WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.720 --> 00:00:06.900 align:middle line:84% I'd like to read another maybe more pervasively than I think-- 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:09.840 align:middle line:90% "A Dedication." 00:00:09.840 --> 00:00:13.680 align:middle line:90% We stood by the library. 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:16.410 align:middle line:90% It was an August night. 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:20.940 align:middle line:84% Priests and sisters of hundreds of unsaid creeds. 00:00:20.940 --> 00:00:26.100 align:middle line:84% Pastors going their separate pondered roads. 00:00:26.100 --> 00:00:31.170 align:middle line:84% We watched them cross under the corner light. 00:00:31.170 --> 00:00:33.840 align:middle line:84% Freights on the edge of town were carrying away 00:00:33.840 --> 00:00:39.210 align:middle line:84% flat cars of steel to be made into secret guns. 00:00:39.210 --> 00:00:45.900 align:middle line:84% We knew being human, that they were enemy guns. 00:00:45.900 --> 00:00:50.220 align:middle line:84% And we were somehow vowed to poverty. 00:00:50.220 --> 00:00:54.750 align:middle line:84% No one stopped or looked long or held out a hand. 00:00:54.750 --> 00:00:59.070 align:middle line:84% They were following orders received from hour to hour. 00:00:59.070 --> 00:01:04.590 align:middle line:84% So many signals all strange from a foreign power. 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:10.710 align:middle line:84% But tomorrow, you said, peace may flow over the land. 00:01:10.710 --> 00:01:15.600 align:middle line:84% At that corner in a flash of lightning, we too stood. 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:20.670 align:middle line:84% That glimpse we had will stare through the dark forever. 00:01:20.670 --> 00:01:26.070 align:middle line:84% On the poorest roads we would be walkers and beggars 00:01:26.070 --> 00:01:30.435 align:middle line:84% towards some deathless meeting involving a crust of bread. 00:01:30.435 --> 00:01:33.930 align:middle line:90% 00:01:33.930 --> 00:01:38.510 align:middle line:84% Now, one reason I plunged for this 00:01:38.510 --> 00:01:41.195 align:middle line:84% to try to make a point in the program is-- 00:01:41.195 --> 00:01:43.820 align:middle line:90% 00:01:43.820 --> 00:01:45.740 align:middle line:90% I feel this is like vivisection. 00:01:45.740 --> 00:01:49.370 align:middle line:84% Some were sacrificed so that others may more fully live. 00:01:49.370 --> 00:01:52.220 align:middle line:90% So with this poem I look-- 00:01:52.220 --> 00:01:54.230 align:middle line:90% We stood by the library. 00:01:54.230 --> 00:01:57.590 align:middle line:90% This is geographical. 00:01:57.590 --> 00:02:02.860 align:middle line:84% But also that's a pretty good thing to do. 00:02:02.860 --> 00:02:06.530 align:middle line:84% It's sort of political, you'll forgive me for a minute. 00:02:06.530 --> 00:02:08.810 align:middle line:90% We stood by the library. 00:02:08.810 --> 00:02:11.060 align:middle line:90% It was an August night. 00:02:11.060 --> 00:02:16.490 align:middle line:84% Now, later it gets more elaborately like this 00:02:16.490 --> 00:02:21.020 align:middle line:84% when it says priests and sisters of hundreds of unsaid creeds. 00:02:21.020 --> 00:02:24.710 align:middle line:84% And so it begins to draft to language 00:02:24.710 --> 00:02:26.250 align:middle line:90% and all sorts of things. 00:02:26.250 --> 00:02:29.420 align:middle line:84% But what I'm thinking about is that maybe every day, 00:02:29.420 --> 00:02:34.220 align:middle line:84% the speech we use every day is full of these 00:02:34.220 --> 00:02:37.820 align:middle line:84% we stood by the library little things you know. 00:02:37.820 --> 00:02:40.710 align:middle line:84% It's not much and you may not know it, 00:02:40.710 --> 00:02:42.920 align:middle line:90% but it's having an effect. 00:02:42.920 --> 00:02:50.020 align:middle line:84% And composition is organizing effects, maybe.