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A couple more references
for this poem.

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There's a reference to a resin,
a particular technique, Barniz

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de Pasto, which
was practiced, is

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and was practiced by
Indigenous communities

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in the savannas of Colombia.

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When Spanish colonists arrived
to colonize that region,

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they were very taken
by this technique

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because it approximated
the lacquered boxes of Asia

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that they so coveted.

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And so they conscripted local
folks to make the resin.

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You have to stretch it
from your mouth and fingers

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to get it thin enough.

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Forgive me for this,
but it's relevant.

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NoFap is a notion of
controlling your desire

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to masturbate,
specifically when it's

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marshaled by right-wing
groups like the Proud Boys.

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The ideology behind it is if you
could only control your desire

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to masturbate, you could
then control your women,

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and then you could
control your household,

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and then you could
control your neighborhood,

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and then you could
control your town,

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and then you could
control your state,

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and then you could
control your nation.

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And this is for my friend,
the Palestinian-American poet,

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Fady Joudah.

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Scale Up

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Dignified or bruised by looking
at an inflatable swan in my pool

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As large as our times, there's
all ancestors to scale up

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Desert heat waves folding
air forward and back

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into a fixed point

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A hold on our mothers'
adulthood like it's the thing

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From which most of
time will run away

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With the purest
gold rings I inherit

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My grandmother's
bracelet stamped

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with the scales of snakes

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We had so much ideas,
tasks, that don't really

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ask for names to burn in some
America's idea of presentness

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So now what inheritance should
make me feel terribly enjoined

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to the bros of first settlement

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When every day still in a day--
in their dedicated habit for one

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another men love me

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Asking about my American
sentence shapes like barefoot

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sweet thing, Proud Boys,
NoFap, The New York Times

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And don't these
amount to nothing

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but a people's bad examples
of transiting elements

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Now crush the buds
in the old way

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In boiling water to make the
resin stretched with a friend

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into thinning sheets from
our mouths and fingers

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Comes a lacquer where we could
render any of the pretender gods

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Scaled to look small and
distant in the layers

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of polish and depth

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The men hoped our treatments
would lend to local wood

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As generously as the
phrase cultivate your power

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Brings news to each
next theater of war

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Resting in my nerve to write
about tear gas by way of drone

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And the lacquered frame of my
mirror wanting to be polished

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And now say enjoyable morning

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To have left a nation's bed

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Shining basically eagle-shaped

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Tasting of a sugar
that delays what sweet

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Sorry, not sorry, for
the dirt on my feet

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