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And this last poem
that I'm going to read

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is actually a poem
from this week.

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It's our-- Kim asked us to think
about the nations inside of us.

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And when I thought about that,
my grandpa and his brothers,

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they were mechanics.

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And they made their
living by fixing cars.

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And so that meant that there
was a lot of car bodies

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around my house my entire life.

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And I think it's nice to think
about the idea of repurposing

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or something being
stripped to its essence.

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And so that's what I was
thinking about with this poem.

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The nation inside me is
glossed in copper tinsel

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and turns the eye
towards the shaded.

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Tire carcass, blessed
in bergamot buds,

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glitter lakes that go
strange in the sun.

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A rainbow muck
inglorious on gravel.

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In my nation of tin
breakers and tinker men.

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Oil light revved in their gums.

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We expose our ventricles.

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Let any looker see this yard of
empty verbiage for what it says.

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Here are the strippings
undressed to the beam.

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Miigwech.

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[APPLAUSE]

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