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Hello.

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Thank you for coming out.

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Thank you University of Arizona,
thank you Poetry Center,

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thank you Tyler, thank
you Paola, thank you Aria,

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thank you Melissa, who
had a birthday yesterday.

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Thank you Claire, who
had a birthday today.

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Thank you Stephane, for turning
on my heat in the cottage.

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Thank you students, who
spent time with me today.

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Thank you docents, for
making this possible.

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And thank you for
community for coming out.

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This is a beautiful experience
and I hope you enjoy yourselves.

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So I never do this.

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I'm going to read
something off my phone.

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And the reason I'm doing this,
it is because not my poem.

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This is a poem by
Galway Kinnell,

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who was very dear to me.

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And we mentioned him last
night during the workshop.

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So I have a good friend who's
going through a time right now.

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And this poem reminded me of
him and I want to read this

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and I don't know--
this is being streamed.

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Maybe he's listening.

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The poem is called
"Wait" by Galway Kinnell.

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And I want to dedicate
this poem to my friend

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but also to anyone here who's
going through something.

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"Wait, for now.

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Distrust everything if you
have to, but trust the hours.

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Haven't they carried you
everywhere up to now?

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Personal events will
become interesting again.

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Hair will become interesting,
pain will become interesting,

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buds that open out of season
will become interesting,

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second hand gloves will
become lovely again,

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their memories are what give
them the need for other hands.

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The desolation of
lovers is the same.

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That enormous emptiness
carved out of such tiny beings

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as we are asks to be filled.

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The need for the new love
is faithfulness to the old.

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Wait, don't go too early.

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You're tired, but
everyone's tired.

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But no one is tired enough,
only wait a little and listen.

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Music of hair, music
of pain, music of

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looms weaving our loves again.

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Be there to hear it.

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It will be the only
time, most of all,

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to hear your whole existence,
rehearsed by the sorrows,

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play itself into
total exhaustion."

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That's Galway Kinnell.

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Now I'll turn my phone
off, as you all

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should do, if you
haven't done already.

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