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Tyler mentioned that
tomorrow there's

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a performance at Tucson MOCA.

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And it's from five poems that
occur across the book that

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are all connected.

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And I'm going to start
the first one right now.

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It begins with an
epigraph from the writer

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Cristina Rivera Garza,
which is, "In the beginning,

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there was the we, we
being the most intimate

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and also the most
political form of accessing

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one's subjectivity."

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I have no idea what time it is.

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--timing myself, 7:24.

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"Consequences Upon Arrival."

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"The sharp calls advancing
across the valley

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were no longer for us.

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Or they would be
again, but not yet.

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Stretching yards and
deserts in their weight.

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Though we could name the
places and their capitals.

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We could pull a needle through
every orifice long and small.

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Water falling is the sensual
conflict of a heart split open.

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We felt for every boundary,
adjacent to which neighboring

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vertebrates fed themselves.

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A simple degree toward the
wrong coordinate and the moment

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could change completely.

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And the change would
be thoroughly complete.

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Would ring through the
bones of our appearance.

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A thoroughly surrounding
contraindicative pulse.

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The voices advancing, in some
instances observing our fear,

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accelerated the physical
expression of hours.

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Publicly.

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In suggestive
incongruent thrusts.

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We slept through
the engine-braking.

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The conflicting
nightmilk intrusions.

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Woke morning after morning to
swarms of fruit sucking bees.

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They too on their way
downriver to welcome

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the morning in a good way.

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Tender ensembles to
articulate the water's edge.

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We woke to the doorframe at the
edge of dunes, which we'd always

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believed was a metaphor.

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But there ajar along
the sagged sand fencing.

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We said this with care,
though the sagging

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was one of hostility.

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We said, someone
should fix that.

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Little passed through the frame,

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The pussing stitches,

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The counter stitches,

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The stitched rosettes,

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Tenderness surrounding
their appearance,

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Tenderness integrating
an introduction,

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A growing necessity to breed.

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We followed our intentions.

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Swaying.

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Soft with desire on the tails of
the processions whose shoulders

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did not rise above the brush.

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Our intentions
pleaded in such a way

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that our intentions could
neither be challenged

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nor brought entirely to light.

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Their tenderness veiled
by the inversion of light.

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Doubt, our precise and
technical transformation.

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Of all the things
we didn't know:

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The most efficient way to
release a dog's bite is to--

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we never would have guessed--

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put a finger in its ass.

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Which demonstrates
clearly the importance

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of context with regard
to appropriate behavior.

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Context was what we waited for.

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These conflicts in passing
accumulated in the moment

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for which we prepared.

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Though when it
arrived we were wet.

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We were wide-eyed and well-read.

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Waiting.

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Readiness, we realized, was
never the appropriate goal."

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I want to give a shout out
to Amber Morning Star Byars

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here in the front
row who taught me

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that the most efficient
way to release

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a dog's bite is to put a
finger in its ass, never

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would have known.

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