WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.790 align:middle line:90% 00:00:08.790 --> 00:00:13.300 align:middle line:84% The first line of this poem plays the car Saab S-A-A-B 00:00:13.300 --> 00:00:20.220 align:middle line:84% and sob S-O-B The real estate agent drops in unexpectedly. 00:00:20.220 --> 00:00:22.090 align:middle line:90% I hate her Saab. 00:00:22.090 --> 00:00:24.150 align:middle line:84% Her sob too, which I can hear through 00:00:24.150 --> 00:00:26.280 align:middle line:90% the space-time continuum. 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:30.630 align:middle line:84% She cried once, and now, she opens my door unannounced, 00:00:30.630 --> 00:00:32.520 align:middle line:90% an ounce of apology. 00:00:32.520 --> 00:00:36.090 align:middle line:84% It was there once in the space-time continuum. 00:00:36.090 --> 00:00:40.440 align:middle line:84% In present, she says, I won't say ain't around you, 00:00:40.440 --> 00:00:41.820 align:middle line:90% or I better not. 00:00:41.820 --> 00:00:44.580 align:middle line:84% She must have read my manifesto, my I 00:00:44.580 --> 00:00:48.180 align:middle line:84% will kill users of colloquial contractions. 00:00:48.180 --> 00:00:52.410 align:middle line:84% I'm hard core, on the corner afraid to go home. 00:00:52.410 --> 00:00:56.250 align:middle line:84% I am a hole, a hole in one, she must think. 00:00:56.250 --> 00:00:58.770 align:middle line:90% Please, miss, I promise. 00:00:58.770 --> 00:01:01.500 align:middle line:84% I will place a pink bow on my door, 00:01:01.500 --> 00:01:05.160 align:middle line:84% on my pretty, little head, and trim my toenails 00:01:05.160 --> 00:01:09.090 align:middle line:84% and tell the prospective buyers of my undying love. 00:01:09.090 --> 00:01:13.770 align:middle line:84% I will empty my lungs, shouting, bye, bye, at the corner for you 00:01:13.770 --> 00:01:16.890 align:middle line:84% with my clean teeth, my big heart. 00:01:16.890 --> 00:01:21.240 align:middle line:84% I am doing it now in space-time in the continuum. 00:01:21.240 --> 00:01:22.620 align:middle line:90% Can't you see? 00:01:22.620 --> 00:01:25.350 align:middle line:84% Can you pick up the phone and call? 00:01:25.350 --> 00:01:29.480 align:middle line:84% I am missing your voice, your clean teeth. 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:30.000 align:middle line:90%