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Ooh, it has a bookmark.

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Someone stopped
reading right there.

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[LAUGHS]

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Seeing we're right
here, I'm going

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to switch to The Hurting Kind.

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This is my most
recent collection.

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And it's so interesting,
writing poems.

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It's like you flipping
through pictures of yourself.

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This is a poem I
want to read about--

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Let's see if I can find
it before I announce it.

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[LAUGHS]

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This also has poems
I could cry during.

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And I just don't
want to do that.

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There is a time and
a place for crying,

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and it tends not to be in front
of people that may go home

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and say, oh, she
cried at her own poem.

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[LAUGHS]

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This is a poem that I wrote,
which is a revenge poem.

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And when I was eight
a woman came up

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to me after my parents'
divorce and said,

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I'm so sorry that you're
from a broken home now.

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And I was eight.

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And even I knew that
that's not something

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you should be telling a child.

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And if there's a
lesson in this, it's

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that it's never too
late for a revenge poem.

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[LAUGHS]

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But truthfully, it's
also a poem about letting

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go of unhelpful myths.

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Joint Custody.

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Why did I never see it for
what it was: abundance.

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Two families, two
different kitchen tables,

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two sets of rules, two
creeks, two highways,

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two stepparents with their
fish tanks, or eight tracks,

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or cigarette smoke, or
expertise, and recipes,

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or reading skills.

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I cannot reverse it.

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The records scratched
and stopping

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to that original chaotic track.

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But let me say, I was taken
back and forth on Sundays.

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And it was not easy, but
I was loved each place.

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And so I have two brains now,
two entirely different brains.

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The one that misses
where I'm not,

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and the one that is so
relieved to finally be home.

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[APPLAUSE]

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