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– Joey from Dawson’s Creek was my beard.
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(laughter)
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Which if you don’t know means she was my prom date,
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my monster truck, my main squeeze, rumor swatter,
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all I had to do was leave my locker ajar for her scotch
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taped image to yell to all of B hall that there was nothing
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to see here after all.
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Just Joey at the end of a dock.
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Joey in a field of daisies.
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Joey and Bobby makeup ads and stepping onto a red carpet.
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Now obviously this is the gayest thing ever.
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But, but let me get to the point.
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Joey wasn’t real except that she taught me how simple
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it was to hide in a look, in a laugh,
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or to hold hands at the back of a bus
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and kiss in the smoky basements of parties.
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And on the hoods of cars in stadium parking lots.
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Or for how to say faggot and how to avoid the boys
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whose air I could feel come off them and toward me when
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they walked.
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Another way of saying this is god i am just,
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so sorry.
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Because there were so many.
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And I didn’t even watch the show.
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(applause)
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