WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.990 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.990 --> 00:00:02.970 align:middle line:90% Conspiracy Simile. 00:00:02.970 --> 00:00:09.330 align:middle line:84% One-- all poets assassinate poetry. 00:00:09.330 --> 00:00:13.500 align:middle line:84% Two-- and all similes contain at least one conspiracy 00:00:13.500 --> 00:00:16.020 align:middle line:84% that you can see if you look beyond the cover 00:00:16.020 --> 00:00:21.040 align:middle line:84% up of sentence, intent, and enforced form. 00:00:21.040 --> 00:00:24.400 align:middle line:84% Three-- there were more poets, far more poets, 00:00:24.400 --> 00:00:30.460 align:middle line:84% than there were shooters in Dallas on November 22, 1963. 00:00:30.460 --> 00:00:35.170 align:middle line:84% Actually, they arrived at least two weeks in advance. 00:00:35.170 --> 00:00:39.220 align:middle line:84% There were also spare patsies, spare stanzas, 00:00:39.220 --> 00:00:41.860 align:middle line:90% and spare assassins. 00:00:41.860 --> 00:00:48.100 align:middle line:84% Four-- sometimes the singular difference between being a hero 00:00:48.100 --> 00:00:52.690 align:middle line:84% and being the patsy is facial hair. 00:00:52.690 --> 00:00:54.528 align:middle line:84% I thought that was funny when I wrote it. 00:00:54.528 --> 00:00:56.320 align:middle line:84% This side of the room thought it was funny. 00:00:56.320 --> 00:00:58.390 align:middle line:84% This side of the room, [? I don't know. ?] When I 00:00:58.390 --> 00:01:01.570 align:middle line:84% wrote it, I didn't have facial hair, either. 00:01:01.570 --> 00:01:03.700 align:middle line:90% Did Oswald? 00:01:03.700 --> 00:01:04.879 align:middle line:90% Do you remember? 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:05.379 align:middle line:90% No. 00:01:05.379 --> 00:01:06.820 align:middle line:90% Not really, right? 00:01:06.820 --> 00:01:09.640 align:middle line:84% But before the Dallas Police took him into custody 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:12.910 align:middle line:84% at the Texas Theater for allegedly shooting Officer JD 00:01:12.910 --> 00:01:16.330 align:middle line:84% Tippit, Lee Harvey Oswald resembled something 00:01:16.330 --> 00:01:20.200 align:middle line:90% of a junior beat poet. 00:01:20.200 --> 00:01:23.260 align:middle line:84% Yes, someone who was about to see 00:01:23.260 --> 00:01:28.900 align:middle line:84% the best minds of his generation destroyed by-- 00:01:28.900 --> 00:01:29.650 align:middle line:90% we don't know. 00:01:29.650 --> 00:01:31.930 align:middle line:90% He was beat and sharp. 00:01:31.930 --> 00:01:35.231 align:middle line:84% They always portrayed Oswald as a loser, don't they? 00:01:35.231 --> 00:01:35.731 align:middle line:90% Don't they? 00:01:35.731 --> 00:01:36.980 align:middle line:90% He got a t-shirt on. 00:01:36.980 --> 00:01:38.560 align:middle line:84% He even said, it's not fair for me 00:01:38.560 --> 00:01:40.960 align:middle line:84% to wear this t-shirt in a police lineup. 00:01:40.960 --> 00:01:43.660 align:middle line:84% He's like, let me change to a shirt, you know? 00:01:43.660 --> 00:01:44.950 align:middle line:90% He actually spoke six-- 00:01:44.950 --> 00:01:48.150 align:middle line:90% close to six languages. 00:01:48.150 --> 00:01:50.190 align:middle line:90% So he wasn't dumb. 00:01:50.190 --> 00:01:52.550 align:middle line:84% He knew what was happening-- very smart. 00:01:52.550 --> 00:01:58.700 align:middle line:84% The cut over his eye, beat, because they beat him. 00:01:58.700 --> 00:02:02.960 align:middle line:84% Five-- in most poems, there's a speaker who is not the author, 00:02:02.960 --> 00:02:04.880 align:middle line:84% but who was governed by the author. 00:02:04.880 --> 00:02:08.930 align:middle line:84% A 2 in one, but not a full doubling. 00:02:08.930 --> 00:02:12.740 align:middle line:84% While in police custody, who said this? 00:02:12.740 --> 00:02:15.050 align:middle line:90% Lee or Harvey? 00:02:15.050 --> 00:02:15.750 align:middle line:90% There was a Lee. 00:02:15.750 --> 00:02:16.910 align:middle line:90% And there was a Harvey. 00:02:16.910 --> 00:02:18.500 align:middle line:84% Some people saw-- some people saw 00:02:18.500 --> 00:02:20.547 align:middle line:84% Harvey go out the back door at the Texas Theater. 00:02:20.547 --> 00:02:22.130 align:middle line:84% Some people saw Lee come in the front. 00:02:22.130 --> 00:02:24.740 align:middle line:90% 00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:25.910 align:middle line:90% Crazy. 00:02:25.910 --> 00:02:27.470 align:middle line:90% Who said this? 00:02:27.470 --> 00:02:29.780 align:middle line:84% The colored people in Russia have 00:02:29.780 --> 00:02:33.567 align:middle line:84% it better than the colored people in America. 00:02:33.567 --> 00:02:34.650 align:middle line:90% We don't know who said it. 00:02:34.650 --> 00:02:38.180 align:middle line:84% But one of the Oswalds said it at the Texas jail. 00:02:38.180 --> 00:02:40.220 align:middle line:84% [INAUDIBLE] interrogation, just out of nowhere. 00:02:40.220 --> 00:02:45.500 align:middle line:84% Just to fuck with the police, pre NWA. 00:02:45.500 --> 00:02:47.427 align:middle line:84% Oswald said they were asking no questions. 00:02:47.427 --> 00:02:49.010 align:middle line:84% They hadn't charged him with anything. 00:02:49.010 --> 00:02:50.218 align:middle line:90% They had already beat him up. 00:02:50.218 --> 00:02:52.610 align:middle line:84% They had to put the Band-Aid over his eye. 00:02:52.610 --> 00:02:54.260 align:middle line:90% His handlers knew who he were. 00:02:54.260 --> 00:02:55.920 align:middle line:90% He knew who he was. 00:02:55.920 --> 00:02:58.067 align:middle line:90% He knew he was taking the fall. 00:02:58.067 --> 00:02:59.900 align:middle line:84% Some people say, some of the books about him 00:02:59.900 --> 00:03:03.920 align:middle line:84% say, he thought he was going to stop the assassination. 00:03:03.920 --> 00:03:05.370 align:middle line:90% Tricked him. 00:03:05.370 --> 00:03:07.765 align:middle line:84% He turns to the cop who's interrogating him and says, 00:03:07.765 --> 00:03:09.140 align:middle line:84% the colored people in Russia have 00:03:09.140 --> 00:03:11.015 align:middle line:84% it better than the colored people in America. 00:03:11.015 --> 00:03:13.310 align:middle line:84% And there wasn't a damn colored person in the room. 00:03:13.310 --> 00:03:15.560 align:middle line:90% Oswald. 00:03:15.560 --> 00:03:17.750 align:middle line:90% It's like, meta. 00:03:17.750 --> 00:03:20.360 align:middle line:84% He knew I was going to be standing here one day. 00:03:20.360 --> 00:03:22.400 align:middle line:90% What was Oswald's zodiac sign? 00:03:22.400 --> 00:03:22.910 align:middle line:90% Anybody? 00:03:22.910 --> 00:03:23.750 align:middle line:90% Libra. 00:03:23.750 --> 00:03:24.260 align:middle line:90% Libra. 00:03:24.260 --> 00:03:25.770 align:middle line:90% We know that because of who? 00:03:25.770 --> 00:03:26.630 align:middle line:90% DeLillo. 00:03:26.630 --> 00:03:27.825 align:middle line:90% Don DeLillo. 00:03:27.825 --> 00:03:30.200 align:middle line:84% What's the-- what's the zodiac sign of the person sitting 00:03:30.200 --> 00:03:31.575 align:middle line:84% right here-- standing right here? 00:03:31.575 --> 00:03:32.630 align:middle line:90% 00:03:32.630 --> 00:03:34.070 align:middle line:90% Libra. 00:03:34.070 --> 00:03:36.620 align:middle line:84% What about the person sitting right there? 00:03:36.620 --> 00:03:38.090 align:middle line:90% Libra. 00:03:38.090 --> 00:03:40.280 align:middle line:84% What about my faithful assistant over there? 00:03:40.280 --> 00:03:42.920 align:middle line:84% All the Libras, raise their hand. 00:03:42.920 --> 00:03:43.685 align:middle line:90% Fellows Oswalds. 00:03:43.685 --> 00:03:47.000 align:middle line:90% 00:03:47.000 --> 00:03:49.078 align:middle line:90% Six. 00:03:49.078 --> 00:03:50.120 align:middle line:90% I would like to worship-- 00:03:50.120 --> 00:03:51.680 align:middle line:84% workshop the narrative progression of that day. 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.350 align:middle line:84% But I cannot, not without becoming an assassin, myself. 00:03:54.350 --> 00:03:58.280 align:middle line:84% I believe that the word collaboration is a better 00:03:58.280 --> 00:04:02.420 align:middle line:90% fit than the word conspiracy. 00:04:02.420 --> 00:04:05.660 align:middle line:84% There are documents to prove and disprove this. 00:04:05.660 --> 00:04:08.060 align:middle line:90% But there is no body or brain. 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:12.140 align:middle line:84% The body of the slain poem is the best evidence. 00:04:12.140 --> 00:04:13.790 align:middle line:84% But what happens when the autopsy 00:04:13.790 --> 00:04:19.519 align:middle line:84% occurs before the poem is written, or finished 00:04:19.519 --> 00:04:21.420 align:middle line:90% being written? 00:04:21.420 --> 00:04:24.620 align:middle line:84% What do we know about the au-- tangent. 00:04:24.620 --> 00:04:26.510 align:middle line:84% What do we know about the autopsy? 00:04:26.510 --> 00:04:28.730 align:middle line:90% We know a lot about the autopsy. 00:04:28.730 --> 00:04:32.060 align:middle line:84% We know that they don't match what happens in that film. 00:04:32.060 --> 00:04:34.010 align:middle line:84% We know that they don't match the photos, 00:04:34.010 --> 00:04:36.200 align:middle line:84% don't match the witness testimony. 00:04:36.200 --> 00:04:38.060 align:middle line:84% We don't know whose body that is. 00:04:38.060 --> 00:04:39.540 align:middle line:90% Sometimes it looks like JFK. 00:04:39.540 --> 00:04:41.658 align:middle line:90% Sometimes it doesn't. 00:04:41.658 --> 00:04:43.700 align:middle line:84% At the beginning of this talk, I said they were-- 00:04:43.700 --> 00:04:45.030 align:middle line:84% I was going to try to do it in three parts. 00:04:45.030 --> 00:04:45.920 align:middle line:90% We're in the second part. 00:04:45.920 --> 00:04:47.170 align:middle line:90% I don't know what part I'm on. 00:04:47.170 --> 00:04:49.003 align:middle line:90% Who cares? 00:04:49.003 --> 00:04:49.920 align:middle line:90% Three parts, whatever. 00:04:49.920 --> 00:04:52.100 align:middle line:84% There were three assassinations that weekend. 00:04:52.100 --> 00:04:54.820 align:middle line:90% Who were they? 00:04:54.820 --> 00:04:55.320 align:middle line:90% Come on. 00:04:55.320 --> 00:04:56.653 align:middle line:90% Who was the first person killed? 00:04:56.653 --> 00:04:57.270 align:middle line:90% JFK. 00:04:57.270 --> 00:04:58.110 align:middle line:90% JFK. 00:04:58.110 --> 00:04:58.890 align:middle line:90% Second person? 00:04:58.890 --> 00:04:59.590 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:04:59.590 --> 00:05:00.090 align:middle line:90% Who? 00:05:00.090 --> 00:05:00.850 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:05:00.850 --> 00:05:01.350 align:middle line:90% [? M-hm. ?] 00:05:01.350 --> 00:05:02.190 align:middle line:90% Tippit 00:05:02.190 --> 00:05:02.760 align:middle line:90% Tippit. 00:05:02.760 --> 00:05:03.816 align:middle line:90% Officer Tippit. 00:05:03.816 --> 00:05:06.330 align:middle line:90% Third, Lee. 00:05:06.330 --> 00:05:09.750 align:middle line:84% What if they were all planned to happened? 00:05:09.750 --> 00:05:13.350 align:middle line:84% The narrative is that Tippit tried to arrest Lee. 00:05:13.350 --> 00:05:15.710 align:middle line:90% And Lee shot him. 00:05:15.710 --> 00:05:16.962 align:middle line:90% You have to believe that. 00:05:16.962 --> 00:05:19.170 align:middle line:84% Because if you don't believe that, there's a problem. 00:05:19.170 --> 00:05:21.330 align:middle line:90% Where was Tippit shot at? 00:05:21.330 --> 00:05:22.827 align:middle line:90% Like where on his body? 00:05:22.827 --> 00:05:24.260 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:05:24.260 --> 00:05:26.280 align:middle line:90% Temple. 00:05:26.280 --> 00:05:28.700 align:middle line:84% Same place you saw in the Zapruder film-- 00:05:28.700 --> 00:05:33.110 align:middle line:90% same wound, close range. 00:05:33.110 --> 00:05:35.210 align:middle line:84% Look at the autopsy photos again. 00:05:35.210 --> 00:05:36.650 align:middle line:90% What was Tippit's nickname? 00:05:36.650 --> 00:05:38.150 align:middle line:90% Anybody know? 00:05:38.150 --> 00:05:40.760 align:middle line:90% He had an ugly nickname. 00:05:40.760 --> 00:05:43.820 align:middle line:84% He would be what we would call now a dirty cop. 00:05:43.820 --> 00:05:48.140 align:middle line:84% They gave him a hero's welc-- a hero's sending off, 00:05:48.140 --> 00:05:50.900 align:middle line:90% because he sacrificed. 00:05:50.900 --> 00:05:53.176 align:middle line:90% His nickname was Jack. 00:05:53.176 --> 00:05:54.970 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:05:54.970 --> 00:05:57.300 align:middle line:84% Jack Kennedy was hated in Dallas. 00:05:57.300 --> 00:05:57.800 align:middle line:90% Hated. 00:05:57.800 --> 00:05:59.870 align:middle line:90% And Dallas was like Thug City. 00:05:59.870 --> 00:06:01.720 align:middle line:90% It was like Detroit now. 00:06:01.720 --> 00:06:02.720 align:middle line:90% I mean, there was money. 00:06:02.720 --> 00:06:06.050 align:middle line:84% But it was like, you didn't fuck around in Dallas. 00:06:06.050 --> 00:06:08.120 align:middle line:84% They passed out treason pamphlets the morning 00:06:08.120 --> 00:06:10.610 align:middle line:90% of the assassination. 00:06:10.610 --> 00:06:12.350 align:middle line:90% And the draft. 00:06:12.350 --> 00:06:14.242 align:middle line:84% Jack-- they called him Jack the-- 00:06:14.242 --> 00:06:15.575 align:middle line:90% how do you earn a nickname Jack? 00:06:15.575 --> 00:06:18.180 align:middle line:90% 00:06:18.180 --> 00:06:20.950 align:middle line:84% Well how do you earn any nickname? 00:06:20.950 --> 00:06:22.010 align:middle line:90% [INAUDIBLE] 00:06:22.010 --> 00:06:23.180 align:middle line:90% Semblance. 00:06:23.180 --> 00:06:25.500 align:middle line:90% Resemblance. 00:06:25.500 --> 00:06:26.580 align:middle line:90% Body type. 00:06:26.580 --> 00:06:27.090 align:middle line:90% Height. 00:06:27.090 --> 00:06:28.530 align:middle line:90% Handsome. 00:06:28.530 --> 00:06:31.710 align:middle line:84% To them, closest thing they had to look like JFK. 00:06:31.710 --> 00:06:35.170 align:middle line:84% You don't see very many pictures of Tippit on internet anymore. 00:06:35.170 --> 00:06:36.330 align:middle line:90% Why is that? 00:06:36.330 --> 00:06:37.298 align:middle line:90% Erasure. 00:06:37.298 --> 00:06:38.840 align:middle line:84% I'm speaking about the assassination. 00:06:38.840 --> 00:06:40.650 align:middle line:90% But I'm speaking about erasure. 00:06:40.650 --> 00:06:42.400 align:middle line:84% Anybody know what erasure poetics is? 00:06:42.400 --> 00:06:43.400 align:middle line:90% Seen erasure in poetics? 00:06:43.400 --> 00:06:45.983 align:middle line:84% You've seen the poetics that the kid is doing grad school now, 00:06:45.983 --> 00:06:48.000 align:middle line:84% where they write the word and they cross it out? 00:06:48.000 --> 00:06:50.893 align:middle line:84% But they leave it on the page so you can see it. 00:06:50.893 --> 00:06:52.560 align:middle line:84% They want you to know, well, it's there. 00:06:52.560 --> 00:06:55.020 align:middle line:90% But it's not there. 00:06:55.020 --> 00:06:58.840 align:middle line:84% They think they're just little Zapruders. 00:06:58.840 --> 00:07:00.600 align:middle line:90% Jackie, why is that word there? 00:07:00.600 --> 00:07:02.130 align:middle line:90% You crossed it out. 00:07:02.130 --> 00:07:05.598 align:middle line:84% Well, in abstract expressionism, sometimes the painters 00:07:05.598 --> 00:07:07.140 align:middle line:84% paint over the word and leave a piece 00:07:07.140 --> 00:07:10.070 align:middle line:90% like Rauschenberg and Basquiat. 00:07:10.070 --> 00:07:11.070 align:middle line:90% They want you to see it. 00:07:11.070 --> 00:07:12.780 align:middle line:90% But it's not really there. 00:07:12.780 --> 00:07:15.990 align:middle line:90% Take that out your damn poem. 00:07:15.990 --> 00:07:16.650 align:middle line:90% That's me. 00:07:16.650 --> 00:07:18.951 align:middle line:90% You're no assassin. 00:07:18.951 --> 00:07:21.000 align:middle line:84% A lot of things that are there, not there, 00:07:21.000 --> 00:07:27.180 align:middle line:84% left in, to fool you, to trick you, to hallucinate you. 00:07:27.180 --> 00:07:28.875 align:middle line:90% Where was I? 00:07:28.875 --> 00:07:33.840 align:middle line:84% What happens when the wrong poem is used for the autopsy photos? 00:07:33.840 --> 00:07:37.150 align:middle line:84% If you stay away from the poem long enough while writing it, 00:07:37.150 --> 00:07:41.820 align:middle line:84% you can actually get its drafts to disagree. 00:07:41.820 --> 00:07:42.378 align:middle line:90% You can. 00:07:42.378 --> 00:07:44.670 align:middle line:84% There were a different set of doctors at Bethesda navel 00:07:44.670 --> 00:07:48.660 align:middle line:90% than the doctors at Parkland. 00:07:48.660 --> 00:07:51.420 align:middle line:84% The Parkland doctor saw one thing, said something else. 00:07:51.420 --> 00:07:53.250 align:middle line:90% Body goes on a plane. 00:07:53.250 --> 00:07:54.400 align:middle line:90% Or maybe he took the train. 00:07:54.400 --> 00:07:55.240 align:middle line:90% Maybe they faxed it. 00:07:55.240 --> 00:07:55.740 align:middle line:90% Who knows? 00:07:55.740 --> 00:07:59.430 align:middle line:84% Time travel, aliens, I don't know how it got to DC. 00:07:59.430 --> 00:08:01.200 align:middle line:84% Jackie said she never left the casket. 00:08:01.200 --> 00:08:02.950 align:middle line:84% But we know that's not true, because she's 00:08:02.950 --> 00:08:05.783 align:middle line:84% being photographed next to Lyndon for the swearing 00:08:05.783 --> 00:08:06.450 align:middle line:90% in on the plane. 00:08:06.450 --> 00:08:07.408 align:middle line:90% The casket's not there. 00:08:07.408 --> 00:08:08.280 align:middle line:90% It's in the back. 00:08:08.280 --> 00:08:11.160 align:middle line:90% Something happened to the body. 00:08:11.160 --> 00:08:12.030 align:middle line:90% She turned her back. 00:08:12.030 --> 00:08:16.267 align:middle line:90% 00:08:16.267 --> 00:08:17.850 align:middle line:84% But I always advocate that with poems. 00:08:17.850 --> 00:08:20.970 align:middle line:84% Turn your back on a poem for a while. 00:08:20.970 --> 00:08:24.120 align:middle line:84% Most poems change their own wounds 00:08:24.120 --> 00:08:26.220 align:middle line:90% while you are away from them. 00:08:26.220 --> 00:08:31.080 align:middle line:84% That day, all the poetic evidence was made to conflict-- 00:08:31.080 --> 00:08:34.230 align:middle line:84% films, photograph, witness testimony. 00:08:34.230 --> 00:08:35.940 align:middle line:90% They built in the conspiracy. 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:38.370 align:middle line:84% I love it when people say, you're a conspiracy theorist. 00:08:38.370 --> 00:08:40.620 align:middle line:84% And now, there's a new camp of people-- the conspiracy 00:08:40.620 --> 00:08:41.120 align:middle line:90% realists. 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.350 align:middle line:90% It's like the camps of poetry-- 00:08:43.350 --> 00:08:45.570 align:middle line:84% realist versus the romantics versus the images 00:08:45.570 --> 00:08:49.082 align:middle line:84% versus the surrealism, the conspiracy theorists. 00:08:49.082 --> 00:08:50.040 align:middle line:90% I don't know what I am. 00:08:50.040 --> 00:08:55.020 align:middle line:84% But I always look around what I'm told. 00:08:55.020 --> 00:08:57.990 align:middle line:90% That day, our memory was edited. 00:08:57.990 --> 00:09:00.807 align:middle line:90% 00:09:00.807 --> 00:09:02.640 align:middle line:84% You can't have a conspiracy unless you first 00:09:02.640 --> 00:09:05.550 align:middle line:84% have a social network, I said earlier. 00:09:05.550 --> 00:09:08.550 align:middle line:84% But the media isn't imaginative enough 00:09:08.550 --> 00:09:12.570 align:middle line:84% to talk about the role, that social network. 00:09:12.570 --> 00:09:15.390 align:middle line:84% We think it was invented by, well Facebook anyway, 00:09:15.390 --> 00:09:16.470 align:middle line:90% some kid at Harvard. 00:09:16.470 --> 00:09:21.398 align:middle line:84% And maybe time travel played in the Kennedy assassination. 00:09:21.398 --> 00:09:23.190 align:middle line:84% But it was in fact, the greatest organizing 00:09:23.190 --> 00:09:25.830 align:middle line:84% of pre-social network social networking ever displayed. 00:09:25.830 --> 00:09:29.640 align:middle line:84% Imagine what that says about the role of social networking 00:09:29.640 --> 00:09:30.900 align:middle line:90% in your life. 00:09:30.900 --> 00:09:33.450 align:middle line:84% The conspiracy of the self, maybe little conspiracies 00:09:33.450 --> 00:09:35.075 align:middle line:84% it's happening all the time, especially 00:09:35.075 --> 00:09:37.710 align:middle line:90% in confessional poetry, right? 00:09:37.710 --> 00:09:41.610 align:middle line:84% Confessional poetry depends upon conspiracy of the self. 00:09:41.610 --> 00:09:44.160 align:middle line:90% The assassination of this-- 00:09:44.160 --> 00:09:45.160 align:middle line:90% like this. 00:09:45.160 --> 00:09:46.050 align:middle line:90% We always like. 00:09:46.050 --> 00:09:46.590 align:middle line:90% I like that. 00:09:46.590 --> 00:09:48.510 align:middle line:90% Like, like, like. 00:09:48.510 --> 00:09:51.280 align:middle line:90% Dislike-- vanished. 00:09:51.280 --> 00:09:52.320 align:middle line:90% It's all agreement. 00:09:52.320 --> 00:09:56.220 align:middle line:84% You can't disagree in English unless you agree first, 00:09:56.220 --> 00:09:58.020 align:middle line:90% grammatically. 00:09:58.020 --> 00:10:00.367 align:middle line:84% The assassination of JFK also could not 00:10:00.367 --> 00:10:01.575 align:middle line:90% have happened without poetry. 00:10:01.575 --> 00:10:04.170 align:middle line:90% 00:10:04.170 --> 00:10:08.490 align:middle line:84% I read a lot of books of poetry in the past 30 years. 00:10:08.490 --> 00:10:13.710 align:middle line:84% And none of them, let me tell you, the way it dest-- not even 00:10:13.710 --> 00:10:16.140 align:middle line:90% The Waste Land, damn it. 00:10:16.140 --> 00:10:18.780 align:middle line:84% The way it destroys truth, the very thing 00:10:18.780 --> 00:10:25.310 align:middle line:84% that social networks live and die to imitate and eliminate. 00:10:25.310 --> 00:10:29.750 align:middle line:84% The Stemmons freeway sign, the freeway sign 00:10:29.750 --> 00:10:33.560 align:middle line:84% that JFK goes behind, they used that wisely, 00:10:33.560 --> 00:10:38.420 align:middle line:84% broke one of the lines of fire, broke one of the lines of fire. 00:10:38.420 --> 00:10:40.070 align:middle line:90% I see the clock. 00:10:40.070 --> 00:10:43.220 align:middle line:84% The poet is aging and cannot pay attention to or waste anymore 00:10:43.220 --> 00:10:44.720 align:middle line:90% commissions. 00:10:44.720 --> 00:10:48.780 align:middle line:84% He turned 50 on October the 5th, 2013, 00:10:48.780 --> 00:10:50.750 align:middle line:84% and was only 45 days old when he first 00:10:50.750 --> 00:10:55.040 align:middle line:90% encountered the guns of prose. 00:10:55.040 --> 00:10:57.980 align:middle line:84% The poet is a Libra, just like Oswald. 00:10:57.980 --> 00:11:04.856 align:middle line:84% Whose fault, fault line, fault line break, is this? 00:11:04.856 --> 00:11:09.440 align:middle line:84% This is Don DeLillo's fault for inventing the truth effectively 00:11:09.440 --> 00:11:10.640 align:middle line:90% on top of another truth. 00:11:10.640 --> 00:11:14.690 align:middle line:90% 00:11:14.690 --> 00:11:19.310 align:middle line:84% There are a few quasi lyric moments in the poem Zapruder 00:11:19.310 --> 00:11:22.850 align:middle line:84% that cover the lie with an attempt at nuance. 00:11:22.850 --> 00:11:27.470 align:middle line:84% But where was nuance on November 22, 1963? 00:11:27.470 --> 00:11:30.470 align:middle line:90% It was everywhere. 00:11:30.470 --> 00:11:33.470 align:middle line:84% In her memoir, Lady Bird Johnson writes, 00:11:33.470 --> 00:11:35.690 align:middle line:90% it all began so beautifully. 00:11:35.690 --> 00:11:40.190 align:middle line:84% One wonders if she eventually noticed the umbrella behaving 00:11:40.190 --> 00:11:41.270 align:middle line:90% like an angry verb. 00:11:41.270 --> 00:11:45.690 align:middle line:84% One wonders what she would think of-- harp. 00:11:45.690 --> 00:11:49.250 align:middle line:90% The weather was beautiful. 00:11:49.250 --> 00:11:51.230 align:middle line:84% One wonders what she would have said 00:11:51.230 --> 00:11:54.740 align:middle line:84% about the hurricane that was approaching 00:11:54.740 --> 00:11:57.860 align:middle line:90% New York City on 9/11. 00:11:57.860 --> 00:12:00.440 align:middle line:90% 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:02.570 align:middle line:90% It just turned around. 00:12:02.570 --> 00:12:04.640 align:middle line:90% Someone turned it around. 00:12:04.640 --> 00:12:07.130 align:middle line:84% The official story-- a single gunman 00:12:07.130 --> 00:12:08.900 align:middle line:84% fired three shots from a building 00:12:08.900 --> 00:12:11.990 align:middle line:90% that housed a poetry festival. 00:12:11.990 --> 00:12:14.870 align:middle line:84% You ever think about the School Book Depository? 00:12:14.870 --> 00:12:16.820 align:middle line:84% Talk about what that building was. 00:12:16.820 --> 00:12:19.370 align:middle line:84% Supposedly, Oswald was having lunch and reading. 00:12:19.370 --> 00:12:21.492 align:middle line:84% Having a Coke on his lunch break, 00:12:21.492 --> 00:12:23.450 align:middle line:84% photographed downstairs while the assassination 00:12:23.450 --> 00:12:24.630 align:middle line:90% was happening. 00:12:24.630 --> 00:12:28.310 align:middle line:84% One of the three shots was so Pulitzer, 00:12:28.310 --> 00:12:29.960 align:middle line:90% it was called The Magic Bullet. 00:12:29.960 --> 00:12:32.660 align:middle line:90% 00:12:32.660 --> 00:12:35.187 align:middle line:84% It was like the dancing bullet and shit. 00:12:35.187 --> 00:12:36.770 align:middle line:84% Long before the first shots was fired, 00:12:36.770 --> 00:12:38.728 align:middle line:84% it was clear that the Academy of American Poets 00:12:38.728 --> 00:12:41.780 align:middle line:84% had chosen to pen the assassination of poetry 00:12:41.780 --> 00:12:45.020 align:middle line:90% on spoken word. 00:12:45.020 --> 00:12:46.490 align:middle line:90% They do demonize. 00:12:46.490 --> 00:12:49.730 align:middle line:90% Spoken word is such an Oswald. 00:12:49.730 --> 00:12:53.600 align:middle line:84% What if, as many have suggested, the Zapruder film 00:12:53.600 --> 00:12:58.580 align:middle line:84% is fake and filled with re-timed footage, missing frames, 00:12:58.580 --> 00:12:59.540 align:middle line:90% switch frames? 00:12:59.540 --> 00:13:01.250 align:middle line:84% What if the back of the president's head, 00:13:01.250 --> 00:13:03.215 align:middle line:84% were countless witnesses say the wound was, 00:13:03.215 --> 00:13:05.357 align:middle line:90% has been blackened out? 00:13:05.357 --> 00:13:07.440 align:middle line:84% Didn't even think to look at the back of his head. 00:13:07.440 --> 00:13:08.930 align:middle line:90% You will next time. 00:13:08.930 --> 00:13:11.180 align:middle line:90% Magic, blackened out. 00:13:11.180 --> 00:13:14.010 align:middle line:84% What if the famous, brightly-colored wound, 00:13:14.010 --> 00:13:15.830 align:middle line:90% the wound that changes shape-- 00:13:15.830 --> 00:13:20.240 align:middle line:84% oh it does, the wound in the front temple-- 00:13:20.240 --> 00:13:23.630 align:middle line:84% think about what happens to a metaphor in a poem, 00:13:23.630 --> 00:13:26.570 align:middle line:90% is an animated forgery? 00:13:26.570 --> 00:13:31.830 align:middle line:84% Metaphors require destruction, violence, 00:13:31.830 --> 00:13:33.750 align:middle line:90% to work, similes, especially. 00:13:33.750 --> 00:13:37.671 align:middle line:84% You can't make a good simile without killing up something. 00:13:37.671 --> 00:13:38.940 align:middle line:90% Something has to become. 00:13:38.940 --> 00:13:42.610 align:middle line:84% They give you that like or as definition in the encyclopedia 00:13:42.610 --> 00:13:44.220 align:middle line:90% of poetics-- 00:13:44.220 --> 00:13:46.680 align:middle line:90% a comparison using like or as. 00:13:46.680 --> 00:13:50.460 align:middle line:84% They don't say, a comparison using rifles and knives 00:13:50.460 --> 00:13:52.200 align:middle line:90% and destruction. 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:56.458 align:middle line:84% You have destr-- best similes, they say, I can see it. 00:13:56.458 --> 00:13:58.500 align:middle line:84% But a new thing has to be born out of an old one. 00:13:58.500 --> 00:13:59.550 align:middle line:90% Something has to die. 00:13:59.550 --> 00:14:04.470 align:middle line:90% 00:14:04.470 --> 00:14:07.560 align:middle line:84% Is an animated forgery, an hallucination, and partially, 00:14:07.560 --> 00:14:08.362 align:middle line:90% a painting. 00:14:08.362 --> 00:14:09.945 align:middle line:84% Parts of what you saw were a painting. 00:14:09.945 --> 00:14:12.630 align:middle line:90% 00:14:12.630 --> 00:14:15.930 align:middle line:90% That would make the film a poem. 00:14:15.930 --> 00:14:18.150 align:middle line:84% That would make this poet ask, who 00:14:18.150 --> 00:14:19.980 align:middle line:84% were the poets and poetry institutions 00:14:19.980 --> 00:14:21.540 align:middle line:90% involved in the cover up? 00:14:21.540 --> 00:14:25.230 align:middle line:84% That would make this poet ask, did Abraham Zapruder really 00:14:25.230 --> 00:14:28.260 align:middle line:84% write with his camera, [? le ?] camera - stylo, 00:14:28.260 --> 00:14:33.420 align:middle line:84% the Zapruder poem, Or did Thomas Sayers Ellis? 00:14:33.420 --> 00:14:37.590 align:middle line:84% A cover up occurs in a poem when the line, which the Princeton 00:14:37.590 --> 00:14:39.690 align:middle line:84% encyclopedia of poetics defines as a unit of sound 00:14:39.690 --> 00:14:42.930 align:middle line:84% and unit of meaning, behaves in a linear fashion, 00:14:42.930 --> 00:14:46.650 align:middle line:84% such as simply stacking lines grammatically to make stanza. 00:14:46.650 --> 00:14:50.760 align:middle line:84% A cover up occurs in a poem when the technical devices 00:14:50.760 --> 00:14:53.490 align:middle line:84% of the poem, the operatives, are forced to operate 00:14:53.490 --> 00:14:55.890 align:middle line:90% in the poem in secrecy-- 00:14:55.890 --> 00:14:57.540 align:middle line:84% oh, yeah, JFK made that great speech 00:14:57.540 --> 00:15:00.000 align:middle line:84% about secret societies and the threat of them-- 00:15:00.000 --> 00:15:04.920 align:middle line:84% in secrecy and without the aid of the human senses. 00:15:04.920 --> 00:15:08.850 align:middle line:84% Nothing fuels a metaphor, rhyme, repetition, 00:15:08.850 --> 00:15:13.140 align:middle line:84% et cetera like sight, taste, smell, touch, and hearing. 00:15:13.140 --> 00:15:15.810 align:middle line:84% William Stafford once said, a line is a breathing walk. 00:15:15.810 --> 00:15:17.760 align:middle line:84% And shame-- Seamus Heaney once told me 00:15:17.760 --> 00:15:19.860 align:middle line:84% that a quatrain should behave like 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:22.530 align:middle line:84% its own respiratory system, pushing 00:15:22.530 --> 00:15:25.500 align:middle line:90% in and out like an accordion. 00:15:25.500 --> 00:15:27.120 align:middle line:90% But what of the back brace? 00:15:27.120 --> 00:15:28.740 align:middle line:84% Many of the most obvious breathing 00:15:28.740 --> 00:15:31.020 align:middle line:84% walks in Dallas that day occurred immediately 00:15:31.020 --> 00:15:33.030 align:middle line:90% after the last shots were fired. 00:15:33.030 --> 00:15:36.390 align:middle line:84% And this includes Secret Service agent Clint Hill's 00:15:36.390 --> 00:15:40.950 align:middle line:84% amazing, breathtaking run, not walk. 00:15:40.950 --> 00:15:44.640 align:middle line:84% You can't catch up with a speeding presidential limousine 00:15:44.640 --> 00:15:46.530 align:middle line:90% unless what? 00:15:46.530 --> 00:15:47.550 align:middle line:90% It stops. 00:15:47.550 --> 00:15:50.127 align:middle line:90% [? Lest ?] it say [? jurors. ?] 00:15:50.127 --> 00:15:51.960 align:middle line:84% By the time he reached the presidential car, 00:15:51.960 --> 00:15:53.520 align:middle line:84% the first lady was already in shock 00:15:53.520 --> 00:15:55.478 align:middle line:84% and had climbed onto the back of the limousine. 00:15:55.478 --> 00:15:57.810 align:middle line:84% Agent Hill then violently, per his testimony, 00:15:57.810 --> 00:15:59.760 align:middle line:90% shoved her back into the seat. 00:15:59.760 --> 00:16:03.000 align:middle line:84% Agent Hill then violently, per his testimony, 00:16:03.000 --> 00:16:05.490 align:middle line:90% shoved her back into a seat. 00:16:05.490 --> 00:16:07.800 align:middle line:90% You didn't see that. 00:16:07.800 --> 00:16:09.840 align:middle line:90% She even said it. 00:16:09.840 --> 00:16:13.470 align:middle line:84% He never touched her that way, she said, violently shoved her. 00:16:13.470 --> 00:16:14.640 align:middle line:90% No, no, no, no, no. 00:16:14.640 --> 00:16:16.770 align:middle line:90% TSE's Zapruder poem does not-- 00:16:16.770 --> 00:16:19.710 align:middle line:84% Zapruder poem does not show this because Zapruder's Zapruder 00:16:19.710 --> 00:16:21.940 align:middle line:90% film does not contain it. 00:16:21.940 --> 00:16:24.340 align:middle line:90% Poor TSE. 00:16:24.340 --> 00:16:28.200 align:middle line:84% He got paid for that poem, got a job, 00:16:28.200 --> 00:16:32.290 align:middle line:84% was considered better than other poets, a voice. 00:16:32.290 --> 00:16:35.080 align:middle line:84% Like in any effective simile, a truth must be invented. 00:16:35.080 --> 00:16:37.060 align:middle line:90% A truth must be destroyed. 00:16:37.060 --> 00:16:40.600 align:middle line:84% One witness, a lyric poet, says JFK stood up in the car 00:16:40.600 --> 00:16:42.370 align:middle line:84% after the first shot hit him in the back. 00:16:42.370 --> 00:16:46.570 align:middle line:84% A cover up occurs in a poem when the speaker of the poem 00:16:46.570 --> 00:16:52.428 align:middle line:84% solely performs the duty of a secretary to reality. 00:16:52.428 --> 00:16:54.970 align:middle line:84% This is what the late Reginald Shepherd once complained to me 00:16:54.970 --> 00:16:57.910 align:middle line:90% about in a phone call in 1994. 00:16:57.910 --> 00:17:00.970 align:middle line:84% He wanted to know why everyone was publishing and writing 00:17:00.970 --> 00:17:05.037 align:middle line:84% what he termed eyewitness news poetry. 00:17:05.037 --> 00:17:07.329 align:middle line:84% I asked him one night, why you going to like that book? 00:17:07.329 --> 00:17:09.730 align:middle line:84% I don't like eyewitness news poetry. 00:17:09.730 --> 00:17:12.579 align:middle line:90% I already saw the news. 00:17:12.579 --> 00:17:13.990 align:middle line:90% He had a point. 00:17:13.990 --> 00:17:16.930 align:middle line:90% I hung up with him. 00:17:16.930 --> 00:17:21.220 align:middle line:84% My Zapruder poem is eyewitness news poetry. 00:17:21.220 --> 00:17:27.069 align:middle line:84% A cover up in a poem occurs when the facts of the poem 00:17:27.069 --> 00:17:29.080 align:middle line:84% exist before the poem has been written. 00:17:29.080 --> 00:17:31.132 align:middle line:84% The facts of the poem exist before the poem 00:17:31.132 --> 00:17:31.840 align:middle line:90% has been written. 00:17:31.840 --> 00:17:34.630 align:middle line:84% And the poet writes his way toward a known ending, 00:17:34.630 --> 00:17:36.880 align:middle line:84% or one that is merely an exercise in approaching 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:38.980 align:middle line:90% a pre agreed upon truth. 00:17:38.980 --> 00:17:43.090 align:middle line:84% The only truth of the poem is prosody. 00:17:43.090 --> 00:17:45.760 align:middle line:84% The combination of prose and song, or as Robert Hayden 00:17:45.760 --> 00:17:49.630 align:middle line:84% put it, when something patterned, wild, and free, 00:17:49.630 --> 00:17:53.680 align:middle line:84% when something patterned, wild, and free is achieved. 00:17:53.680 --> 00:17:56.980 align:middle line:84% Was the switch from the original and linear motorcade route down 00:17:56.980 --> 00:17:59.920 align:middle line:84% Main Street through the page of Dealey Plaza to a turn-- 00:17:59.920 --> 00:18:03.550 align:middle line:84% to a turn on Houston, then a wide turn, neatly 00:18:03.550 --> 00:18:07.930 align:middle line:84% onto the sidewalk on Elm, an example of verse reversing? 00:18:07.930 --> 00:18:09.658 align:middle line:90% Well, I don't know. 00:18:09.658 --> 00:18:10.950 align:middle line:90% You have to ask J Edgar Hoover. 00:18:10.950 --> 00:18:12.820 align:middle line:84% Who is J Edgar Hoover on my list? 00:18:12.820 --> 00:18:14.920 align:middle line:90% Richard Howard. 00:18:14.920 --> 00:18:16.510 align:middle line:84% Neither of the three Zapruder poems, 00:18:16.510 --> 00:18:18.310 align:middle line:84% the one supposedly taken by Zapruder, 00:18:18.310 --> 00:18:22.810 align:middle line:84% or the one altered by the CIA at their own private Kinko's, 00:18:22.810 --> 00:18:25.060 align:middle line:84% or the one written by Thomas Sayers Ellis, 00:18:25.060 --> 00:18:28.390 align:middle line:84% indicates any evidence of either a wide turn on Elm, 00:18:28.390 --> 00:18:32.890 align:middle line:84% or a [? caesura ?] near the grassy knoll. 00:18:32.890 --> 00:18:35.380 align:middle line:84% Damn car stopped for two seconds. 00:18:35.380 --> 00:18:36.970 align:middle line:84% And that's when the head exploded. 00:18:36.970 --> 00:18:39.310 align:middle line:84% Another witness, a post Civil rights-- 00:18:39.310 --> 00:18:41.770 align:middle line:84% a post Civil rights surrealist poet says, 00:18:41.770 --> 00:18:44.380 align:middle line:84% the presidential limousine came to a complete stop. 00:18:44.380 --> 00:18:46.750 align:middle line:84% And then the back of the president's head, 00:18:46.750 --> 00:18:48.970 align:middle line:84% not the side or the front, was blasted out, 00:18:48.970 --> 00:18:50.860 align:middle line:84% splattering the face of Bobby Hargis, 00:18:50.860 --> 00:18:54.560 align:middle line:84% a police officer riding behind the limousine on a motorcycle. 00:18:54.560 --> 00:18:57.730 align:middle line:90% The documents do not match. 00:18:57.730 --> 00:18:59.740 align:middle line:84% But that sometimes works in poetry. 00:18:59.740 --> 00:19:01.750 align:middle line:84% The documents do not match, so the poet 00:19:01.750 --> 00:19:05.800 align:middle line:84% is encouraged to engage the width of the act, 00:19:05.800 --> 00:19:11.050 align:middle line:84% not in one poem, but in a very trendy series of poems. 00:19:11.050 --> 00:19:14.200 align:middle line:84% No version of the Zapruder poem except the original one 00:19:14.200 --> 00:19:15.940 align:middle line:90% contains the caesura. 00:19:15.940 --> 00:19:18.910 align:middle line:84% And that has only been seen by a handful of poets and poetry 00:19:18.910 --> 00:19:20.530 align:middle line:90% editors. 00:19:20.530 --> 00:19:24.340 align:middle line:84% I've only met five people who say they've seen that. 00:19:24.340 --> 00:19:27.100 align:middle line:84% They say, and this is true, this is what they say. 00:19:27.100 --> 00:19:29.950 align:middle line:84% They say every time a new president comes into office, 00:19:29.950 --> 00:19:33.550 align:middle line:84% they show them the original Zapruder film. 00:19:33.550 --> 00:19:36.760 align:middle line:90% Why would they do that? 00:19:36.760 --> 00:19:40.000 align:middle line:84% That's why you can't get what you want. 00:19:40.000 --> 00:19:41.830 align:middle line:84% I know if I was Barack and they showed me 00:19:41.830 --> 00:19:43.510 align:middle line:90% that, I'd be like, yeah. 00:19:43.510 --> 00:19:45.580 align:middle line:90% But he already knew. 00:19:45.580 --> 00:19:47.815 align:middle line:84% Can we, by judging the work of poets we've read, 00:19:47.815 --> 00:19:50.440 align:middle line:84% the shape of their content, and their particular and individual 00:19:50.440 --> 00:19:53.350 align:middle line:84% brand of innuendo, take a stab at some 00:19:53.350 --> 00:19:57.310 align:middle line:84% of the poets who may have seen the original z poem film? 00:19:57.310 --> 00:19:59.200 align:middle line:84% I think that some poem-- some poets, 00:19:59.200 --> 00:20:02.320 align:middle line:84% in their talented, visionary way, have seen it. 00:20:02.320 --> 00:20:03.370 align:middle line:90% I think so. 00:20:03.370 --> 00:20:04.992 align:middle line:90% But it's a very short list. 00:20:04.992 --> 00:20:06.200 align:middle line:90% I know my time's running out. 00:20:06.200 --> 00:20:08.320 align:middle line:84% Let me give you a taste of that list. 00:20:08.320 --> 00:20:12.040 align:middle line:84% Here's a-- this is a work of fiction, OK? 00:20:12.040 --> 00:20:14.530 align:middle line:84% I'm judging by what's in the book. 00:20:14.530 --> 00:20:18.280 align:middle line:84% Adrienne Rich, that's why I love her, because she's seen it. 00:20:18.280 --> 00:20:20.680 align:middle line:84% In Diving into the Wreck, she tried 00:20:20.680 --> 00:20:23.485 align:middle line:84% to explain to us exactly what occurred at Bethesda-- 00:20:23.485 --> 00:20:24.930 align:middle line:90% at the Bethesda autopsy-- 00:20:24.930 --> 00:20:27.430 align:middle line:84% how the body and wounds were altered to support the official 00:20:27.430 --> 00:20:29.290 align:middle line:84% poetics, while the wounds on the photographs 00:20:29.290 --> 00:20:31.415 align:middle line:84% contradict the wounds as described by the witnesses 00:20:31.415 --> 00:20:33.340 align:middle line:84% and as they appear in the z poem film, which 00:20:33.340 --> 00:20:35.110 align:middle line:90% contradicts everything. 00:20:35.110 --> 00:20:36.880 align:middle line:84% Another witness, Timothy Donnelly-- 00:20:36.880 --> 00:20:38.422 align:middle line:84% I don't know if you know Timothy yet. 00:20:38.422 --> 00:20:40.780 align:middle line:84% He's a young poet, my age poet, a little younger. 00:20:40.780 --> 00:20:43.060 align:middle line:84% Although he wasn't actually alive at the time-- 00:20:43.060 --> 00:20:45.310 align:middle line:84% you don't have to be alive to know. 00:20:45.310 --> 00:20:47.980 align:middle line:84% The truth just floats in the air when you breathe. 00:20:47.980 --> 00:20:49.750 align:middle line:84% The Cloud Corporation, his last book, 00:20:49.750 --> 00:20:52.900 align:middle line:84% explores the limitations of the Kennedy cabinet, most of whom 00:20:52.900 --> 00:20:54.730 align:middle line:84% were trapped in a plane overseas when 00:20:54.730 --> 00:20:56.170 align:middle line:90% the assassination occurred. 00:20:56.170 --> 00:20:58.480 align:middle line:90% They saw it all. 00:20:58.480 --> 00:21:01.090 align:middle line:84% They were put up there not to see, right? 00:21:01.090 --> 00:21:02.680 align:middle line:84% Pierre Salinger and that whole crew, 00:21:02.680 --> 00:21:04.810 align:middle line:84% they saw it all, including the Federal caesura 00:21:04.810 --> 00:21:08.260 align:middle line:84% and the four teams of shooter poets and spotters 00:21:08.260 --> 00:21:10.000 align:middle line:90% from the sky. 00:21:10.000 --> 00:21:12.310 align:middle line:84% I'm going to skip the next two parts because of time. 00:21:12.310 --> 00:21:16.847 align:middle line:84% A cover up occurs in a poem when the poem is governed by story 00:21:16.847 --> 00:21:18.430 align:middle line:84% and when the lyric impulse of the poem 00:21:18.430 --> 00:21:20.750 align:middle line:84% has been removed by a series of complete thoughts 00:21:20.750 --> 00:21:22.780 align:middle line:84% to design to weaken the atmospheric structural 00:21:22.780 --> 00:21:24.350 align:middle line:90% and equity of the poem. 00:21:24.350 --> 00:21:26.480 align:middle line:84% When this occurs, the poem will most likely 00:21:26.480 --> 00:21:29.480 align:middle line:84% fall victim to serious series writing, 00:21:29.480 --> 00:21:35.578 align:middle line:84% to story, to old possums book of practical cats, to Broadway. 00:21:35.578 --> 00:21:38.120 align:middle line:84% I predict that there will be a Kennedy assassination Broadway 00:21:38.120 --> 00:21:39.655 align:middle line:90% play in a few years. 00:21:39.655 --> 00:21:41.030 align:middle line:84% [INAUDIBLE] what they'll call it. 00:21:41.030 --> 00:21:43.900 align:middle line:90% 00:21:43.900 --> 00:21:48.730 align:middle line:84% When this occurs, serious drinking, dreaming, 00:21:48.730 --> 00:21:55.900 align:middle line:84% and suspicious witness poetry suicides also occur. 00:21:55.900 --> 00:22:01.120 align:middle line:84% The poets who kill JFK all met at a conference 00:22:01.120 --> 00:22:06.640 align:middle line:84% and were students of textual and spoken social engineering. 00:22:06.640 --> 00:22:10.960 align:middle line:84% The poets who kill JFK all went to graduate school 00:22:10.960 --> 00:22:14.320 align:middle line:84% and studied the uses of free energy, 00:22:14.320 --> 00:22:16.510 align:middle line:84% the leaping poetics of time travel, 00:22:16.510 --> 00:22:20.050 align:middle line:90% and theological alchemy. 00:22:20.050 --> 00:22:25.420 align:middle line:84% The poets who killed JFK all work for politicians-- 00:22:25.420 --> 00:22:31.690 align:middle line:84% the infotainment division of the military industrial complex. 00:22:31.690 --> 00:22:35.320 align:middle line:84% Remember Dwight Eisenhower was charged with me-- 00:22:35.320 --> 00:22:37.480 align:middle line:90% charged with meaning Ezra Pond-- 00:22:37.480 --> 00:22:41.110 align:middle line:84% Ezra Pound-like warning to the incoming Kennedy 00:22:41.110 --> 00:22:43.480 align:middle line:90% administration? 00:22:43.480 --> 00:22:46.860 align:middle line:84% How do we [? identify ?] these poets, 00:22:46.860 --> 00:22:52.060 align:middle line:90% the poets who killed JFK? 00:22:52.060 --> 00:22:55.000 align:middle line:84% Their work, their poetics, is recogniza-- 00:22:55.000 --> 00:22:57.400 align:middle line:84% recognizable for its tendency to behave 00:22:57.400 --> 00:23:04.465 align:middle line:84% like a black op within a psyop within a false flag 00:23:04.465 --> 00:23:06.025 align:middle line:90% within an unknowable truth. 00:23:06.025 --> 00:23:10.180 align:middle line:90% 00:23:10.180 --> 00:23:16.420 align:middle line:84% The poets who killed JFK are the same ones helping the Pope 00:23:16.420 --> 00:23:19.870 align:middle line:90% collect meteorites. 00:23:19.870 --> 00:23:21.940 align:middle line:90% Why did they do it? 00:23:21.940 --> 00:23:26.260 align:middle line:90% To invent, destroy, you. 00:23:26.260 --> 00:23:27.160 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:23:27.160 --> 00:23:28.695 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:23:28.695 --> 00:23:29.195 align:middle line:90%