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And this last poem I spent about
a summer out in California,

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and my ex-boyfriend at the time
convinced me to go all the way

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up to Mosquito Lakes.

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And I said, but we
don't have bug dope.

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And he said, it's
just named that.

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And I said, are you sure?

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And we didn't take bug dope.

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And he was wrong.

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[LAUGHTER]

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Mosquito Lakes, California.

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Through wood and rock.

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Unfamiliar enough
to be familiar.

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I climb.

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Dusk creeps.

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Sniffs at my neck like
his hand on my zipper.

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A swarm of mosquitoes knock the
southern wind from my throat.

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The path, the water.

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It's lost.

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Then, makomin miigiwewin!

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A shock of bear berry.

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Even here.

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You're reaching for me.

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Chi Miigwech.

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[APPLAUSE]

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Thank you, Ana.

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Thank you.

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That was powerful.