WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.810 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.810 --> 00:00:04.410 align:middle line:84% I think perhaps as in a longer poem 00:00:04.410 --> 00:00:06.940 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read after a short intermission 00:00:06.940 --> 00:00:13.860 align:middle line:84% that the Western frontier has got nowhere to go but in. 00:00:13.860 --> 00:00:24.180 align:middle line:84% And my poetry seems to be going inward. 00:00:24.180 --> 00:00:27.530 align:middle line:90% 00:00:27.530 --> 00:00:31.940 align:middle line:84% Half jokingly I'd like to read a poem 00:00:31.940 --> 00:00:34.910 align:middle line:84% called "Underwear" because my thoughts turned underwear. 00:00:34.910 --> 00:00:38.530 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:38.530 --> 00:00:44.545 align:middle line:84% Obviously my thoughts are turning inward. 00:00:44.545 --> 00:00:48.340 align:middle line:90% 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:50.080 align:middle line:84% It's not really related to the theme 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:53.780 align:middle line:84% but I just had a request to read this poem. 00:00:53.780 --> 00:00:55.690 align:middle line:90% So I got to work it in. 00:00:55.690 --> 00:01:02.490 align:middle line:90% 00:01:02.490 --> 00:01:04.475 align:middle line:84% I made it good trying to work it in. 00:01:04.475 --> 00:01:07.390 align:middle line:90% 00:01:07.390 --> 00:01:12.820 align:middle line:84% "I didn't get much sleep last night thinking about underwear 00:01:12.820 --> 00:01:16.870 align:middle line:84% and this is a serious poem about underwear. 00:01:16.870 --> 00:01:19.240 align:middle line:84% Have you ever stopped to consider underwear 00:01:19.240 --> 00:01:21.910 align:middle line:90% in the abstract. 00:01:21.910 --> 00:01:26.065 align:middle line:84% When you really dig into it some shocking problems are raised. 00:01:26.065 --> 00:01:28.900 align:middle line:90% 00:01:28.900 --> 00:01:32.530 align:middle line:84% Underwear is something we all have to deal with. 00:01:32.530 --> 00:01:35.290 align:middle line:84% Everyone wears some kind of underwear, 00:01:35.290 --> 00:01:40.990 align:middle line:84% even Indians were underwear, even Cubans wear underwear, 00:01:40.990 --> 00:01:45.220 align:middle line:90% the Pope wears underwear I hope. 00:01:45.220 --> 00:01:47.950 align:middle line:84% Underwear is worn by Negroes, the governor of Louisiana 00:01:47.950 --> 00:01:49.990 align:middle line:90% wears underwear I saw him on TV. 00:01:49.990 --> 00:01:52.720 align:middle line:84% He must have had tight underwear, he squirmed a lot. 00:01:52.720 --> 00:01:55.540 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:55.540 --> 00:01:57.900 align:middle line:90% 00:01:57.900 --> 00:02:00.885 align:middle line:84% Underwear can really get you in a bind. 00:02:00.885 --> 00:02:03.630 align:middle line:90% 00:02:03.630 --> 00:02:06.430 align:middle line:84% You have seen the underwear ads for men and women 00:02:06.430 --> 00:02:09.449 align:middle line:90% so alike but so different. 00:02:09.449 --> 00:02:12.330 align:middle line:84% Women's underwear whole things up, men's underwear 00:02:12.330 --> 00:02:13.305 align:middle line:90% holds things down. 00:02:13.305 --> 00:02:17.950 align:middle line:90% 00:02:17.950 --> 00:02:21.520 align:middle line:84% Underwear is one thing men and women do have in common. 00:02:21.520 --> 00:02:25.310 align:middle line:84% Underwear is all we have between us in the end. 00:02:25.310 --> 00:02:27.550 align:middle line:84% And you have seen the three-color pictures 00:02:27.550 --> 00:02:30.700 align:middle line:84% with crotches and circle to show the areas of extra strength 00:02:30.700 --> 00:02:37.550 align:middle line:84% and three-way stretch promising full freedom of action. 00:02:37.550 --> 00:02:38.635 align:middle line:90% Don't be deceived. 00:02:38.635 --> 00:02:41.520 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:41.520 --> 00:02:48.170 align:middle line:90% 00:02:48.170 --> 00:02:52.400 align:middle line:84% It's all based on the two-party system which 00:02:52.400 --> 00:02:54.200 align:middle line:84% doesn't allow much freedom of choice 00:02:54.200 --> 00:02:56.540 align:middle line:90% the way things are set up. 00:02:56.540 --> 00:03:00.350 align:middle line:84% America in its underwear struggles through the night. 00:03:00.350 --> 00:03:03.380 align:middle line:84% Underwear controls everything in the end. 00:03:03.380 --> 00:03:06.020 align:middle line:84% Take foundation garments for instance, 00:03:06.020 --> 00:03:10.160 align:middle line:84% they are really fascist forms of underground government making 00:03:10.160 --> 00:03:12.170 align:middle line:84% people believe something but the truth, 00:03:12.170 --> 00:03:14.910 align:middle line:84% telling you what you can or can do. 00:03:14.910 --> 00:03:18.530 align:middle line:84% Did you ever try to get around a girdle. 00:03:18.530 --> 00:03:23.570 align:middle line:84% Perhaps non-violent action is the only answer. 00:03:23.570 --> 00:03:25.310 align:middle line:90% Did Gandhi wear a girdle? 00:03:25.310 --> 00:03:27.530 align:middle line:90% Did lady Macbeth wear a girdle? 00:03:27.530 --> 00:03:30.920 align:middle line:84% Was that why Macbeth murdered sleep? 00:03:30.920 --> 00:03:35.330 align:middle line:84% And that spot she was always rubbing 00:03:35.330 --> 00:03:37.370 align:middle line:90% was it really in her underwear? 00:03:37.370 --> 00:03:41.210 align:middle line:84% Modern Anglo-Saxon ladies must have huge guilt complexes 00:03:41.210 --> 00:03:46.310 align:middle line:84% always washing and washing and washing out damned spot. 00:03:46.310 --> 00:03:50.900 align:middle line:84% Underwear with spots very suspicious. 00:03:50.900 --> 00:03:54.560 align:middle line:84% Underwear with bulges very shocking. 00:03:54.560 --> 00:03:57.710 align:middle line:84% Underwear on clothesline of great flag of freedom someone 00:03:57.710 --> 00:04:00.680 align:middle line:84% has escaped his underwear maybe naked somewhere help. 00:04:00.680 --> 00:04:03.430 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:04:03.430 --> 00:04:09.390 align:middle line:90% 00:04:09.390 --> 00:04:15.390 align:middle line:84% But don't worry everybody still hung up in it there 00:04:15.390 --> 00:04:18.269 align:middle line:90% won't be no real revolution. 00:04:18.269 --> 00:04:22.770 align:middle line:84% And poetry still the underwear of the soul and underwear 00:04:22.770 --> 00:04:26.070 align:middle line:84% still covering a multitude of faults in the geological 00:04:26.070 --> 00:04:32.490 align:middle line:84% sense strange sedimentary stones inscrutable cracks. 00:04:32.490 --> 00:04:37.590 align:middle line:84% And that only the beginning for does not the body stay alive 00:04:37.590 --> 00:04:41.190 align:middle line:84% after death and still need its underwear or outgrow it, 00:04:41.190 --> 00:04:44.790 align:middle line:84% some organs tend to reach full maturity only after the head 00:04:44.790 --> 00:04:48.210 align:middle line:90% stops holding them back. 00:04:48.210 --> 00:04:53.970 align:middle line:84% If I were you, I'd keep aside an oversized pair 00:04:53.970 --> 00:04:56.070 align:middle line:90% of winter underwear. 00:04:56.070 --> 00:05:01.020 align:middle line:84% Do not go naked into that good night. 00:05:01.020 --> 00:05:06.670 align:middle line:84% And in the meantime, keep calm and warm and dry no you 00:05:06.670 --> 00:05:11.310 align:middle line:84% stirring yourselves up prematurely over nothing. 00:05:11.310 --> 00:05:15.660 align:middle line:84% Move forward with dignity and invest. 00:05:15.660 --> 00:05:20.730 align:middle line:84% Don't get emotional and death shall have no dominion. 00:05:20.730 --> 00:05:25.830 align:middle line:84% There's plenty of time my darling, 00:05:25.830 --> 00:05:30.640 align:middle line:90% are we not still young and easy. 00:05:30.640 --> 00:05:32.820 align:middle line:90% Don't shout." 00:05:32.820 --> 00:05:35.790 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:05:35.790 --> 00:05:49.155 align:middle line:90% 00:05:49.155 --> 00:05:52.660 align:middle line:84% I have a five minute intermission.