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Overheard music in malls
was something Ander

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mentioned that I like a lot.

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This is called It's Funny.

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Sometimes I can forget I'm even
in a cult, raised in the train

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station mall by the people
contracted to clean.

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I use the restroom
at the T-ball field,

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a party forms to
peek into the vent.

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It's funny, I'm 80% vacant,
escalator static, potted tree,

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half dust.

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Today, I'll waste my shot on an
artery or get my license back.

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The County Courthouse
fountain reconstitutes

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the misadventure dove.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you.

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This poem is called
Life-Like Coyote.

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I bit into that gale of
steam, that clipboard name

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for having fear of us to lose.

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What's canon is your rust copper
fluff on the breakdown lane.

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Just sleep paralysis to
soften us, cooked together,

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tickled by some pervert
child rearing book.

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Rinse me off the black
market bus stop, horse track,

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dog track, State route 86.

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None of it long for the
backflow in which you churn.

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I'm just going to
do a couple more.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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It was important
in this book that I

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was going to-- if I
was going to get down

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some story about
the land and where

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I come from that I was attentive
to the entire system of it

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rather than just the
postcard iconography of it.

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And my middle school
was a treacherous place,

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and I'm sure it still is.

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But in this poem, I smuggled
this infamous graffito

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from those hallways.

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And it's a poem better than
anything I could write.

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So I'll try to, like, pronounce
it and make it come out.

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This is called Night Camouflage.

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I look like what I am:
storefront rememberer.

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A mildewed stack of dead
arcana with no currency

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to lie and claim you read.

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The station every
edged out abductee

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claims to have risen to
then cut and run from.

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Feeling for old drums of
future war and structures,

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powerless, riddled by the
Zippo lighted scrawls:

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hit a crip in the lip.

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What drip, what crawls,
throw towels on it,

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skewer it with push knives
while Edith Street sleeps.

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Mix concrete adrenalized by
the sheer sustained torment

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of your cleaved off undeveloped
twins and smotherable dust,

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pneumonia wincing.

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Lock your door.

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List your house.

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I'm just putting shit at
this point in the calendar.

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The city gazes back now.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thanks.

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I have one more.

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This is also from the book,
and it's called Desire.

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Late when I can't
sleep, I desire

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to give you these compliments.

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My eyes come morning won't
pass FaceID's inspection,

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but they'll still
be human's eyes,

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await in the dressed
body of an animal.

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A subscription to
these human's eyes

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await in the dressed
bodies of meat animals

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that you can't
even keep up with.

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Why, you ask me, as
you ask yourself?

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What cartel execution
news ad did you click?

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If you'd been childless,
no trace on any cyborg

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shrieking down the
Martian tarmac of us.

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If I could choose
a second stint,

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but more abandoned to you.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Epic.

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