a bowling alley

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type of effect.

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A California is composed of
moving toward, away, or past.

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A skin is not separate.

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A poem is composed of
all readings of it.

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Elements redeem
themselves plenty.

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Alchemists say so.

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I gave my breath
quite easily then.

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Sorry, it's ashes.

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Sorry, it's smoke
all the way down.

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Gravity has to practice.

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The disciple of angles
smashed planet after planet,

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rubbing the cave of
chalk onto his cue

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and put them into corners,
like a Aquinas' five proof,

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proofs for the existence of God.

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Nice touch on that boy.

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Nice touch on those,
who sleep till noon,

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sleep the sleep of the
uninsured till noon and wake

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with maps of Sacramento
on their hands.

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What made the Sierra
lift from the right?

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Telluric Pop-Tart--
geologists refer

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to the range as trapdoor-like.

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[AUDIO OUT]

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A power has twinned
itself in that place.

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We follow it until we are
its favorite, then we live.

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Does the drug recover?

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The Pacific plate began
this recent movement

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20 million years ago.

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Fresno was underwater.

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The small creatures
barely noticed.

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I smelled it until it
stopped looking pretty.

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Let's call a spoon, a spoon.

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We dig right down into
ourselves for the rocks

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of the middle kingdom--

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gold folded into the mother
lode, often twinned with quartz.

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They seem to like each other.

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Addicts stay on the
porch lighting them,

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and elsewhere, structures
of several lighthouses--

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lighthouse cliffs recall the
tremors that brought them here.

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That extra island on
the belt, Cascadia--

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I whirred the wheel, and
the continent moved over,

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but I still wanted it.

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Los Angeles, cheap
betting, you'd

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allow her to go
first, then you'd go.

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Pull the youngest
blanket over her.

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Bang.

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If that's how you like it,
fine, like warm sandstone.

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We're living at the
dawn of creation

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as far as California
is concerned.

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The skin goes first.

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Most beaches are losing sand.

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It drifts south to Mexico.

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He sold it.

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She mixed it.

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We bought the f--
in 1980 x trying

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to endure the glass front curve
in the unaccountable ghost man's

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pleasure.

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Get down off that ladder, you.

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Ceiling stars,
little fiery islands

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were light as they ordered
Nevada to move over.

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The white thing took her breath.

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She let it slide.

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It recognized what to do
after it started no change.

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Seeing you is methadone
for seeing you.

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The numbers of-- the number
of faults in middle California

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is staggering-- that is we
stagger over them until it's

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difficult to follow our own.

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Each tremor is the nephew of
a laugh, sandstone, shale,

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chert from the Triassic
near I-forget-ville.

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He lined them up.

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They made white sands
stretch marks on her body,

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like public transportation,
very coastal, very Sierra train

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tracks, that click, click
down the sides of thighs,

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stretch marks where the
soul has grown too quickly

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from inside, but in
a way, not really.

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A geology has its appetites.

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New islands were forming
to get the gist of it.

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Much of the coast moved
on its own to get free.

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Sometimes, he'd just pass it
to us, the prince of stains--

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the universe cried through him.

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The sea was glassing
itself over Half Moon Bay.

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Should have dropped
again suddenly--

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she'd have gone back in the
service of that burnt-out Eden.

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It's appropriate to discuss
what can't be helped,

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fire lights, shists,
cherts, marbles,

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an angel in the enunciation,
little sub-zero Mary,

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kneeling before you
in the bathroom,

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while you were
burning your skin off.

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You went East, and
you went South.

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They took out their
little fear schedules--

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the Pacific plate
on the left, moving

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North, while the right stands
still if you look down on it.

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There's no way to say
progress had been made.

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I never did not think about
lighting them, not one day,

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as if a requiem could help how
chords fell off the bottom.

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Cascadia breathed.

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I tried program.

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H tried program after program.

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D tried specific harvests of
bubbles, ashes, little metal

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on the stove.

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The rest of our party
had gone up ahead.

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Don't name it.

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The lithosphere likes to
float on the asthenosphere,

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the soft mobile
voice of the unseen.

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I slide below you
sweet and high.

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It wants to hear you.

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It wants to touch you.

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It wants to be happy.

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And it wants to die.

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Fire lights, shales,
cherts, marbles,

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press pound when
you are finished.

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No one knows why the
ark of miner islands

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sewed themselves
to us in that way.

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When I put it to my mouth,
I had no ability to stop it.

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The sea ate the colors
100 million years ago.

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A geology is not a strategy.

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When an addict tries
to leave, the desire

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to make himself over
shifts from what it felt

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like to have been a subject.

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LA will dwell beside San
Francisco eventually.

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Attempting to pun
on the word fault--

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all right, say plot,
all right happens.

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The tendency to fault
relieves the strain.

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New islands were forming
to get the gist of it.

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We wanted the extraordinary
stranger in our veins--

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the question of
whether it's better not

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to have been held by something.

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The oldest limestone prevalent
between Big Sur and Calaveras

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is not better than say
any other kind of rock.

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The suffering wasn't luckier.

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It wasn't a question of asking.

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In the instead hour, the
minutes of not recovering

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from the difference of what we
loved, sameness is also true--

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world, like a spider, sucking
the carapace the same color

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as itself.

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In the expiation
of nature, we are

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required to experience the
traumatic narrative of matter.

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The rocks under California are
reigning in their little world.

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This was set down
in strata, so you

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could know what it felt
like to have been earth."

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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