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This is one that
I wrote in 2020.

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Yeah.

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I really do feel--

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the image of Marco Rubio is
just burned into my skull.

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I'm sorry.

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I can't not see it.

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This is one that I wrote in
2020 while we were all at home

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watching the protest in
Minnesota and Minneapolis,

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the city where I was born
and the city where Cameron

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spent a beautiful year of his
life, a city we loved dearly.

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Full of people we loved
dearly in the protests

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after the killing
of George Floyd.

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It's called Aaron Says
the World is Upside Down.

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Aaron says the world is
upside down, and it's true

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The cops are shooting
rubber bullets

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at even the blonde
journalists now

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The target is on fire, and
the Wells Fargo's shining face

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kicked in by white
boys with gas masks

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and hammers trying to
jump start their war

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And yet, the upside down
world is also, by definition,

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the same world

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Like that map that hung in
the hallway of the house

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where I lived three
or four lives ago

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Argentina at the top,
Greenland kissing its toes

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It was a metaphor,
someone explained,

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for seeing things another way

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So yes, if it is true that
another killer cops killed

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another Black child's father,

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Another unauthorized chokehold,
another no charge again

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If once more riot gear again

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Budget once again

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Gas station

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More flames

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More who's to blame
gets blamed again

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If again and again,
it is the same,

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then it holds that the
opposite must also be true

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The so-called opposite world,
a food drop-off stations,

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a phone trees of bailouts
and carry an extra mask

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The world of kneeling for
a stranger's gift of milk

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to flush the tear gas

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The world of saying
a thing in unison

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so clear it drills a hole
through to the other side

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of what is possible

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So clear and wholly inverted we
realize it's been here all along

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Oh kingdom of fire,

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Oh kingdom of food

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With the same mouth
we take your blessings

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With the same mouth we
pronounce you-- come

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[APPLAUSE]

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