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"Tintype."

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I'm from Texas originally.

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I spent a part of my childhood
in the Piney Woods of East Texas

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with my mother's mother.

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I love those Piney Woods.

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They're dangerous and deep.

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They're beautiful and haunting.

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My Aunt Tinny was
a blues singer.

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This is called "Tintype--

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Thunderstorm in Palestine,
Texas, 3:00 PM."

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Tin roof, ten teeth, three
gold, as if from a tin pan

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in a slow creek, drawing
mud, calling up catfish

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from the muck, and that
skinny man, Aunt Tinny's man,

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never married, married man.

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He's got his head thrown back.

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Eyes closed for
his daily claim--

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the way she pulls the
hurt right out of him,

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like a long-splinter whose
release almost feels good.

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Real good.

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He cooks but doesn't eat.

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Doesn't need anything but what
he took years back and keeps

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shacked in front of him.

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A woman tinned her own
cans back there, back then,

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and burned trash
in the backyard.

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You think I don't know who I am?

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Tin-tonguing the
gap between there--

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listening with my hands stuck
to my chest and the ring

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shout of my own feet-- and now.

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"Tin cutter.

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Just like me" to
hear Tinny tell it.

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Once you've sat on that
sweat-stained couch,

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pot-liquor spotted, love-marked
cushions frayed to failing,

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and listened to her
pound the upright's keys,

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some tan and half-rotted, black.

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Barely standing, and
the bench barely able

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to hold her tin-haired
self, you won't be right.

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She'll mess you up if you
stay too long, tin man.

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That wail wrapping
its arms around you,

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its legs like a weighted trap.

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You'll cry for your mother.

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You'll cry like you've never
cried before. 'Course you will.

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Taking in what
can't be taken in.

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Won't matter who you were.

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If you listen, she'll
give it to you anyway,

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your heart rolled in her
mouth, ten-times the measure,

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over days like one long road of
night, cold and hard as hail."

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[APPLAUSE]

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