 How y'all doing? You doing good? I can see it, and I can hear it. I am so happy to be here. I get to be up here and open up the show for you. After me, you're going to hear from amazing poets. I think I'm going to stand, because it hurts to sit when I'm tucked, so I'm just going to stand. I get to be up here with amazing people who have podcasts and who write poetry and have books. And I'm going to read you a children's book because that's what I do, but it's by Bell Hooks, bitches. So get yourselves together and get ready for adult drag queen story hour. The book I'm going to read is called Skin Again by Bell Hooks, and it's illustrated by Chris Roshka. The skin I'm in is just a covering. It cannot tell my story. The skin I'm in is just a covering. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside and open your heart way wide. The skin I'm in looks good to me. It will let you know one small way to trace my identity. But then again, the skin I'm in will always be just a covering. It cannot tell my story. If you want to know who I am, you have got to come inside. Be with me inside the me of me, all made up of stories present, past, future. Some true to life and others all fun and fantasy, all the way I imagine me. You can find all about me coming close and letting go of who you might think I am before you come inside and let me be real and you become real to me. All real then in that place where skin again is one small way to see me, but not real enough to be all the me of me or the you of you. For we are all inside made up of real history, real dreams, and the stuff of all we hope for when we can be all real together on the inside. Thank you.