WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.500 align:middle line:84% If any of you in the audience happen 00:00:01.500 --> 00:00:04.260 align:middle line:84% to have either the The Alphabet or Demo To Ink, 00:00:04.260 --> 00:00:09.738 align:middle line:84% you'll find my portion of this process under the work Hidden. 00:00:09.738 --> 00:00:12.730 align:middle line:90% 00:00:12.730 --> 00:00:14.350 align:middle line:90% Is this form? 00:00:14.350 --> 00:00:18.180 align:middle line:84% My mother comes home from her date with both eyes blackened. 00:00:18.180 --> 00:00:35.790 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.790 --> 00:00:40.830 align:middle line:84% The perfectly overcast sky gives even this glade an indoor feel 00:00:40.830 --> 00:00:44.910 align:middle line:84% like swimming in too chlorinated water the way antihistamines 00:00:44.910 --> 00:00:48.570 align:middle line:84% clear sinuses while they cloud the mind. 00:00:48.570 --> 00:00:52.110 align:middle line:84% A weaving pressed against the damp clay dish 00:00:52.110 --> 00:00:55.950 align:middle line:84% will leave a residue of texture beneath the brown glaze. 00:00:55.950 --> 00:01:01.118 align:middle line:84% We roll when first we wake, and before we rise. 00:01:01.118 --> 00:01:04.611 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:01:04.611 --> 00:01:37.070 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.070 --> 00:01:39.840 align:middle line:90% Row houses I say. 00:01:39.840 --> 00:01:42.487 align:middle line:90% this way. 00:01:42.487 --> 00:01:45.980 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:01:45.980 --> 00:01:53.480 align:middle line:90% 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:56.900 align:middle line:84% The eyes of all raced to the line fall silent. 00:01:56.900 --> 00:02:00.110 align:middle line:84% In Britain, monarchy is but a theme park. 00:02:00.110 --> 00:02:02.900 align:middle line:84% The thick brush of the blackboard's eraser 00:02:02.900 --> 00:02:07.970 align:middle line:84% is entirely sensuous-- chalk dust smells sweet. 00:02:07.970 --> 00:02:13.244 align:middle line:84% The art of park sprinklers, automatic in the summer rain. 00:02:13.244 --> 00:02:16.730 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:02:16.730 --> 00:02:38.690 align:middle line:90% 00:02:38.690 --> 00:02:42.020 align:middle line:84% T-shirt beneath linen sport-jacket, collar up, 00:02:42.020 --> 00:02:45.260 align:middle line:84% is this year's fashion for about six weeks. 00:02:45.260 --> 00:02:49.580 align:middle line:84% Realism, so-called, alienates, by virtue of the shell posed 00:02:49.580 --> 00:02:51.020 align:middle line:90% around objects. 00:02:51.020 --> 00:02:55.640 align:middle line:84% The eye, neither flesh nor hair, absolutely other, glistens. 00:02:55.640 --> 00:02:59.780 align:middle line:84% The hand squeezes into a fist, about to vote. 00:02:59.780 --> 00:03:00.830 align:middle line:90% I wrote that. 00:03:00.830 --> 00:03:05.120 align:middle line:84% I write on the bus, in a subway, pleased by the smoother motion, 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:07.280 align:middle line:90% sensations of speed. 00:03:07.280 --> 00:03:11.330 align:middle line:84% Blonde hair turning gray, a woman in a short skirt 00:03:11.330 --> 00:03:14.192 align:middle line:90% walks in the rain. 00:03:14.192 --> 00:03:17.650 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:03:17.650 --> 00:03:43.350 align:middle line:90% 00:03:43.350 --> 00:03:46.410 align:middle line:84% Further questions-- is recurrence itself 00:03:46.410 --> 00:03:48.540 align:middle line:90% sufficient to state theme? 00:03:48.540 --> 00:03:52.710 align:middle line:84% I rest my vase and, jammed by brigands on a voyage 00:03:52.710 --> 00:03:56.670 align:middle line:84% to fetch groceries, that which is merely accessible soon 00:03:56.670 --> 00:03:58.402 align:middle line:90% blocks. 00:03:58.402 --> 00:04:01.839 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:04:01.839 --> 00:04:22.980 align:middle line:90% 00:04:22.980 --> 00:04:27.300 align:middle line:84% Mondo condo, in the epic of ear cuffs and jelly bracelets, 00:04:27.300 --> 00:04:29.160 align:middle line:90% bowling alleys decline. 00:04:29.160 --> 00:04:32.640 align:middle line:84% Everyone into software in time to flood the market-- 00:04:32.640 --> 00:04:38.538 align:middle line:84% canned meat, history in slices fit for Xeroxaria. 00:04:38.538 --> 00:04:41.961 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:04:41.961 --> 00:04:57.610 align:middle line:90% 00:04:57.610 --> 00:05:00.580 align:middle line:84% Argue out of anger and to wit halfway, 00:05:00.580 --> 00:05:02.290 align:middle line:90% with a long blue dress. 00:05:02.290 --> 00:05:04.990 align:middle line:90% But on roller skates he glides-- 00:05:04.990 --> 00:05:06.280 align:middle line:90% not a typo. 00:05:06.280 --> 00:05:09.430 align:middle line:84% Red fish in a tank at a Chinese market. 00:05:09.430 --> 00:05:14.482 align:middle line:84% When I drive cab, all lives are in danger 00:05:14.482 --> 00:05:17.940 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:05:17.940 --> 00:05:41.690 align:middle line:90% 00:05:41.690 --> 00:05:45.410 align:middle line:84% Rose ties Cobb in tie game with Cubs. 00:05:45.410 --> 00:05:48.860 align:middle line:84% Sun throws billowing clouds into sharp relief. 00:05:48.860 --> 00:05:53.690 align:middle line:84% Hand thrust into a vat of hot tar on $5 bet. 00:05:53.690 --> 00:05:58.462 align:middle line:84% The dependency, being chemical, is passed on. 00:05:58.462 --> 00:06:01.934 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:06:01.934 --> 00:06:28.720 align:middle line:90% 00:06:28.720 --> 00:06:31.810 align:middle line:84% At noon, a beer would stem the withdrawal. 00:06:31.810 --> 00:06:33.880 align:middle line:90% Drumbeat of Iams and blood. 00:06:33.880 --> 00:06:36.610 align:middle line:84% I will not make fun of the poem, chalked 00:06:36.610 --> 00:06:39.130 align:middle line:90% on a blackboard 500 times. 00:06:39.130 --> 00:06:42.581 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:06:42.581 --> 00:07:11.710 align:middle line:90% 00:07:11.710 --> 00:07:13.720 align:middle line:90% Wipe that slate green. 00:07:13.720 --> 00:07:17.890 align:middle line:84% Coin-op, oil-based reviews present mock critique. 00:07:17.890 --> 00:07:21.730 align:middle line:84% House at the hilltop offers generous vista, soon 00:07:21.730 --> 00:07:23.904 align:middle line:90% to be blocked by condo. 00:07:23.904 --> 00:07:27.362 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:07:27.362 --> 00:07:33.300 align:middle line:90% 00:07:33.300 --> 00:07:36.210 align:middle line:84% Nickname fit for a collie, burned flesh 00:07:36.210 --> 00:07:39.210 align:middle line:84% has long since dropped from your bones. 00:07:39.210 --> 00:07:43.410 align:middle line:84% Genetic abstraction forms a tradition, clumsily. 00:07:43.410 --> 00:07:46.560 align:middle line:84% Thick sour smell of restaurant dumpster, 00:07:46.560 --> 00:07:48.810 align:middle line:84% or that you would call your clothing 00:07:48.810 --> 00:07:52.470 align:middle line:84% concept Banana Republic only to sell out to a chain, 00:07:52.470 --> 00:07:54.210 align:middle line:90% and this The Gap. 00:07:54.210 --> 00:07:57.957 align:middle line:90% Stop Muni fare hike. 00:07:57.957 --> 00:08:01.450 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:08:01.450 --> 00:08:25.940 align:middle line:90% 00:08:25.940 --> 00:08:27.770 align:middle line:90% These are just the facts. 00:08:27.770 --> 00:08:32.390 align:middle line:84% Neo-punk bank officers formed a self-help network database. 00:08:32.390 --> 00:08:34.980 align:middle line:90% New wave or no wave, now. 00:08:34.980 --> 00:08:38.410 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:08:38.410 --> 00:08:45.770 align:middle line:90% 00:08:45.770 --> 00:08:49.460 align:middle line:84% Baby finger roams in nostril up to the second knuckle. 00:08:49.460 --> 00:08:51.980 align:middle line:84% Young man shoulders bottled water, 00:08:51.980 --> 00:08:54.920 align:middle line:84% another drives a Toyota with a paint brush 00:08:54.920 --> 00:08:56.720 align:middle line:90% clenched between his teeth. 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.830 align:middle line:84% Land-o-lawns if you don't mean it to be a portrait 00:09:00.830 --> 00:09:02.969 align:middle line:90% don't put me in it. 00:09:02.969 --> 00:09:06.392 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:09:06.392 --> 00:09:25.490 align:middle line:90% 00:09:25.490 --> 00:09:29.510 align:middle line:84% Thus, one book follows another, only partly a corrective, 00:09:29.510 --> 00:09:31.920 align:middle line:84% spreading new errors all its own. 00:09:31.920 --> 00:09:34.790 align:middle line:84% And these are more powerful, rapt reason 00:09:34.790 --> 00:09:37.790 align:middle line:84% is apt to get you shot, like a car bomb 00:09:37.790 --> 00:09:41.240 align:middle line:84% trapped in rush hour gridlock, with only three shopping 00:09:41.240 --> 00:09:43.100 align:middle line:90% days left before Christmas. 00:09:43.100 --> 00:09:45.290 align:middle line:84% The window displays are stunning. 00:09:45.290 --> 00:09:51.275 align:middle line:84% The muzak seductively familiar, though you barely can hear it 00:09:51.275 --> 00:09:54.670 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:09:54.670 --> 00:10:05.350 align:middle line:90% 00:10:05.350 --> 00:10:08.170 align:middle line:84% Bagpipes blare out into the afternoon 00:10:08.170 --> 00:10:11.401 align:middle line:90% from within a dark cavern. 00:10:11.401 --> 00:10:14.880 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:10:14.880 --> 00:10:34.800 align:middle line:90% 00:10:34.800 --> 00:10:37.800 align:middle line:84% Bored cabbie leans out yellow window. 00:10:37.800 --> 00:10:39.630 align:middle line:90% Thrill mixed with terror-- 00:10:39.630 --> 00:10:41.460 align:middle line:90% first day of high school. 00:10:41.460 --> 00:10:44.970 align:middle line:84% Slip aboard crowded bus through back door. 00:10:44.970 --> 00:10:47.550 align:middle line:84% When I crouch to write, toes of my right 00:10:47.550 --> 00:10:51.330 align:middle line:84% foot always firm against the walk, heel up, 00:10:51.330 --> 00:10:53.850 align:middle line:90% on top of which I rest my butt. 00:10:53.850 --> 00:10:57.180 align:middle line:84% Left leg turned out, almost perpendicular, 00:10:57.180 --> 00:11:01.058 align:middle line:84% the body a base, my own best desk. 00:11:01.058 --> 00:11:05.050 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:11:05.050 --> 00:11:34.530 align:middle line:90% 00:11:34.530 --> 00:11:38.970 align:middle line:84% One size fits all cereal bowl used now for soup. 00:11:38.970 --> 00:11:42.270 align:middle line:84% The way you shove to slam shut car door. 00:11:42.270 --> 00:11:45.817 align:middle line:84% Why so many women hate sex, is men. 00:11:45.817 --> 00:11:49.226 align:middle line:90% [MUSIC PLAYING] 00:11:49.226 --> 00:12:03.360 align:middle line:90% 00:12:03.360 --> 00:12:06.240 align:middle line:84% Nails once painted, now a chipped purple. 00:12:06.240 --> 00:12:09.210 align:middle line:84% Aluminum quad cane, lightweight on purpose. 00:12:09.210 --> 00:12:13.110 align:middle line:84% Sign on lifeboat shell plastic point apparatus, 00:12:13.110 --> 00:12:15.830 align:middle line:90% wait for light to read.