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[AUDIENCE CLAPPING]

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Yeah.

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All right.

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This is the two poem warning.

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I don't know if it's going
to get any happier, though.

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But you've made it this far.

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"Up the road."

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--bakery, pizza place
with large parking lot,

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county middle school/high
school complex,

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raiments of the working class,
driveway after driveway.

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If you come from the south,

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come slow, take the
business road, don't miss

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our exit, a pill or two.

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Take as much money as you can

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home with two bedrooms,
one for your daughters.

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Give them anything
they can imagine.

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In this place

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you come up on coffee
and screams, writing out

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the morning, a tiny history.

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What institution

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did your family lean against?

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Big engine of unions,

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my grandfather, an
official for the Democrats.

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Brown newspaper photograph,

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hair slicked back and ice

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lines the street
as I write these.

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The streets should be shorter

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sentences between us.

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We could string

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aren't you curious you beautiful

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breath, sky, hills not too far

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from now, the rain sounds
like paper crumbling.

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Bring your daughters
to this place.

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tell them there was
something special,

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tell them we were
something special,

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our struggle has
too few chroniclers.

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