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I love when wins. And now for the show.

One night poetry came to me and said, you're coming with me. You need to learn how to listen.

And yes, we know it's going to be a hard road,

especially for us who are teaching you.

And I took it on, and it's been my biggest teacher,

because when you go into the place of poetry as a writer

or a reader of poetry, you go into that place beyond time. You go into the place of poetry as a writer or a reader of poetry, you go into that place beyond time,

you go into the place beyond words. And you find things there. You can find your, you find yourself, you find

ancestors, you find out that those stones nearby can speak and the trees have their own language.

Now the scientists are coming out with all kinds of books about this, but this is part of our old knowledge.

This is called Remember. It's for those ancestors here. It's for those ancestors here. I'm I'm A

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A Remember the sky you were born under.

Know each of the star's stories.

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