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I have one last poem
I'd like to read.

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It's very hard when people
bring up the Star Trek poems

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to not read at least one.

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I do have to while I look
for my bookmark that I lost.

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Tell you that when after I
sent in the final version

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of the book, I realized
that, at first,

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the poems had spanned multiple
different editions of Star Trek.

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So there was Voyager and
Enterprise references.

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But then I did the editing.

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And only Voyager poems
were in the book.

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But Enterprise
was still the name

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of the ship in the
lost and found section.

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And I have to tell
people that depending

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on the audience so that they
I know I made a mistake.

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I know there are many.

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Exhibit B, unfiled
correspondence.

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Stardate, 2373.

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Dear Chakotay,
simply I loved you

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like the captain loves you, in
sidelong glances, in unreality.

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How could I not?

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You, with your tattoo,
a professional.

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You, lost in light
years away from home,

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and yet you believe your
ancestors guide you.

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I've watched you close your eyes
to contact your spirit guides.

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It was more intimate
than a kiss.

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I wanted to learn to
pray the same way.

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Oh, Chakotay, if you'd
asked, I would have joined

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the Marquis to be with you.

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I would have left my sun
and moon to follow you

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into uncharted space.

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I'd even adopt the Doctrine
of Discovery for you.

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I'd imagined us standing
on deck quoting Picard.

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I imagined us daring
each other to boldly go

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where no one's gone before.

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I wanted to want you because
you were a wanted Indian,

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someone I wanted to be.

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Chakotay, how my heart broke
when I realized each night,

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with your cold cream
and your washcloth,

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you un-tattoo your face before
you fall asleep, unreddened,

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unmarked.

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PS, my heart, my red, red heart.

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Chin'an.

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Thank you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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