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OK.

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So I will be reading
to you tonight

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from my book of
poems called Standing

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in the Forest of Being Alive.

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And it will be an exciting
time for all of us,

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because you have a
selection of poems

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that will appear on the screen
before me and to my side.

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But in point of fact, I could
not find which poems they are.

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So we will-- I will be learning
right alongside of you tonight.

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[LAUGHTER]

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I put it in a place where
I would be sure to find it.

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[LAUGHTER]

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That's always a
good idea, right?

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[LAUGHS] So this is called "Why
Write Love Poetry in a Burning

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World."

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"Why Write Love Poetry
in a Burning World."

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"To train myself to find
in the midst of hell

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What isn't hell.

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The body bald

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Cancerous but still

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Beautiful enough to

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Imagine living the body

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Washing the body

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Replacing a loose front

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Porch step the body chewing

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What it takes to
keep a body going--

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This scene has a tune

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A language I can read a door

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I cannot close I stand

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Within its wedge

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A shield.

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Why write love poetry
in a burning world?

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To train myself in the
midst of a burning world

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To offer poems of love
to a burning world."

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