WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.600 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:05.130 align:middle line:84% The last poem I'm going to read to you tonight I think 00:00:05.130 --> 00:00:07.830 align:middle line:90% might be my best. 00:00:07.830 --> 00:00:14.140 align:middle line:84% The title is "Doors" and it's dedicated to Steve Orlen. 00:00:14.140 --> 00:00:16.300 align:middle line:90% Doors. 00:00:16.300 --> 00:00:19.930 align:middle line:84% You spend years looking for the door. 00:00:19.930 --> 00:00:25.310 align:middle line:84% And one day there she is nearer than you expected. 00:00:25.310 --> 00:00:30.580 align:middle line:84% So you want to open her up to get out whatever is inside. 00:00:30.580 --> 00:00:33.470 align:middle line:84% Not beauty, you know that already. 00:00:33.470 --> 00:00:37.405 align:middle line:84% But it's not there either because you didn't bring it. 00:00:37.405 --> 00:00:43.420 align:middle line:84% You sulk for a while, feel sorry too. 00:00:43.420 --> 00:00:48.370 align:middle line:84% Snow falls like it always does right through the seasons. 00:00:48.370 --> 00:00:50.890 align:middle line:84% Every woman who comes from the blizzard 00:00:50.890 --> 00:00:55.060 align:middle line:84% is a hot bath that only lasts some hours. 00:00:55.060 --> 00:00:58.660 align:middle line:84% Your friends ask to come in and you let them. 00:00:58.660 --> 00:01:00.520 align:middle line:90% But they leave again. 00:01:00.520 --> 00:01:02.110 align:middle line:90% They're looking too. 00:01:02.110 --> 00:01:05.680 align:middle line:84% A dress passes the window or a hat. 00:01:05.680 --> 00:01:10.960 align:middle line:84% Sexual parts in the falling snow and your friends are gone. 00:01:10.960 --> 00:01:16.990 align:middle line:84% For a time you hear their voices moths in the white wall. 00:01:16.990 --> 00:01:18.790 align:middle line:90% You think back a lot. 00:01:18.790 --> 00:01:20.620 align:middle line:90% Where did I go wrong? 00:01:20.620 --> 00:01:22.310 align:middle line:90% She was there. 00:01:22.310 --> 00:01:23.900 align:middle line:90% I was gentle. 00:01:23.900 --> 00:01:27.130 align:middle line:90% You're still doing it wrong. 00:01:27.130 --> 00:01:28.990 align:middle line:90% Your friends come back. 00:01:28.990 --> 00:01:30.730 align:middle line:90% You wish it was her. 00:01:30.730 --> 00:01:33.460 align:middle line:84% Jesus, they say, it's snowing out there. 00:01:33.460 --> 00:01:36.070 align:middle line:90% I couldn't find her, they say. 00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:37.720 align:middle line:90% You know about this. 00:01:37.720 --> 00:01:39.310 align:middle line:90% Show me searching. 00:01:39.310 --> 00:01:41.740 align:middle line:90% Show me suffering. 00:01:41.740 --> 00:01:43.240 align:middle line:90% Of course you don't. 00:01:43.240 --> 00:01:46.540 align:middle line:84% You want to show yourself, your own pale 00:01:46.540 --> 00:01:52.090 align:middle line:84% face on the pillow, hands across the sheet delicate and cool. 00:01:52.090 --> 00:01:54.400 align:middle line:90% Your friends would be there. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:55.990 align:middle line:90% He was good, they'd say. 00:01:55.990 --> 00:02:00.070 align:middle line:84% She did that to him but he was good. 00:02:00.070 --> 00:02:01.750 align:middle line:90% Three. 00:02:01.750 --> 00:02:04.270 align:middle line:90% You know too where I was. 00:02:04.270 --> 00:02:09.460 align:middle line:84% One says, when something's wrong look inside yourself. 00:02:09.460 --> 00:02:14.220 align:middle line:84% The other is frightened because he's about to find. 00:02:14.220 --> 00:02:15.270 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:02:15.270 --> 00:02:17.850 align:middle line:90% So you're learning about doors. 00:02:17.850 --> 00:02:19.650 align:middle line:90% People are not doors. 00:02:19.650 --> 00:02:21.750 align:middle line:90% It's so simple. 00:02:21.750 --> 00:02:23.340 align:middle line:90% Could a drug tell you that? 00:02:23.340 --> 00:02:24.480 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:02:24.480 --> 00:02:25.710 align:middle line:90% Could a tree? 00:02:25.710 --> 00:02:26.850 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:02:26.850 --> 00:02:28.140 align:middle line:90% A man? 00:02:28.140 --> 00:02:32.220 align:middle line:84% Only if he did not think you were a door. 00:02:32.220 --> 00:02:33.840 align:middle line:90% Five. 00:02:33.840 --> 00:02:36.390 align:middle line:84% Once you open the door in your head 00:02:36.390 --> 00:02:41.280 align:middle line:84% there is no part that is first so there is no advice. 00:02:41.280 --> 00:02:45.570 align:middle line:84% If there is no advice, your own answer is right. 00:02:45.570 --> 00:02:46.930 align:middle line:90% It is the key. 00:02:46.930 --> 00:02:49.710 align:middle line:84% The key opens the door in your head 00:02:49.710 --> 00:02:54.000 align:middle line:84% and you already know what's inside. 00:02:54.000 --> 00:02:57.300 align:middle line:84% You hope the problem then is to stop pretending 00:02:57.300 --> 00:02:59.970 align:middle line:90% but you are already open. 00:02:59.970 --> 00:03:03.820 align:middle line:84% If you grip and turn that circle long enough, 00:03:03.820 --> 00:03:06.180 align:middle line:84% you see the problem is the problem 00:03:06.180 --> 00:03:11.460 align:middle line:84% as it always was, frustrating if you make it something else. 00:03:11.460 --> 00:03:14.340 align:middle line:84% Remember the moths on the white wall. 00:03:14.340 --> 00:03:16.330 align:middle line:90% They were not the problem. 00:03:16.330 --> 00:03:18.960 align:middle line:90% They were looking for the door. 00:03:18.960 --> 00:03:20.100 align:middle line:90% Six. 00:03:20.100 --> 00:03:21.970 align:middle line:90% Make a study of doors. 00:03:21.970 --> 00:03:25.710 align:middle line:84% Some are stuck shut, handles pulled off. 00:03:25.710 --> 00:03:29.670 align:middle line:84% Some are always open where the Holy men live. 00:03:29.670 --> 00:03:33.660 align:middle line:84% Some doors are only seen moving the last 1/4 00:03:33.660 --> 00:03:36.240 align:middle line:90% inch to the Iron thump. 00:03:36.240 --> 00:03:39.600 align:middle line:90% Some are decoration, can't open. 00:03:39.600 --> 00:03:42.900 align:middle line:84% And there was her door, which you wanted to open. 00:03:42.900 --> 00:03:48.150 align:middle line:84% It was her door, which was why what was inside was wrong. 00:03:48.150 --> 00:03:52.225 align:middle line:84% The first door to open should be your own. 00:03:52.225 --> 00:03:56.610 align:middle line:84% Your door can't be forced open but it is vulnerable 00:03:56.610 --> 00:03:59.910 align:middle line:90% since you can close it again. 00:03:59.910 --> 00:04:01.620 align:middle line:90% Seven. 00:04:01.620 --> 00:04:06.000 align:middle line:84% Go back to your friends whose doors are only sleeping. 00:04:06.000 --> 00:04:07.950 align:middle line:90% Ask them to open. 00:04:07.950 --> 00:04:11.790 align:middle line:84% If it is a woman hold her, see her beauty, 00:04:11.790 --> 00:04:14.670 align:middle line:90% the strength of living bone. 00:04:14.670 --> 00:04:18.510 align:middle line:84% If a man, massage his feet by the door. 00:04:18.510 --> 00:04:19.620 align:middle line:90% It will happen. 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:22.350 align:middle line:90% You can embrace a man. 00:04:22.350 --> 00:04:25.320 align:middle line:84% You can have peace, which is to keep learning. 00:04:25.320 --> 00:04:29.640 align:middle line:84% Whatever is given from the door can't be wrong 00:04:29.640 --> 00:04:31.530 align:middle line:90% and you have learned this. 00:04:31.530 --> 00:04:35.250 align:middle line:84% If the doors are open, no man is your enemy 00:04:35.250 --> 00:04:37.500 align:middle line:90% and no woman your bed. 00:04:37.500 --> 00:04:41.310 align:middle line:84% Whatever is given from the door can't be wrong. 00:04:41.310 --> 00:04:42.180 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:04:42.180 --> 00:04:44.030 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:04:44.030 --> 00:04:56.000 align:middle line:90%