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Valerie Hsiung reading selections from Name Date of Birth Emergency Contact (out now with The Gleaners). Originally recorded for Montez Press Radio.

You can find the whole book as a pdf here to follow along: thegleaners.cargo.site

1. "modulating modulat- messages on tap hatch through tapioca..." pg 24
2. "It is 1989. I have just been born. I want to die..." pg 31
3. "In my rehearsals, I practiced walking up from my seat..." pg 32
4. "fool of touching you..." pg 33
5. "with this packet you will be able to heal old wounds..." pg 41
6. "Never run from sadness, Cocoa..." pg 42
7. "Even though we aren’t anything large or meaningful,..." pg 43
8. "Mountain of my youth..." pg 51
9. "At the turn of the century..." pg 52
10. "There was little bit of misery, and there was little bit of beauty,..." pg 53
11. "As though there were nothing left by you..." pg 62
12. "Everything was going to be beautiful everything was going to be profitable we had all of our days ahead..." pg 64
13. "You’re just cold. That’s all it is. Let me see..." pg 72
14. "When we sneeze, we are never expected to say, 'No thank you.'..." pg 74
15. "They asked me why / I said no..." pg 77
16. "great perpetrator..." pg 84
17. "Sometimes I still have a desire to be naughty again, naughty and sweet..." pg 89

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released November 17, 2020

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