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And take my Little
Marco Rubio moment here.

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[LAUGHS]

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Thanks for laughing at my joke.

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Tyler, I appreciate you.

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[LAUGHS]

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I want to read one
from Soft Science

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from my second book, which I
haven't read in a long time,

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but Cameron was reminding me
of this one earlier today.

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And man, the news, especially
out of Minneapolis,

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but everywhere has just
been really on my heart,

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and breaking my heart every
morning when I wake up.

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So this one's called
You're So Paranoid.

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It's for Jose,
who is a guy who I

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knew when I was living
in Vermont briefly, who

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got deported back to Guatemala.

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A wall of cops moves like a wall
of water on a barge, no beauty.

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A wall of iron swallows the
woman who falls to the ground,

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and keeps falling.

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There's a video.

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The picture stays intact again.

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It's not pretty, meaning
it's hard to watch.

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When a poet says, we have
to keep our eyes open,

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I know who he's talking to.

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I don't listen.

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I listen long
enough to hate him.

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If I say the woman
dragged by her hair.

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If I compare it, I witnessed,
meaning stood by the window,

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meaning shuddered.

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Let hand fall gently over lips.

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Pulled coat tight, tighter.

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A wall of cops bucks
like a frightened boar.

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If I describe it, will it speak?

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If I say it came furtive
and dressed in red,

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the cops think cop thoughts.

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The cops move.

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They walk like a
walk, like an economy,

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which, after all, is a
fairy bucking with hunger,

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not pretty, not picture.

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I follow the Border Patrol
agent through the airport,

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thinking fast thoughts,
bloodfast, bloodhound steps.

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He buys a burrito.

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If I say he stood alive in line.

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And my friends are afraid
to leave their bathrooms.

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My friends who I
love and, love and.

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My friends, who eat
from plates, who plug

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cords into machines for singing.

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If I say a wall of men
standing on my friends' necks,

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if I describe it.

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My friends, who
slice plums illegally

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on soccer fields, whose knees
move like knees into the grass.

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If I name the grass.

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If I call sweet
liquor and smoke.

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If I say cloy.

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If the child shrieks
as she swung.

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If the sun.

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If August.

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If blue juice, will it talk?

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The cops are thinking
cop thoughts.

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They move with a wall inside
them, answering machines

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answering.

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The window rattles,
and I fall to my knees.

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If I hoist my friends
up so they can be seen.

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By whom?

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If I say they are beautiful.

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If I compare.

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If the sun touches the
glass, and I feel it.

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I try to hear the Border
Patrol agent order his food.

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I listen long enough,
then walk to my gate.

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I feel ashamed, and
put it in my sleeve.

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And later, I make it a
picture, like everything.

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The wall moves like a fairy,
like a woman through an airport,

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like a wall.

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If I say I watch the woman
brought down by her hair,

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and watched the woman cry.

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And cried.

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If the storm skips
my door again.

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If I leave to kill another goat.

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If I promise my crop.

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If I paint the wall up
and down in sacred W's.

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If I make it any color, will
someone put it in her mouth?

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If I close my eyes, imagine it.

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If I imagine it.

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If I think of something to say?

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The cop speaks, and I call
a plum into his mouth.

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It doesn't shut him up.

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The cop kneels in the
grass below my friends.

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My friends crowned
with August and salt.

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My marigold, my wave.

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They laugh like a branch laughs.

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They make machines for singing.

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If I say a palm in
the small of the back.

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If I say sun-warmed glass.

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If I say sunglass breaking.

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Open the gate.

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Thanks.

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[APPLAUSE]

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