WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:02.970 align:middle line:90% This is the final poem. 00:00:02.970 --> 00:00:05.460 align:middle line:84% It's also a contrapuntal, so it's 00:00:05.460 --> 00:00:07.020 align:middle line:84% read three different ways it's short. 00:00:07.020 --> 00:00:10.000 align:middle line:90% 00:00:10.000 --> 00:00:14.650 align:middle line:84% Thank you for being with me in this space. 00:00:14.650 --> 00:00:19.810 align:middle line:84% "Contrapuntal, the myth they made to survive." 00:00:19.810 --> 00:00:22.960 align:middle line:90% I'll read the left column first. 00:00:22.960 --> 00:00:26.530 align:middle line:84% "She never cries until she is in the car. 00:00:26.530 --> 00:00:30.130 align:middle line:90% She made that rule on day one. 00:00:30.130 --> 00:00:33.790 align:middle line:84% He could believe in a myth if he wanted. 00:00:33.790 --> 00:00:38.545 align:middle line:84% She would be his myth if it helped him keep living." 00:00:38.545 --> 00:00:41.640 align:middle line:90% 00:00:41.640 --> 00:00:44.640 align:middle line:84% "She never cries until she is home, 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:48.630 align:middle line:84% or in the steam of the shower, or until she's in the car, 00:00:48.630 --> 00:00:52.980 align:middle line:84% until she can be made wholly alone with no one watching. 00:00:52.980 --> 00:00:56.040 align:middle line:84% She made that rule trying to save herself 00:00:56.040 --> 00:00:58.770 align:middle line:90% from the agony of tenderness. 00:00:58.770 --> 00:01:03.510 align:middle line:84% On day one she held it in until she choked and threw up. 00:01:03.510 --> 00:01:08.620 align:middle line:84% If he could believe she was OK, was willing, was waiting, 00:01:08.620 --> 00:01:11.400 align:middle line:84% she could live in a myth if he wanted. 00:01:11.400 --> 00:01:15.720 align:middle line:84% Inside a myth where there were two gods equally insane. 00:01:15.720 --> 00:01:21.270 align:middle line:84% She would be his equal, willing to turn stone, turn tree bark, 00:01:21.270 --> 00:01:23.970 align:middle line:84% turn from real to myth if it helped 00:01:23.970 --> 00:01:27.960 align:middle line:84% something impossible to keep her untouchable. 00:01:27.960 --> 00:01:30.270 align:middle line:84% And she could help him keep living, 00:01:30.270 --> 00:01:33.600 align:middle line:84% create any world she wanted as long as it 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:36.870 align:middle line:90% ended with set free." 00:01:36.870 --> 00:01:41.640 align:middle line:84% And the last part of the poem, the last column. 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:45.270 align:middle line:84% "Until she is home, or in the steam of the shower, 00:01:45.270 --> 00:01:50.520 align:middle line:84% or until she can be wholly alone with no one watching, 00:01:50.520 --> 00:01:54.630 align:middle line:84% trying to save herself from the agony of tenderness. 00:01:54.630 --> 00:01:59.790 align:middle line:84% She held it in until she choked and threw up. 00:01:59.790 --> 00:02:04.390 align:middle line:84% If she was OK, was willing, was waiting, 00:02:04.390 --> 00:02:07.240 align:middle line:84% she could live inside a myth where they 00:02:07.240 --> 00:02:10.440 align:middle line:90% were two gods equally insane. 00:02:10.440 --> 00:02:14.490 align:middle line:84% Equal, willing to turn stone, turn tree bark, 00:02:14.490 --> 00:02:18.570 align:middle line:84% turn from real to something impossible to keep 00:02:18.570 --> 00:02:20.370 align:middle line:90% her untouchable. 00:02:20.370 --> 00:02:26.040 align:middle line:84% And she could create any world she wanted as long 00:02:26.040 --> 00:02:30.660 align:middle line:90% as it ended with set free." 00:02:30.660 --> 00:02:32.540 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:02:32.540 --> 00:02:33.120 align:middle line:90%