WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:14.260 align:middle line:90% 00:00:14.260 --> 00:00:17.700 align:middle line:90% "The Icon Am I Burning." 00:00:17.700 --> 00:00:19.860 align:middle line:84% "I'm doing this twice, the couple. 00:00:19.860 --> 00:00:22.860 align:middle line:84% And in the couple, there are two couples, the neg and the pos. 00:00:22.860 --> 00:00:26.340 align:middle line:84% There are two pretty babies, the ménage a trois young blonde, 00:00:26.340 --> 00:00:28.650 align:middle line:84% and the baby who is better, who gets better every day. 00:00:28.650 --> 00:00:29.790 align:middle line:90% There are two couples. 00:00:29.790 --> 00:00:31.680 align:middle line:84% One's tyrannical, and one is healthy. 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:33.480 align:middle line:90% Why always two minds? 00:00:33.480 --> 00:00:37.260 align:middle line:84% Design minds factory, or is it of a factorial cosmos? 00:00:37.260 --> 00:00:38.400 align:middle line:90% Cosmos daisy. 00:00:38.400 --> 00:00:41.040 align:middle line:84% The virgin reason hasn't appeared here for a while, 00:00:41.040 --> 00:00:42.990 align:middle line:84% and I haven't found the quartz whale. 00:00:42.990 --> 00:00:45.090 align:middle line:84% I haven't found myself since myself, 00:00:45.090 --> 00:00:48.287 align:middle line:84% since-- oh, city of all the dead and living, of the uncon, 00:00:48.287 --> 00:00:48.870 align:middle line:90% of the living. 00:00:48.870 --> 00:00:52.770 align:middle line:84% O crys cit site, in which I have believed to lose belief in. 00:00:52.770 --> 00:00:56.070 align:middle line:84% To lose belief in was the disaster of her crosshatch, 00:00:56.070 --> 00:00:58.980 align:middle line:84% when the April rains had come in the doing this twice 00:00:58.980 --> 00:01:01.710 align:middle line:84% and in the couple, the positive couple of I and you, 00:01:01.710 --> 00:01:04.080 align:middle line:84% and the negative couple who use a third to maintain 00:01:04.080 --> 00:01:05.250 align:middle line:90% power between them. 00:01:05.250 --> 00:01:08.250 align:middle line:84% There are two children, a baby and a sexual minion, 00:01:08.250 --> 00:01:11.880 align:middle line:84% who sleeps in the corridor near need the house plants 00:01:11.880 --> 00:01:14.460 align:middle line:84% and hopes to be called in for praise pris. 00:01:14.460 --> 00:01:16.290 align:middle line:84% There are so many ways to be used, 00:01:16.290 --> 00:01:18.270 align:middle line:84% is used in the first world of this city, 00:01:18.270 --> 00:01:20.700 align:middle line:84% in order to be praised, to be power, to be song; 00:01:20.700 --> 00:01:23.160 align:middle line:84% that the other be praise, be power, be song. 00:01:23.160 --> 00:01:24.180 align:middle line:90% You or is it I? 00:01:24.180 --> 00:01:25.230 align:middle line:90% I am used. 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:26.130 align:middle line:90% Some are never. 00:01:26.130 --> 00:01:27.840 align:middle line:84% And one becomes painted in order to be 00:01:27.840 --> 00:01:31.590 align:middle line:84% food with a lot of painted paint on the frayed or blurred face. 00:01:31.590 --> 00:01:32.550 align:middle line:90% I am used. 00:01:32.550 --> 00:01:33.600 align:middle line:90% I used to be user. 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:36.240 align:middle line:84% I will pose against a rectangle nude, perhaps 00:01:36.240 --> 00:01:39.270 align:middle line:84% too old to be taken to some clubs, up the staircase 00:01:39.270 --> 00:01:41.730 align:middle line:84% of the uptown landscape of West End Avenue. 00:01:41.730 --> 00:01:44.820 align:middle line:84% See and then see again the iconic face of a woman 00:01:44.820 --> 00:01:47.437 align:middle line:84% and then another icon of belief, but what was I? 00:01:47.437 --> 00:01:48.270 align:middle line:90% What was the belief? 00:01:48.270 --> 00:01:50.280 align:middle line:84% Was it simple belief, the belief itself? 00:01:50.280 --> 00:01:51.210 align:middle line:90% Or was it of it? 00:01:51.210 --> 00:01:54.330 align:middle line:84% Was of that there is it was of a Second World. 00:01:54.330 --> 00:01:57.510 align:middle line:84% I have known a long time ago, days or months. 00:01:57.510 --> 00:02:00.390 align:middle line:84% Taken up into a chariot of fire, into a flame 00:02:00.390 --> 00:02:03.630 align:middle line:84% shaped like an inverted teardrop, scarlet father. 00:02:03.630 --> 00:02:06.060 align:middle line:84% There are also two, and one member of the couple 00:02:06.060 --> 00:02:08.190 align:middle line:84% will watches while the other's taken up 00:02:08.190 --> 00:02:10.500 align:middle line:84% into the fiery tear of his death, 00:02:10.500 --> 00:02:13.050 align:middle line:84% into the uncon of all the living and all the dead. 00:02:13.050 --> 00:02:15.600 align:middle line:90% O, orange and red city of fire. 00:02:15.600 --> 00:02:18.090 align:middle line:84% Assyr's crystal can fill with all of color, 00:02:18.090 --> 00:02:20.970 align:middle line:84% the red catches there on the frayed or blurred face 00:02:20.970 --> 00:02:21.720 align:middle line:90% of the icon. 00:02:21.720 --> 00:02:24.450 align:middle line:84% Am I burning, or am I making sure the covered 00:02:24.450 --> 00:02:25.690 align:middle line:90% paintings burn? 00:02:25.690 --> 00:02:27.300 align:middle line:84% I have thrown them into the arena, 00:02:27.300 --> 00:02:30.000 align:middle line:84% and they catch fire from the nearness of my hands. 00:02:30.000 --> 00:02:32.220 align:middle line:84% At night, a man asks how I can do this, 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:34.140 align:middle line:84% but they are the wrong translations. 00:02:34.140 --> 00:02:35.670 align:middle line:84% They aren't from the Second World, 00:02:35.670 --> 00:02:37.260 align:middle line:90% and this too happens twice. 00:02:37.260 --> 00:02:39.180 align:middle line:84% They are from the world of the negative couple 00:02:39.180 --> 00:02:42.030 align:middle line:84% sleeping together and holding the blonde young to them 00:02:42.030 --> 00:02:46.020 align:middle line:84% by strong invis bonds, a sort of rope made out of telepathy. 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:48.360 align:middle line:84% There are so many of these in our city bonds, 00:02:48.360 --> 00:02:51.220 align:middle line:84% but in the Crystal City are none. 00:02:51.220 --> 00:02:52.010 align:middle line:90% I can do this. 00:02:52.010 --> 00:02:53.950 align:middle line:84% There are the wrong iconic faces of a woman, 00:02:53.950 --> 00:02:56.560 align:middle line:84% but are wrong face because she wishes what 00:02:56.560 --> 00:02:59.450 align:middle line:90% I, against a rectangle two of-- 00:02:59.450 --> 00:03:02.180 align:middle line:84% only one enters the fire, the chariot of lam flame, 00:03:02.180 --> 00:03:05.970 align:middle line:84% but many await or the one that is all of the many dozen, all 00:03:05.970 --> 00:03:06.470 align:middle line:90% the dead. 00:03:06.470 --> 00:03:09.170 align:middle line:84% O, crystal to be taken to some clup clubs, 00:03:09.170 --> 00:03:12.140 align:middle line:84% up the staircase pai pail with lavender glints. 00:03:12.140 --> 00:03:14.570 align:middle line:84% And a silver thread catches from the nearness of hands 00:03:14.570 --> 00:03:17.090 align:middle line:90% that is what senses touches. 00:03:17.090 --> 00:03:18.260 align:middle line:90% But are there wrong? 00:03:18.260 --> 00:03:20.660 align:middle line:84% Are there wron-- are the ones I have burned in the arena? 00:03:20.660 --> 00:03:21.680 align:middle line:90% They are the icons-- 00:03:21.680 --> 00:03:23.780 align:middle line:84% that is, translations-- I can't keep. 00:03:23.780 --> 00:03:25.670 align:middle line:84% They are faulty with wrong power. 00:03:25.670 --> 00:03:28.340 align:middle line:84% A man second sleeping are none made out of fire. 00:03:28.340 --> 00:03:29.570 align:middle line:90% It's the wrong fire. 00:03:29.570 --> 00:03:32.480 align:middle line:84% They are a depiction of the pornography, for example, 00:03:32.480 --> 00:03:35.660 align:middle line:84% of those who take disciple, whether in the sexual figure 00:03:35.660 --> 00:03:37.700 align:middle line:84% of the ménage or in the school of school of. 00:03:37.700 --> 00:03:41.000 align:middle line:84% I have taken the path of suffer, the made out of telepathy. 00:03:41.000 --> 00:03:44.090 align:middle line:84% For many years, assailed cruelty by all thought 00:03:44.090 --> 00:03:46.370 align:middle line:84% of past and present crowding in my head, 00:03:46.370 --> 00:03:48.770 align:middle line:84% in contradiction, contradistinction. 00:03:48.770 --> 00:03:51.410 align:middle line:84% And uproar cries against me, what part of heav-- 00:03:51.410 --> 00:03:52.580 align:middle line:90% could this be? 00:03:52.580 --> 00:03:55.520 align:middle line:84% The night is pain paint, and I'm not in school. 00:03:55.520 --> 00:03:58.220 align:middle line:84% I'm not in poem being used by all the voice. 00:03:58.220 --> 00:04:00.080 align:middle line:84% And where is heav crystal heaven? 00:04:00.080 --> 00:04:02.210 align:middle line:90% Where is Earth hell? 00:04:02.210 --> 00:04:03.710 align:middle line:90% Where is what in all? 00:04:03.710 --> 00:04:06.080 align:middle line:84% A voice said to me, o, nothing is containable, 00:04:06.080 --> 00:04:08.060 align:middle line:84% and there is no way to keep all this separable, 00:04:08.060 --> 00:04:09.720 align:middle line:90% either dead or alive. 00:04:09.720 --> 00:04:11.930 align:middle line:90% There is no high sheriff. 00:04:11.930 --> 00:04:13.790 align:middle line:84% I am always waiting and being again 00:04:13.790 --> 00:04:15.980 align:middle line:84% t' being the again of any translation 00:04:15.980 --> 00:04:18.589 align:middle line:84% was translated into heaven through a hole of music. 00:04:18.589 --> 00:04:20.570 align:middle line:84% Remember, I remember that girl who 00:04:20.570 --> 00:04:23.360 align:middle line:84% would cease to exist through a veritable black round 00:04:23.360 --> 00:04:25.580 align:middle line:84% note in the page, the round inverted 00:04:25.580 --> 00:04:29.270 align:middle line:84% red teardrop into which Elias translated the fiery chariot, 00:04:29.270 --> 00:04:30.890 align:middle line:90% his hand out. 00:04:30.890 --> 00:04:32.540 align:middle line:84% The ornate gold fire in the couple. 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:35.390 align:middle line:84% Would it ex cease to exist through a black round hole? 00:04:35.390 --> 00:04:37.100 align:middle line:84% Though the music were playing, there 00:04:37.100 --> 00:04:39.590 align:middle line:84% is no way to keep all this sep either/or, 00:04:39.590 --> 00:04:41.450 align:middle line:84% to keep all this separable in quarters, 00:04:41.450 --> 00:04:44.180 align:middle line:84% ghettos on own pages in stanzas under headings. 00:04:44.180 --> 00:04:47.550 align:middle line:84% I think paradise absorbs it into, but in a more comfort 00:04:47.550 --> 00:04:48.050 align:middle line:90% than I am. 00:04:48.050 --> 00:04:49.400 align:middle line:90% Knowing can't go away. 00:04:49.400 --> 00:04:51.950 align:middle line:84% I am burning the false translations, the false icons. 00:04:51.950 --> 00:04:52.640 align:middle line:90% I am burn. 00:04:52.640 --> 00:04:54.290 align:middle line:90% They are mine, and I can. 00:04:54.290 --> 00:04:57.050 align:middle line:84% I can burn what I wish and will burn all my wishes, which 00:04:57.050 --> 00:04:58.880 align:middle line:90% have been false icons. 00:04:58.880 --> 00:05:01.670 align:middle line:84% Nothing little I have ever has been. 00:05:01.670 --> 00:05:04.730 align:middle line:84% Nothing I have wished for has been right or just 00:05:04.730 --> 00:05:05.660 align:middle line:90% or reasonable. 00:05:05.660 --> 00:05:08.960 align:middle line:84% And when I lived without wishes, was most happy. 00:05:08.960 --> 00:05:12.860 align:middle line:84% The only icons are face that is and the fire blond hair 00:05:12.860 --> 00:05:14.510 align:middle line:90% of the ménage a trois girl. 00:05:14.510 --> 00:05:16.730 align:middle line:84% The woman in thrall must get up and leave 00:05:16.730 --> 00:05:20.300 align:middle line:84% the couple who use her for the game of their balance of power. 00:05:20.300 --> 00:05:21.140 align:middle line:90% I am burn. 00:05:21.140 --> 00:05:24.240 align:middle line:84% They are use of use her for the game of their balance. 00:05:24.240 --> 00:05:26.570 align:middle line:84% There is no balancing act in the second world. 00:05:26.570 --> 00:05:28.250 align:middle line:84% Though the remnant remain, the shred 00:05:28.250 --> 00:05:31.310 align:middle line:84% of the thought to the song they sang that only they knew 00:05:31.310 --> 00:05:34.490 align:middle line:84% would make them hate, hate each other in case they wanted to, 00:05:34.490 --> 00:05:38.870 align:middle line:84% that the other coule couple lived without wishes most hap. 00:05:38.870 --> 00:05:41.960 align:middle line:84% And the real baby knew nothing, knew nothing yet. 00:05:41.960 --> 00:05:45.200 align:middle line:84% There is a place to live from from under the skin which 00:05:45.200 --> 00:05:48.890 align:middle line:84% rends the live properly mythic that is in which I 00:05:48.890 --> 00:05:50.780 align:middle line:90% know we are in the other city. 00:05:50.780 --> 00:05:53.900 align:middle line:84% The crystal for this is a crystal river on fire 00:05:53.900 --> 00:05:58.160 align:middle line:84% that flows below the surface of the me which you see. 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:01.940 align:middle line:84% And there is click belief and I l belief 00:06:01.940 --> 00:06:05.510 align:middle line:84% in believing in the city I entered in a second yester, 00:06:05.510 --> 00:06:09.140 align:middle line:90% saying yes and not being used." 00:06:09.140 --> 00:06:09.740 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:10.340 align:middle line:90% Woo-woo! 00:06:10.340 --> 00:06:13.690 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:06:13.690 --> 00:06:21.472 align:middle line:90%