Rudy Francisco – Live at Icehouse
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Rudy Francisco, performing at Icehouse in Minneapolis, MN.
Transcript provided by YouTube:
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what’s up minneapolis how are we doing
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before I say anything else can we clap
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it up for our hosts and everybody who’s
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touched stage so far yeah and also also
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a big shout out to the people who run
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button poetry they believe that I could
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write a book before I believe that I
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could so can we give a huge hands clap
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hand clap for them please thank you all
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right so I’m gonna do some poems right
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throughout these poems if you like what
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you hear you don’t have to be silent
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this isn’t golf you can respond right
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you can do a few things right if you
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like what you hear you can snap your
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fingers this trys together we can snap
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our fingers right that’s easy that’s a
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little old-school love Jones but you
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wanna do that that’s fine right you can
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respond bocalee you can say oh let’s try
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oh you can say what you can say let’s go
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you know so throwing an Amen hallelujah
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ooh kill him turn up that’s my best
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friend facts any of those are completely
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fine are we ready have you ready for the
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first poem say let’s go
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and the article says the Mexican
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government confiscates approximately
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30,000 illegal firearms per year when
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the guns are taken they get dismantled
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and the metal is used to make other
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types of weapons that will later be
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utilized by their military in 2012 pedro
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reyes an artist from Mexico City
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convinced his government to donate the
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guns to him and he turned them into
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musical instruments so somewhere there’s
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a tambourine a drum set a guitar all
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made out of things that we use to take
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people’s lives but now they create a
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sound that puts life back into people’s
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bodies which is to say a weapon will
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always be a weapon but we choose how we
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fight the war and from this I learned
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and from this I learned that even the
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most destructive instruments can still
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create a melody worth dancing to and
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sometimes don’t we also call that a
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battle I wonder how long it took took
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events the first rifle that it can hold
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a note instead of a bullet but still
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fire into a crowd and make everyone move
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when I was six when I was six I was
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taught how to throw a punch in the 80s
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that was the anti-bullying movement the
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first time the first time one of my
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classmates took a yo mama joke a little
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too far I remembered my training so I
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turned his nose into a fountain my fist
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five pennies I closed my eyes made a
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wish I came home with bloody knuckles
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and it was the first piece of artwork my
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family hung on the fridge I remember
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staring at my hands the same way you
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stare at a mid-term when all your
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answers are correct I didn’t know what
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class this was but I did know I was
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passing and isn’t that what masculinity
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has become a bunch of dudes afraid of
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their own feelings terrified of any
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emotion other than anger constantly
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yelling at the shadows on the wall but
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still haven’t realized that were the
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ones standing in front of the light we
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learn how to dodge a jab we learn how to
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step in before we swing we learn the
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heart is the same size as the fists but
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we keep forgetting they don’t have the
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same functions we keep telling each
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man the up we don’t know what the
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that even means we turn our boys we
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turn our boys into bayonets we point
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them in the wrong direction we pull
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their triggers and then we just ignore
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all the damage they’re doing in the
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distance the word repurpose it means to
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take an object and give it a Mesa it
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means to make something forget what it’s
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been trained to do so you can use it for
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a better reason I am learning that this
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body is not a shotgun I am learning that
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this body is not a pistol I am learning
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that a man is not defined by what he can
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destroy I am learning that a person who
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only knows how to fight can only
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communicate in violence and that
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shouldn’t be anyone’s first language I’m
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learning the difference the difference
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between a garden and a graveyard is only
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what you choose to put in the ground you
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see once once I came across a picture of
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a strange-looking violin the caption
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said that it was made out of a rifle I
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some day that could be me thank you
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how we know we good all right next home
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can’t do a love poem is that alright
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alright here we go so quick story right
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um so me and my dad we didn’t have a
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good relationship growing up so we
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didn’t really talk a whole lot so what’s
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crazy I don’t know a whole lot about my
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father even though we lived in the same
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house right and um about like six months
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ago or so because we’ve gotten to a much
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better place so like every now and then
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like when like I’m at his house like
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we’re doing like yard work or whatever
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and I’m just asking him just all kind of
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questions because it’s like I said I
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don’t know much about him and it’s crazy
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cuz we’re learning a lot about each
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other and I’m learning a lot about
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myself through the process right so um a
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while ago we were pulling weeds and and
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my middle name is Khayyam right and and
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I’d asked them I was like um like how
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did you come up with the name Khayyam so
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he’s pulling weeds and he’s like oh I
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named you after my favorite poet and
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then he goes back to pulling weeds and I
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was like I’m sorry what
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he was like yeah um I read a poem by
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this guy named Omar Khayyam and I
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thought the name was cool so I chose to
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give you the name and then he went back
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to pulling weeds and I was like you do
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realize I do poetry he’s like oh yeah
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like we’re having a moment like crazy
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alright so love poem um this is a medley
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right all of these are also in the book
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so here we go first part of this poem is
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called – the girl who works at Starbucks
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down the street from my house on Del Mar
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Heights Road swear to God
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I’m not a stalker that’s the title when
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I asked you for a chai latte what I
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meant to say was I was walking past I
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saw you in the window to be honest I
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only came in here because I had to know
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what your voice sounded like instead of
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saying that I got really nervous and
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ordered the first thing on the menu I
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don’t even know what I is or a latte for
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that matter I imagined that when God
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made you I bet he costs for the first
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time I bet he turned to an angel gave
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him a high-five and said god damn I’m
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or me damn I’m good cuz he’s like God
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right I spent the last five days trying
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to figure out how I’m gonna do some I
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self to you properly I finally figured
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it out it’s gonna be something like hi
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that’s all I got so far but I think it’s
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I’m gonna be honest it’s not often that
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I find myself eager to write about love
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in fact every time I try to write about
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love my hands cramp just to show me how
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painful love can be sometimes my pencils
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break just to prove to me that every now
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and then love takes a little more work
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I heard that love is blind so I’ll write
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all my poems in Braille and my palms are
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never actually finished because true
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love is endless I’ve always believed
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that real love is kind of like a
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supermodel before she’s airbrush it’s
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pure and imperfect just the way that God
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intended I’m gonna be honest I’m not
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much of a love poet but if I was to wake
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up tomorrow morning and decide that I
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love my first poem it would be about you
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about how I love you the same way I
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learned how to ride a bike scared but
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reckless with no training wheels or
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elbow pads so my scars can tell the
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story of how I fell for you I’m gonna be
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honest I’m not much of a love poet but
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if I was I’d write about how I see your
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face in every cloudy reflection in every
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window you see I’ve written a million
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poems hoping that somehow maybe some way
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you’ll jump out of the page and be
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closer to me see I’m not much of a love
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poet but if I was I’d write about how
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you have the audacity to be beautiful
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even on days when everything around you
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is ugly I’d write about your eyelashes
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and how they are like violin strings
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that plays symphonies every time you
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blink if I was a love poet I’d write
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about how I’m melt in front of you like
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an ice sculpture every time I hear the
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vibration and your voice and whenever I
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see a name on the caller ID my heart
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plays hopscotch inside of my chest it
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climbs onto my ribs like monkey bars and
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I feel like a child all over again and I
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was gonna sound weird but sometimes I
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prayed that God somehow turns you back
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into one of my ribs just so I would
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never have to spend an entire day
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without you I swear I’m usually not a
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love poet but if I was to wake up
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tomorrow morning and decide that I was
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gonna write about love my first poem it
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would be about you and after all of that
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she was like but how do you feel about
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and I said put it like this I want to be
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your ex-boyfriend stuntman I want to do
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everything he never had the courage to
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do like trust you see last night I had a
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dream in this particular dream I died in
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my dreams awoke not knowing I was still
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asleep and decided to walk see that
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night I walked in my sleep I slept in my
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Walker walk backwards until I saw you
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for the first time and I could barely
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muster the courage to introduce myself
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all over again you see I’ve been trying
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to find the right words I’ve been trying
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to take the right steps who it seems to
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me like thousands of years but something
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always seems to go wrong between us we
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lived in Egypt I was the Pharaoh’s slave
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you were his daughter loving you led to
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my death that claimed I seduced you and
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after they stole my life I was
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resurrected as the Mason I made the
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foundation for your house we met eyes
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for two seconds you left and I didn’t
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see you again until I died I came back
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as a caterpillar I turned into a
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butterfly I landed in the palm of your
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hands you brushed me away in the
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rejection killed me when I woke up was a
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kick drum you were a snare we were both
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owned by this drummer named cozy : when
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he died so did we but I came back just
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to look for you I left notes and random
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places hoping that you would stumble
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across them I carved our names in trees
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and then praised it would jog your
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memory I whispered your name in the wind
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hoping somehow maybe some way my voice
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would reach you but it didn’t then I
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died I died early I died young with
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bread crumbs in my hand just hoping that
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she would find me but you never did so
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they buried me when they buried me they
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put these coins over my eyes and I use
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them as bus fare to get back to earth
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just so I could look for you
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that’s why that’s why sometimes when we
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hold hands every so often
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I hold on a little too tight and I’m
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sorry I just don’t want to lose you
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again my mother told me when you find
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the perfect woman you got to do whatever
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it takes to make sure she stays next to
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how’re we doing we good so um this next
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poem so uh one day I was I was driving
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in downtown San Diego and I saw a man he
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was holding a sign and when I got close
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enough to see what was on the sign it
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said God hates gays right so my friends
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in the passenger see he sees me see the
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sign right and he sees that I’m like
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noticeably like angry about it right and
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then he turns to me and he’s like why
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are you so mad about that that doesn’t
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have anything to do with you right so I
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tell him I say if we only concern
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ourselves with the things that directly
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affect us we’re gonna be very surprised
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at what indirectly affects us later
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right and what and what I mean by that
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is that often people have marginalized
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groups feel like their struggles are
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completely different when if we actually
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take the time to dialogue across margins
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we will realize that our struggles are
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far similar than they are different
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right so so I went home right and I
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wrote this poem as a letter to this man
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holding the sign so you ready for the
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poem say let’s go you know it’s funny
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how we can believe that we are created
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in God’s image and then recreate God in
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ours a letter to the man standing on the
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corner holding a sign that said God
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hates gays you know I’ve never seen
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exactly who it is that you paperclip
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your knees melts your hands together and
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pray to but I think I know what he looks
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like a bunch of gods about 510
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Betty weighs 185 he probably stands the
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way a high school diploma does when it’s
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next to a GED I bet you God
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bicha God has a mullet I bet he wears
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flannel shirts with no sleeves the fanny
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pack and says words like get er done a
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mr. Kyle plays the banjo I bet he
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watches FoxNews Dog the Bounty Hunter
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voted for Donald Trump and loves Bill
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O’Reilly a bunch of God’s a politician
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from Arizona I bet his high school
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served racism in the cafeteria and
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offered hate speech as a second language
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everybody has a swastika on the inside
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of his throat and racial slurs tattooed
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to his tongue just to make intolerance
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more comfortable in his mouth I bet he
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has a burning cross as a middle finger
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and Jim Crow underneath his nails your
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God is a Confederate flags wet dream
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conceived on his count a day when the
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sky decided to slice her own wrist a
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a God has a drinking problem I bet
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he sees the bottom of a shot glass more
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often than his own children I bet he
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pours whiskey on his dreams until they
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taste like good ideas probably cusses
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like an electric guitar with rats
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plugged into an ocean I bet he yells
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like a schizophrenic nail gun damaging
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all things that care about him enough to
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get closer but there were angels in
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heaven with black eyes and broken halos
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who claimed they fell down the stairs I
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bet your god a of God would’ve
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made Eve without a mouth and taught her
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how to spread her legs like a magazine
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that she will never be pretty enough to
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be in sooner or later you’ll realize
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that you are praying to your own shadow
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that you are standing in front of
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mirrors and works to bring your own
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reflection your gods stole my God’s
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identity so next time you bend your
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knees next time you bow your head I want
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you to tell your God that my god is
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looking for him thank you
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so all of those are in the book but I
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wanted to read a couple things that are
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not memorized but are also in the book
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how y’all feelin y’all good good okay
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so I was working on a project with a
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friend of mine he asked me to write
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something because we’re having a really
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interesting dialogue about about the
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environment right a lot of things that
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are happening and um I live in
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California San Diego to be exact and
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we’re going through a drought right now
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and it’s it’s actually kind of
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terrifying right because like like
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they’re asking us like to like monitor
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how much water we’re using you know
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there that’s going to like water our
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lawns less and of course like these are
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things that are like totally like doable
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right but it was since we’re putting
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precautions in place like it makes me
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nervous about like okay like how much
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longer can we live the way that we are
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living because the way that we’re living
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isn’t sustainable right so here we go in
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one of my earliest memories I am eight
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years old I have a fistful of afternoon
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and I’m asking the summer if it will
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always be this glorious I remember
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taking a deep breath trying to get as
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much July into my lungs as humanly
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possible thinking maybe I’d be able to
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convince it that 31 days just isn’t
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enough in my neighborhood owning a slip
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and slide made you a royal family in my
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neighborhood we’d fill up our super
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soakers and shoot each other for hours
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and if you didn’t have one you were just
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a target in my neighborhood in my
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neighborhood we’d run through the
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sprinklers like someone who wasn’t the
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boss of us said that we couldn’t back
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then the water just seemed endless
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like he didn’t have limits and corners
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and edges but no matter where we were if
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we called out for water it would just
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come running when I was a kid dragons
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and droughts were two things I read
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about in books we never thought I’d
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actually have to deal with I’m born and
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raised in California and here our models
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and our rivers look like they’re both on
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the same diet throughout the years I’ve
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watched both get smaller and now I can
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see their ribs when they exhale in
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freeways are decorated with signs that
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asked us to be careful about how we use
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the water they hang like an eviction
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notice from the environment and I wonder
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how long it will take the planet to tell
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us we can’t live here and the locks are
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changed I wonder how long it’ll be
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before my shower becomes a relic before
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my sink tries to change occupations
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before the knobs on my faucet become
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roulette wheels before my hands rain
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dance around the spout hoping a drop
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will spill from its neck I wonder if the
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next generation will know water the same
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way I did the way it runs through the
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fingers the way it wrinkles the hands
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cools the skin the way it freezes flakes
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and kisses the ground on the cheek I
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wonder if my grandkids will ever throw a
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penny in a fountain and hear it splash
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how’re we doing we still good what’s my
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time looking like right now how long
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have I been up here good thing – teen
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minutes left I’ve been up here for 15
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minutes okay awesome awesome how we
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doing we still good word alright so um
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next phone so uh I wrote this poem back
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in 2009 right maybe even a little bit
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earlier than that and um so the poem
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that I read earlier the love poem right
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was about a girl that I was dating back
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when we were dating and that ended
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really badly right and I was just I was
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super heartbroken and I needed a way to
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kind of process all of those emotions
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and I wrote this all in like one sitting
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after it all happened so of poem here we
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one if I could I would nail these hands
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to the edges of stars I would sacrifice
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this body to the sky hoping a resurrect
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is someone spiteful enough to not care
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this much about you to staple me to a
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cross pierce my side with the broken
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promise and I will bleed all the reasons
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why you deserve one more chance
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three loving you was the last thing I
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felt really good at for you want to know
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how I got these scars well I ripped
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every last piece of you out of my smile
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five I whispered you Stardust six I
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spoke you into sunflower seven I dipped
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in my hands in forever I touched you
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infinity treated you as if you were the
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last molecule of oxygen inside of a gas
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chamber I was good to you eight you want
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to know how I got these scars I
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swallowed my pride then it clawed its
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way out of my mouth nine I realized that
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I was never really your boyfriend I was
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your height man ten hope your next
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boyfriend gets small pots ten yes I said
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smallpox ten I hate you ten but I still
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miss you ten and I still love you ten
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and I still love you ten and I still
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love you ten it’s hard for me to count
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when I get emotional ten i heard that
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over 90 I heard that open 90% of human
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interaction is nonverbal so
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10 if I could I would tie your arms to a
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dais room and then auction you off to my
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fondest memories to the random dude who
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started dating my ex-girlfriend two days
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after we broke up yes I saw that on
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Facebook now when I realized that you
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were in a relationship with the girl
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that I thought I would spend the rest of
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my life with I walked outside I said to
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myself there’s no way Aston Kutcher is
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gonna catch me off guard I waited 45
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minutes and then I realized there hadn’t
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been a new episode of Punk’d in almost
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four years I guess I’m the only
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practical joke in this entire situation
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one the first time I saw you and her in
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a picture I wanted to take my entire arm
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shove it inside of the computer and
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snatch the happiness right off of your
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face – if I ever see you in the street I
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might punch you in the throat 3 I
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apologize in advance and I know that it
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makes no sense to have this much anger
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toward a man that I’ve never met face to
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face my definition of love is being
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robbed in an alley 8 times in Rome and
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hoping there’s something about today
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that makes all of this different there
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was nothing logical about cutting off
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the most important parts of yourself and
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then putting them inside of hands that
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shake that tremble and cracked like a
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Haitian sidewalk for there is nothing
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rational about love love stutters when
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it gets nervous love strips over its own
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shoelaces love is clumsy and my heart
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refuses to wear a helmet 5 Cupid is
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and I’m tired of him using me for target
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practice six I was told that time heals
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all wounds but what exactly do do on
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days when it feels like the hands on
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your clock have arthritis seven she
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always wore her heart on her sleeve so
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tell me why the hell do you look so
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eight I think I’ve seen you somewhere in
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her smile like I’ve heard your voice in
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her laughter I bet if we dusted her
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heart for fingerprints we would only
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find yours nine I have this envelope
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it’s full of all the butterflies that I
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felt the first time she smiled in my
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direction I think most of them are still
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I guess these belong to you too thank
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how’re we doing we still good all right
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summer read probably two more out of the
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book and then that’ll be my time okay
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okay so I’m getting older right and
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things are starting to hurt on my body
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so I wrote a poem about it here we go
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yesterday I injured myself and the
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explanation didn’t make sense I said
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well I was walking and that was the end
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at this age my body is a stranger that I
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keep meeting over and over again the
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words I am are slowly transforming into
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I used to be because every year
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past-tense finds a larger house inside
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the neighborhood of my everyday
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vernacular I am slowly realizing that
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when the skeleton is new and the bones
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are vibrant they course the mind into
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thinking that the days will pass but the
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flesh will not youth promises us
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immortality but doesn’t have the means
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to uphold its end of the bargain thank
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you see let me see let me see
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let’s read all right so it’s last one no
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actually I’ll read this one that’ll read
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something after it sound good all right
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so um so I’ve been you know uh kind of
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like struggling with you know like I’ve
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been struggling with depression you know
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when I when I tell people when people
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ask me like what it’s like touring and
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whatnot right it’s it’s hard to explain
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I’m an introvert once I don’t really I
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don’t really like interact with people a
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whole lot on my own time right most of
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the interactions I have with people are
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like during shows because like I just
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feel tired after I interact with people
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and I just need to take a nap you know
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but what’s really odd about like
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traveling and performing and doing shows
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is that this it’s like I tell people
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that it’s kind of like having somebody
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like at your house for a few days and
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then when they leave and you walk back
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into your house and you’re the only one
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there that’s what it feels like every
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time you’re done performing because you
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talk to people right and then everybody
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leaves and then you’re alone again and
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it’s just odd feeling if you have to
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readjust to like being a person you know
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and I know that’s hard to grasp but
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that’s it’s kind of how it feels so I
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wrote this poem a little while ago and I
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want to share it when people ask how I’m
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doing I want to say my depression is an
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angry deity a jealous God a thirsty
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shadow that rings my joy like a dishrag
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and makes juice out of my smile I want
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to say getting out of bed has become a
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magic trick and I’m probably the worst
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magician I know I want to say this
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sadness is the only clean shirt I have
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left and my washing machine has been
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broken for months but I’d rather not
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ruin someone’s day with my tragic
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honesty so instead I treat my face like
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I pretend it’s Halloween I carve it into
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something acceptable I laugh and say I’m
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all right so I’m gonna read one more and
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then that’ll be my time for tonight and
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afterwards I’ll be signing books so if
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you would like to have your book signed
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you can just stand in line and I will
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sign it sound good all right here we go
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last poem are we ready all right I call
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it cookout um here we go somewhere
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someone’s uncle or father a man wearing
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sandals and khaki shorts who says back
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in my day far too often is on the grill
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he is watching the food like he’s afraid
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it’ll change its mind about becoming a
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meal and decides to run off the kids are
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playing a game they made up themselves
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and changing the rules every five
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this smiles are so big you can fit
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history inside of them and still have
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room for right now and the future
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the adults hate all the new music but
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still want the teenagers to teach them
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all the dances the cupid shuffle is
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common ground and the wobble is a peace
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treaty signed by both generations there
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are no rallies today no blood on the
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street no hashtags here but there is
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barbecue potato salad and greens the
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only tears you will see here is when
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someone lifts the foil and all the mac
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and cheese is finished thank you so much
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for having me tonight thank you and I’ll
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be here I’ll be here signing books and
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y’all have a good night

A special thanks to Mr Rudy Francisco for inspiring all of us with his uplifting words.
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Photo credit: Screenshot from video with Rudy Francisco