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I'm going to do one more
from that early section.

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And this one is,
again, understanding

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the mindset of possession.

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Even the possession
of Indigenous bodies.

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I want to say this is
also an explanation of why

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I left University of
Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

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Ask me that when
I sign your book.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Taxonomy.

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The ancestors live in boxes now.

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I live squared-- only head.

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The world is blue
screen, is scream.

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Name something intact
without acronyms.

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Morning cormorant a silhouette--

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elongated in familiar,

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A routine of hunger then bulk.

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We swallow whole the impossible.

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No one feeds prettily.

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Avert your eyes, survive.

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The ancestors live in
white cardboard boxes.

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I am fasting.

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No newsfeed or rumor.

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Politics, a superspreader.

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How we shelter in non-places.

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Here the hooked bill of
the cormorant fields.

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I ignore the chat, have
exited the Zoom room.

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My dry throat opens to swallow,
convulses by reflex or instinct.

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Waterbirds, we live this story.

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Ancestors wait on shelves
in numbered boxes.

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They dive, propel
themselves with webbed feet,

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shaggy cormorant wings,
spread wide to dry.

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Perhaps we are not praying
when we lift our hands.

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[APPLAUSE]

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