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So I'm not going--

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there's one poem from
this book in the exhibit,

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it's the one that's on
the chiffon hanging.

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And I'm not going
to read that one.

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You can read that one.

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I'm going to read a
poem called "Camisado."

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Do you know what this
means in military terms?

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It means killing your
enemies in their sleep.

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I remember the first
time I heard it.

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I was in junior high in a
social studies class, history,

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something like that.

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And I remember the teacher--

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the reason I remember is because
it was such an odd sentence.

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The most famous
American camisado

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is when George
Washington crossed

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the Delaware to kill the
British and their sleep,

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that whole thing.

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He' like-- and he was just
talking about how it was really

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great and very brave
and courageous.

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And I was like,
mm, I don't know.

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Killing people while
they're asleep dreaming

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about fish and chips or
whatever they're doing.

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I don't think that's a problem.

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I don't know what
you're talking about.

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It's courageous.

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We love to be courageous in
this country, murdering people.

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So anyway, I wrote
this poem when--

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and they all stand on
the bottom of the page.

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This is a poem I wrote
after Trump was elected.

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"Camisado."

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"After breaking in, the
wolf calmed the hens

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so he could take
his time with them,

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twist them open until the
right amount of memory

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fits into the song.

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Another high price
for belonging.

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Poetry is the
opposite of escape,

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but makes this world endurable.

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How the smallest puddle
reflects the entire sky.

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I return to every dream
our minds talked us out of,

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trusting our math of the star.

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Your hand around my shoulder.

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Poet astronaut, you
know I love you.

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I have no sense of
failure when I'm with you.

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Everything matters because
everything hurts someone

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somewhere as it is mattering.

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We became all we carried into
the mast, migratory patterns

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given to the love again.

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A way to end the
secrecy of suffering.

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Cut a door in the wolf so we can
retrieve our dead for a world

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that matters."

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