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So this next poem
has not found a home.

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And I don't feel a
kind of way about it.

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[CHUCKLES] But there's been
so many articles about people

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feeling kind of
singular in the world.

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And I was grappling
with feeling singular,

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but also, I was thinking about
apples and the Garden of Eden.

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And so this is my
contribution to singularity

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and that feeling in the world.

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"Lentils."

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Seems like hours, me in
this packaged paradise

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Supermarket lights,
sunbeam round

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glaring onto plastic products

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Ship shined and clean

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Such emptiness, such desolation

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The lone cashier
with hollow eyes

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The floor a bright
mirror of nothing

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No noise, not even music

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This morning, I read a
story about a woman in love

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with a robot

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She sets two plates on
a table at mealtime,

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Believes they get on rather well

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Maybe the robot
has skills in bed,

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or maybe, there's
wealth to be had

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Whatever the case,
can I ask if we still

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have need for one another?

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Or maybe what I'm
asking is, have we

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lost the need for ourselves?

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Has the body become
both shore and sea?

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Is the sea in a
perpetual retreat?

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I'm searching for a
bag of seeds for soup

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Ain't nobody around
to help me find it

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But a ray of sun
from the ceiling

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shines on manmade apples
stacked in a perfect triangle

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I'm alone, let me eat one
and end this story quick

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[APPLAUSE]

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