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To Be a Burning Woman, for
my Grandma Mimi and Melissa

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Etheridge.

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[LAUGHTER]

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You were likely my age on a bar
stool in Que Sera, Long Beach,

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nursing a beer, gazing at
your girls' marine cut.

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Friends circle the stage to wait
for Melissa before her fame.

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They're on their feet
whistling in the dark.

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The joy, the guts.

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On your 71st birthday we're
at her concert in Milwaukee.

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Melissa walks on stage in a
white hat, a red feather tucked

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into the band.

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Her gun smoke sound slips
through me like grease.

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Oh, I feel the need
to scream, to blush.

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To be a burning woman.

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[APPLAUSE]

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