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So I mentioned the braid
in that poem, and then

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I'll mention it in this.

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So now comes the point
where I get to do the show

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and tell part.

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So the cover of the book
is actually my braid

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and my arm holding it.

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So if that gives
an illustration.

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In the Event of My Death.

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What used to be
a rope descending

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my vertebrae to the basement
of my spine grows thin.

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In solidarity with
my first chemotherapy

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our cat leaves her whiskers
on the hardwood floor.

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I gather them, each
pure white parenthesis,

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and plant them in the
throat of the Earth.

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In quarantine, I learned to
trim your barbarian hair.

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Now, it stands always on end,
a salute to my superior barbary

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skills.

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In the event of
my death, promise

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you will find my heavy
braid and bury it.

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I will need a rope to let
me down into the Earth.

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I've hidden others
strategically around the globe.

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A net to catch my
body in its weaving.

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