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This was a request by Paola.

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And I was thinking about
this poem the other day,

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and I was trying to
remember if it was real.

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Because the interesting
thing about being

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an artist for a long time,
and maybe many people

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have this experience, is
that once you write it down,

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that becomes the truth.

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And then you think, wait,
is that what happened,

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or did I turn that
into the poem?

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I think this is what happened.

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Service.

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Somewhere outside
of Albuquerque I

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was all fed up with the stories
of your ex-girlfriend's Guess

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billboard in New York City.

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And to make matters worse, I
had to pee like a racehorse,

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or like a girl who'd
had too much to drink

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way too far from home.

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You stopped at a
friend's body shop

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to talk about a buddy who was
stuck someplace in Mexico.

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You were talking, pulling
strings, and taking pulls off

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a brown bottle.

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And no one told me
where the restroom was.

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So I walked back to where
the hot rods were displayed

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like dogs ready for a fight,
baring their grills like teeth.

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I was hungry.

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The air smelled
like hot gasoline

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and that sweet carnation
smell of oil and coolant.

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A girl pitbull came
up and circled me

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as I circled the cars.

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She sniffed my ankles
like I was her kin,

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or on some kind
of rescue mission.

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You were still talking.

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Not a glance in
the direction of me

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and the bitch working
our ways around the

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souped up Corvettes
and the power tools.

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The pit was glossy, well cared
for, the queen of the car shop.

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And when she widened
her hind legs

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and squatted to pee all over one
of the car's dropped canvases,

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I took it as a challenge.

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[LAUGHS]

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That strong yellow stream seemed
to be saying, girl, no one's

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going to tell me
where to take a leak,

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or when to bow down,
when not to bite.

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So right then, in the dim
lights of the strange garage,

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I lifted my skirt and pissed
like the hard bitch I was.

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[LAUGHS]

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[APPLAUSE]

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[LAUGHS]

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Well, just a true story.

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