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Thank you so much, Farid.

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That was so generous.

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I'm very moved.

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Thank you.

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Thank you, Tyler and Paola
and the Poetry Center.

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Thank you for coming here on
a Thursday evening for poetry.

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I'm going to keep my phone
so I have my eye on the time.

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I did not prepare my set.

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I prepared-ish.

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So you can hear me, right?

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It feels weird to
have this here.

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I'm just going to--
is it OK if I do this?

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Yeah.

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So it's not like--

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yeah, I think because
there is time tonight,

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I thought I'd take you
through a few books of mine

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and start at the
beginning, which

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is-- this is my baby
poet book, To Live

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in Autumn, my first book.

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I look at so many poems now,
and I want to revise them,

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but we must love our
older poems as well

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and extend tenderness
towards them.