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My name is Harry Baker
Harry Baker is my name.

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If your name was Harry Baker,
then our names would be the same.

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(Laughter)

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It's a short introductory part.

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Yeah, I'm Harry.

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I study maths. I write poetry.

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So I thought I'd start
with a love poem about prime numbers.

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(Laughter)

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This is called "59."

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I was going to call it
"Prime Time Loving."

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That reaction is why I didn't.

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(Laughter)

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So, "59."

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59 wakes up on the wrong
side of the bed.

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Realizes all his hair is
on one side of his head.

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Takes just under a minute to work out that
it’s because of the way that he slept.

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He finds some clothes and gets dressed.

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He can’t help but look in the mirror
and be subtly impressed

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How he looks rough around the edges
and yet casually messed.

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And as he glances out the window, he
sees the sight that he gets blessed with

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of 60 from across the street.

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Now 60 was beautiful.

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With perfectly trimmed cuticles,
dressed in something suitable.

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Never rude or crude at all.

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Unimprovable, right on time as usual,
more on cue than a snooker ball

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but liked to play it super cool.

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59 wanted to tell her
that he knew her favorite flower.

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He thought of her every second,
every minute, every hour.

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But he knew it wouldn’t work,
he’d never get the girl.

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Because although she lived
across the street

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they came from different worlds.

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While 59 admired 60’s
perfectly round figure,

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60 thought 59 was odd.
(Laughter)

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One of his favorite films
was "101 Dalmatians."

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She preferred the sequel.

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He romanticized the idea
they were star-crossed lovers.

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They could overcome the odds
and evens because they had each other.

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While she maintained the strict views
imposed on her by her mother

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That separate could not be equal.

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And though at the time he felt
stupid and dumb

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For trying to love a girl controlled
by her stupid mum,

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He should have been comforted
by the simple sum.

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Take 59 away from 60,
and you’re left with the one.

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Sure enough after two months
of moping around,

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61 days later, 61 was who he found,

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He had lost his keys
and his parents were out.

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So one day after school
he went into a house

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As he noticed the slightly wonky
numbers on the door,

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He wondered why he’d never
introduced himself before,

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As she let him in, his jaw
dropped in awe.

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61 was like 60, but a little bit more.
(Laughter)

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She had prettier eyes,
and an approachable smile,

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And like him, rough around
the edges, casual style,

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And like him, everything
was in disorganized piles,

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And like him, her mum didn’t mind
if friends stayed a while.

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Because she was like him,
and he liked her.

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He reckoned she would like him
if she knew he was like her,

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And it was different this time.
I mean, this girl was wicked,

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So he plucked up the courage
and asked for her digits.

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She said, "I'm 61.
"He grinned, said, "I'm 59."

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Today I’ve had a really nice time,

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So tomorrow if you wanted
you could come over to mine?

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She said, "Sure."

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She loved talking to someone
just as quirky,

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She agreed to this unofficial first date.

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In the end he was only
ready one minute early,

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But it didn’t matter because
she arrived one minute late.

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And from that moment on
there was nonstop chatter,

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How they loved "X Factor,"
how they had two factors,

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How that did not matter,
distinctiveness made them better,

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By the end of the night they knew
they were meant together.

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And one day she was talking
about stuck-up 60,

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She noticed that 59 looked a bit shifty.

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He blushed, told her of his crush:

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“The best thing that never happened
because it led to us.”

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61 was clever, see,
not prone to jealousy,

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She looked him in the eyes
and told him quite tenderly,

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You’re 59, I’m 61, together we combine
to become twice what 60 could ever be.

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(Laughter)

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At this point 59 had tears in his eyes,

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Was so glad to have
this one-of-a-kind girl in his life.

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He told her the very
definition of being prime

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Was that with only one
and himself could his heart divide,

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And she was the one he wanted
to give his heart to,

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She said she felt the same
and now she knew the films were half true.

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Because that wasn't real love,
that love was just a sample,

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When it came to real love,
they were a prime example.

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Cheers.

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(Applause)

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That was the first poem that I wrote

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and it was for a prime number-themed
poetry night - (Laughter) -

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which turned out to be
a prime number-themed poetry competition.

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And I became a prime number-themed
poetry competition winner,

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or as I like to call it,
a prime minister. (Laughter)

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And this is how I discovered
these things called poetry slams,

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and if you don't know
what a poetry slam is,

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it was a format come up with
in America 30 years ago

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as a way of tricking people
into going to poetry events

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by putting an exciting word
like "slam" on the end.

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(Laughter)

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And each performer got
three minutes to perform

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and then random audience members
would hold up scorecards,

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and they would end up
with a numerical score,

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and what this meant is,

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it kind of broke down the barrier
between performer and audience

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and encouraged the kind of connection
with the listener.

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And what it also means is you can win.

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And if you win a poetry slam,
you can call yourself a slam champion

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and pretend you're a wrestler,

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and if you lose a poetry slam you can say,
"Oh, what? Poetry's a subjective art form,

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you can't put numbers on such things."

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(Laughter)

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But I loved it, and I got involved
in these slams,

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and I became the U.K. slam champion

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and got invited to
the Poetry World Cup in Paris,

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which was unbelievable.

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It was people from all around the world
speaking in their native languages

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to be judged by five French strangers.

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(Laughter)

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And somehow, I won, which was great,

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and I've been able
to travel the world since doing it,

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but it also means that this next piece

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is technically the best poem in the world.

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(Laughter)

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So...

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(Applause)

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According to five French strangers.

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So this is "Paper People."

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I like people.

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I'd like some paper people.

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They’d be purple paper people.
Maybe pop-up purple paper people.

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Proper pop-up purple paper people.

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"How do you prop up
pop-up purple paper people?"

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I hear you cry. Well I…

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I’d probably prop up proper
pop-up purple paper people

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with a proper pop-up
purple people paperclip,

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but I’d pre-prepare appropriate
adhesives as alternatives,

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a cheeky pack of Blu Tack
just in case the paper slipped.

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Because I could build a pop-up metropolis.

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but I wouldn’t wanna deal with all the
paper people politics.

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paper politicians with their
paper-thin policies,

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broken promises
without appropriate apologies.

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There’d be a little paper me.
And a little paper you.

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And we could watch paper TV
and it would all be pay-per-view.

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(Laughter)

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We’d see the poppy paper rappers
rap about their paper package

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or watch paper people carriers
get stuck in paper traffic on the A4.

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(Laughter) Paper.

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There’d be a paper princess Kate
but we’d all stare at paper Pippa,

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and then we’d all live in fear of
killer Jack the Paper-Ripper,

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because the paper propaganda
propagates the people's prejudices,

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papers printing pictures of the
photogenic terrorists.

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A little paper me.
And a little paper you.

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And in a pop-up population
people’s problems pop up too.

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There’d be a pompous paper parliament
who remained out of touch,

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and who ignored the people's protests
about all the paper cuts,

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then the peaceful paper protests
would get blown to paper pieces,

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by the confetti cannons
manned by pre-emptive police.

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And yes there’s still be paper money,
so there’d still be paper greed,

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and the paper piggy bankers
pocketing more than they need,

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purchasing the potpourri
to pepper their paper properties,

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others live in poverty
and ain’t acknowledged properly.

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A proper poor economy
where so many are proper poor,

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but while their needs are ignored
the money goes to big wars.

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Origami armies
unfold plans for paper planes

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and we remain imprisoned
in our own paper chains,

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but the greater shame
is that it always seems to stay the same,

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what changes is who’s in power
choosing how to lay the blame,

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they’re naming names,
forgetting these are names of people,

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because in the end
it all comes down to people.

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I like people.

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'Cause even when the situation’s dire,

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it is only ever people
who are able to inspire,

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and on paper,
it’s hard to see how we all cope.

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But in the bottom of Pandora’s box
there’s still hope,

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and I still hope
'cause I believe in people.

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People like my grandparents.

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Who every single day since I was born,

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have taken time out of their morning
to pray for me.

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That’s 7892 days straight
of someone checking I’m okay,

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and that’s amazing.

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People like my aunt who puts on
plays with prisoners.

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People who are capable
of genuine forgiveness.

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People like the persecuted Palestinians.

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People who go out of their way
to make your life better,

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and expect nothing in return.

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You see, people have potential
to be powerful.

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Just because the people in power
tend to pretend to be victims

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we don’t need to succumb to that system.

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And a paper population is no different.

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There’s a little paper me.
And a little paper you.

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And in a pop-up population
people's problems pop up too,

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but even if the whole world fell apart
then we’d still make it through.

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Because we’re people.

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Thank you.

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(Applause)

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Thank you very much.
I've just got time for one more.

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For me, poetry has been the ultimate way
of ideas without frontiers.

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When I first started,

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the people who inspired me
were the ones with the amazing stories,

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and I thought, as an 18-year-old
with a happy life, it was too normal,

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but I could create these worlds
where I could talk about my experiences

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and dreams and beliefs.

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So it's amazing to be here
in front of you today.

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Thank you for being here.

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If you weren't here,

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it would be pretty much
like the soundcheck yesterday.

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(Laughter)

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And this is more fun.

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So this last one is called
"The Sunshine Kid."

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Thank you very much for listening.

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Old man sunshine was proud of his sun,

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And it brightened his day
to see his little boy run,

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Not because of what he’d done,
nor the problems overcome,

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But that despite that his disposition
remained a sunny one.

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It hadn’t always been like this.

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There’d been times when he’d tried
to hide his brightness,

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You see, every star
hits periods of hardship,

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It takes a brighter light
to inspire them through the darkness.

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If we go back to when
he was born in a nebula,

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We know that he never
was thought of as regular,

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Because he had a flair about him,

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To say the Midas touch is wrong

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but all he went near
seemed to turn a little bronze,

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Yes this sun was loved
by some more than others,

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It was a case of Joseph
and his dreamcoat and his brothers

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Because standing out from the crowd
had its pros and its cons,

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And jealousy created enemies
in those he outshone

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Such as the Shadow People.

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Now the Shadow People
didn’t like the Sunshine Kid,

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Because he showed up the dark things
the Shadow People did,

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And when he shone he showed
the places where the Shadow People hid,

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So the Shadow People had
an evil plan to get rid of him,

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First up -- they made fun of his sunspots,

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Shooting his dreams from the sky,
their words were gunshots,

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Designed to remind him
he wasn’t very cool

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And he didn’t fit in with any
popular kids at school.

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They said his head was up in space
and they would bring him down to Earth,

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Essentially he came from nothing
and that is what he was worth,

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He’d never get to go
to university to learn,

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Only degrees he’d ever show
would be the first degree burns

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From those that came too close,

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they told him he was too bright,

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That’s why no one ever
looked him in the eyes,

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His judgment became clouded

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So did the sky,
With evaporated tears

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as the sun started to cry.

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Because the sunshine kid was bright,
with a warm personality,

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And inside he burned savagely

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Hurt by the words and curses
of the shadowy folk

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who spoke holes in his soul
and left cavities,

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and as his heart hardened,
his spark darkened,

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Every time they called him names
it cooled his flames,

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He thought they might like him
if he kept his light dim

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But they were busy telling lightning
she had terrible aim,

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He couldn’t quite get to grips
with what they said,

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So he let his light be eclipsed
by what they said,

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He fell into a Lone Star State like Texas,

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And felt like he’d been punched
in his solar plexus.

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But that’s when
Little Miss Sunshine came along

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Singing her favorite song
about how we’re made to be strong,

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And you don’t have to be wrong to belong,
just be true to who you are,

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because we are all stars at heart.

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Little Miss Sunshine was hot stuff,

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The kind of girl when you looked at her

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you forgot stuff,

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But for him, there was no forgetting her,

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The minute he saw her
her image burned in his retina,

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She was out of this world,
and she accepted him,

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Something about this girl meant he knew
whenever she was next to him,

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Things weren’t as dark as they seemed,
and he dared to dream,

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Shadows were nowhere to be seen;
when she was there he beamed,

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His eyes would light up
in ways that can’t be faked,

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When she grinned her rays erased
the razor-tipped words of hate,

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They gave each other nicknames
they were "cool star" and "fun sun,"

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And gradually the shadowy
damage became undone,

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She was one in a septillion,
and she was brilliant,

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Could turn the coldest blooded
reptilians vermillion,

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Loved by billions,
from Chileans to Brazilians,

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And taught the Sunshine Kid
the meaning of resilience.

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She said: “All the darkness in the world

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cannot put out the light
from a single candle

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So how the hell can they
handle your light?

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Only you can choose to dim it,
and the sky is the limit,

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so silence the critics by burning.”

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And if eyes are windows to the soul
then she drew back the curtains

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And let the sun shine
through the hurting.

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In a universe of adversity
these stars stuck together,

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And though days became nights
the memories would last forever,

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Whether the weatherman
said it or not, it would be fine,

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'Cause even behind the clouds
the kid could still shine.

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Yes, the Sunshine Kid was bright,
with a warm personality,

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And inside he burned savagely,

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Fueled by the fire
inspired across galaxies

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By the girl who showed him belief.

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Thank you very much.

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(Applause)