WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.860 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.860 --> 00:00:03.270 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Sean, very much. 00:00:03.270 --> 00:00:10.110 align:middle line:84% And thanks to Annie, and Gail, and Cybele and everyone 00:00:10.110 --> 00:00:11.230 align:middle line:90% for having us here. 00:00:11.230 --> 00:00:15.120 align:middle line:90% It's been a really great day. 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:17.490 align:middle line:84% I want to thank-- is Janice here? 00:00:17.490 --> 00:00:19.618 align:middle line:84% Thank you so much for letting us come to your class 00:00:19.618 --> 00:00:20.535 align:middle line:90% with all the students. 00:00:20.535 --> 00:00:24.660 align:middle line:90% 00:00:24.660 --> 00:00:30.390 align:middle line:84% I guess I have to begin with, well, 00:00:30.390 --> 00:00:34.980 align:middle line:84% one part of an apology, and one part, somewhat, introduction. 00:00:34.980 --> 00:00:38.340 align:middle line:90% 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:41.670 align:middle line:84% I was telling Rusty before a few minutes ago 00:00:41.670 --> 00:00:49.200 align:middle line:84% that I'm somewhat embarrassed in a venue like this by the fact 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:53.410 align:middle line:84% that the poems contain some of what my kids called grown up 00:00:53.410 --> 00:00:53.910 align:middle line:90% words. 00:00:53.910 --> 00:00:57.790 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:57.790 --> 00:01:00.420 align:middle line:84% So I hope, you know, it doesn't bother anybody too much. 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:04.440 align:middle line:84% I can't seem to do without these words. 00:01:04.440 --> 00:01:09.520 align:middle line:84% And also, just to say a bit about-- 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:14.550 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read a new sequence. 00:01:14.550 --> 00:01:17.610 align:middle line:84% And I was very excited, because I sort of timed it out 00:01:17.610 --> 00:01:21.510 align:middle line:84% and it came very close to 20 minutes. 00:01:21.510 --> 00:01:24.600 align:middle line:84% But I feel badly that I'm not reading something 00:01:24.600 --> 00:01:26.556 align:middle line:84% from the stuff that's already published. 00:01:26.556 --> 00:01:29.250 align:middle line:90% So, you know, what can you do? 00:01:29.250 --> 00:01:30.870 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:30.870 --> 00:01:35.730 align:middle line:84% This poem, or this sequence, is called "Come On, Get It." 00:01:35.730 --> 00:01:40.440 align:middle line:84% And that phrase comes from a moment 00:01:40.440 --> 00:01:45.210 align:middle line:84% about 1 minute and 53 seconds into James Brown's recording 00:01:45.210 --> 00:01:47.160 align:middle line:90% of "Get On the Good Foot." 00:01:47.160 --> 00:01:52.660 align:middle line:84% And it's a moment of this amazing suspension. 00:01:52.660 --> 00:01:55.350 align:middle line:84% And I actually wanted to see what it would be like 00:01:55.350 --> 00:01:57.780 align:middle line:84% if I could just inhabit that suspension 00:01:57.780 --> 00:02:03.540 align:middle line:84% and see what it would mean to write it and see 00:02:03.540 --> 00:02:06.390 align:middle line:90% what was going on in there. 00:02:06.390 --> 00:02:11.830 align:middle line:84% But also, over the course of the process of writing, 00:02:11.830 --> 00:02:14.370 align:middle line:84% which is still ongoing, I've also 00:02:14.370 --> 00:02:17.190 align:middle line:90% been reading certain things-- 00:02:17.190 --> 00:02:21.780 align:middle line:84% particularly, some about James Brown, other things too-- 00:02:21.780 --> 00:02:27.780 align:middle line:84% that have definitely become part of what the poem is about. 00:02:27.780 --> 00:02:30.990 align:middle line:84% Sometimes, getting a little bit annoyed, 00:02:30.990 --> 00:02:33.300 align:middle line:90% hence the grown up words. 00:02:33.300 --> 00:02:39.780 align:middle line:84% But anyway, I'll just go on now with "Come On, Get It." 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:41.110 align:middle line:90% And just one other thing. 00:02:41.110 --> 00:02:44.010 align:middle line:84% This is a part of a book that's supposed to come out 00:02:44.010 --> 00:02:46.050 align:middle line:90% next year called The Feel Trio. 00:02:46.050 --> 00:02:51.210 align:middle line:84% And it's basically three sort of longish sequences put together. 00:02:51.210 --> 00:02:54.360 align:middle line:90% But "Come On, Get It." 00:02:54.360 --> 00:02:55.980 align:middle line:90% Oh, sorry. 00:02:55.980 --> 00:02:57.570 align:middle line:84% There are parts that are numbered. 00:02:57.570 --> 00:02:59.290 align:middle line:84% But I'm not going to read the numbers. 00:02:59.290 --> 00:03:05.970 align:middle line:84% I'm going to just try to pause, and hopefully that'll work out. 00:03:05.970 --> 00:03:08.880 align:middle line:84% Performers feel each other differently, 00:03:08.880 --> 00:03:12.180 align:middle line:84% as material things that never happened, 00:03:12.180 --> 00:03:15.600 align:middle line:84% persistent substance in their risen cities, 00:03:15.600 --> 00:03:18.660 align:middle line:90% even if there's no escape. 00:03:18.660 --> 00:03:21.930 align:middle line:84% They're training in certain clinical tendencies, 00:03:21.930 --> 00:03:25.260 align:middle line:84% or in the general structure of being a problem. 00:03:25.260 --> 00:03:29.460 align:middle line:84% Because of the pivot, they never disavowed enthroneness 00:03:29.460 --> 00:03:33.900 align:middle line:84% Begins the world where we are falling, falling down together 00:03:33.900 --> 00:03:39.516 align:middle line:84% in an accident we dream, a little section between one. 00:03:39.516 --> 00:03:41.820 align:middle line:90% Not one and two. 00:03:41.820 --> 00:03:45.210 align:middle line:84% The impurity that found themselves, original, 00:03:45.210 --> 00:03:48.270 align:middle line:90% derivative, and fresh outside. 00:03:48.270 --> 00:03:50.730 align:middle line:84% At home before the fact, like a little section 00:03:50.730 --> 00:03:54.630 align:middle line:84% eight, the upstairs row efficiency with a swimming 00:03:54.630 --> 00:03:58.260 align:middle line:90% pool, a little section site. 00:03:58.260 --> 00:03:59.730 align:middle line:90% And look who's coming. 00:03:59.730 --> 00:04:02.330 align:middle line:90% It's the world's corrosion.