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I'm just going to read one
more poem that is also new.

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I've been thinking
a lot about desire

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so maybe something
a little less heavy

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than what I've been sharing.

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Flight Path.

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Today is a good day,
the first in a while,

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And I want to unbutton
the sleeves of desire.

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Open all the windows
and let April in.

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It's musty as hell in here.

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Let the sun take me

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By the shoulders
and kiss the grooves

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Of my collarbones.

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I'm alive and I have an appetite

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For longing.

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So let them all in-- the birds,

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The strays.

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Even the things that buzz

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In my ear.

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A fly dizzies past, languid,

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Then promptly forgets
the open window.

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He knocks again
and again, louder

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And louder, against
the warm glass,

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Looking for escape.

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God, to make a nuisance

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Of my want until it's
all anyone hears.

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To make my yearning
known as I circle

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A room.

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I admire this lust for
life, so I let him live.

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I fan him through the
window with a dust

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Rag like I'm waving
goodbye to a lover.

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When I walk by the
week-old box of oranges,

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I cause a commotion.

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A shadow of fruit flies

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Lifts then disperses.

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A dead one floats

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In my glass.

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The smell of rot
sharpens each day,

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Rings of blue mold
appearing one by one

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Until whole oranges turn ashen.

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Let them.

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Desire is not without casualty.

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I'm amazed that every
insect that finds

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Its way in, makes it to water--

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The silverfish in
the sink, the gnat

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Hovering over the
dripping faucet.

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It's a superpower,
a heightened nose

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For that which they
cannot live without.

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I'd be lying if I said
I never drowned them.

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Sometimes I want spectacle.

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I drop each silver orange down

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The drain and watch
the spores erupt.

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Thank you.

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[CHEERING]

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