[LAUGHTER]
I mean, you took it-- took it--
[LAUGHTER]
She took it.
Oh that's sad.
--took its, took its.
She's got the took-its.
[LAUGHTER]
It's been taken.
So she can't [INAUDIBLE]
Anyway, what's that pose?
What's that pose?
[INAUDIBLE] And you're just like, no.
No, you're just lying there [INAUDIBLE]..
[INTERPOSING VOICES]
So I feel like that gesture in combination with crying--
[LAUGHTER]
I don't know that-- but not always--
it's not always tears of sorrow because I cry when I'm moved.
So I was just--
see, I'm starting to do it.
I don't know if you saw me.
I was sitting here.
And I just started because I start to get full.
And it's good.
That's the good part.
And I feel OK.
And then even with the suffering--
when I see the suffering in the world,
my response to that when it comes to the work--
because I actually don't cry as often as I would like.
Because I hold that in too.
So then I think that's the gesture
that the composition is.
And even with sex, when it's real good, I cry there too.
Do you know what I mean?
And it's like a real sophisticated and complex kind
of crying.
[LAUGHTER]
But nobody knows about that.
[LAUGHTER]
[INAUDIBLE] a total cry.
[LAUGHTER]
[? I would ?] actually do [? similar. ?]
[LAUGHTER]
I do a lot of maintenance work--
like, janitorial.
I'm a super of the building.
I'm unemployed.
And that's not a choice.
It's just because of being between places,
it's hard for anyone to hire you.
But when I'm in Cleveland, I spend
much of my time restoring an old building.
And we took over a vacant lot.
And I spent the last years--
the last 10 years--
along with Paul Van Curen and other people
who decided to move into this building
that had no heat initially.
It's on the watershed that leads to Lake Erie.
They were going to tear this building down.
So people are often like, why don't you--
I have the opposite problem of most people I have--
I'm running from publishers--
[FEET STOMPING]
like really-- and not because I don't have time to sit down.
And it's hard to articulate that when
it's just the survival of this house
and this building in this community but also this land
outside.
And so occupy in the media--
I mean, it's like you try occupying single-handedly
a piece of land in this city and insisting
that this place be kept safe as a habitat for other beings.
So it was initially set aside with the purpose
of making a habitat for bees and other plant
and animal and insects.
And so recently, we've had some victories--
some mixed victories with that.
A conservation easement will be put on the land.
So finally, I can breathe about that.
But all I have been focusing on is planting and pulling.
But I'm not a typical gardener.
I tend to throw seeds and that everything nature
take care of it and otherwise running up and down
the steps of these buildings, cleaning and scrubbing.
And I say that because I think that we
do that in our own personal lives--
maintain our own homes and stuff.
So the gesture I would like to leave
has to do with opening up these spaces for future lives
and correspondences.
And in that sense, the gesture is that.
Thank you.
Can we have a round of applause for--
[APPLAUSE]