WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.310 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.310 --> 00:00:05.020 align:middle line:90% "The Grave On the Wall." 00:00:05.020 --> 00:00:08.189 align:middle line:84% This is a poem-- a part of a much longer series of poems-- 00:00:08.189 --> 00:00:11.190 align:middle line:84% all called "The Grave On the Wall," which, when I first 00:00:11.190 --> 00:00:13.350 align:middle line:84% moved to Seattle, I was living in the apartment 00:00:13.350 --> 00:00:19.440 align:middle line:84% of my co-worker and had this really horrifying experience, 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:21.600 align:middle line:84% repeatedly, where I would wake up in the morning 00:00:21.600 --> 00:00:24.960 align:middle line:84% and I would see these enormous black forms 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:27.540 align:middle line:84% traversing the ceiling and traversing the walls. 00:00:27.540 --> 00:00:29.670 align:middle line:84% And then I would try to go into different rooms 00:00:29.670 --> 00:00:31.920 align:middle line:84% and I would continue to see these black forms 00:00:31.920 --> 00:00:34.410 align:middle line:90% all over the apartment. 00:00:34.410 --> 00:00:35.790 align:middle line:90% I told him this. 00:00:35.790 --> 00:00:38.370 align:middle line:84% He said he had never experienced anything similar, which 00:00:38.370 --> 00:00:39.750 align:middle line:90% made me feel very paranoid. 00:00:39.750 --> 00:00:44.280 align:middle line:84% And I wasn't sleeping very much, but I don't attribute it 00:00:44.280 --> 00:00:45.330 align:middle line:90% to that at all. 00:00:45.330 --> 00:00:49.200 align:middle line:90% 00:00:49.200 --> 00:00:51.990 align:middle line:90% "The Grave On the Wall." 00:00:51.990 --> 00:00:54.970 align:middle line:84% And I'm going to dedicate this to the folks at Casa Libre. 00:00:54.970 --> 00:00:59.380 align:middle line:90% 00:00:59.380 --> 00:01:03.250 align:middle line:84% A lady is masturbating on the road 00:01:03.250 --> 00:01:07.210 align:middle line:84% to the peopled river, 20 paces from where 00:01:07.210 --> 00:01:09.520 align:middle line:90% the river is put upon. 00:01:09.520 --> 00:01:13.210 align:middle line:84% Her fingers are small, the kinds of fingers 00:01:13.210 --> 00:01:16.825 align:middle line:84% that can feel what other kinds feel - nothing. 00:01:16.825 --> 00:01:20.290 align:middle line:90% 00:01:20.290 --> 00:01:24.070 align:middle line:84% To be bitten by a Bombardier, to be 00:01:24.070 --> 00:01:30.730 align:middle line:84% bitten by a gentle Bombardier clit is long term. 00:01:30.730 --> 00:01:35.350 align:middle line:84% To bite the mammal from the nest of calcium frozen to the wall, 00:01:35.350 --> 00:01:37.960 align:middle line:84% chanting the particles out of joy. 00:01:37.960 --> 00:01:41.050 align:middle line:84% She feels the joy within the wall. 00:01:41.050 --> 00:01:44.800 align:middle line:84% Bitten by modest artillery, the mammal 00:01:44.800 --> 00:01:51.440 align:middle line:84% wants to bite in response, not flinch for gross engorgement. 00:01:51.440 --> 00:01:55.460 align:middle line:84% Straw children flash extremist monographs 00:01:55.460 --> 00:02:00.290 align:middle line:84% against the wall to see how such a well-dressed threat might 00:02:00.290 --> 00:02:01.040 align:middle line:90% stick. 00:02:01.040 --> 00:02:03.185 align:middle line:90% At rest, I can feel the joy. 00:02:03.185 --> 00:02:06.190 align:middle line:90% 00:02:06.190 --> 00:02:11.170 align:middle line:84% A lady is masturbating with an eagle on her shoulder. 00:02:11.170 --> 00:02:13.540 align:middle line:90% The eagle is proud. 00:02:13.540 --> 00:02:16.990 align:middle line:84% Dapper gut sparkling the open air, 00:02:16.990 --> 00:02:23.090 align:middle line:84% bucking with the planetary hood of a cherry on deathwatch. 00:02:23.090 --> 00:02:26.660 align:middle line:84% A kestrel, a hawk, and two eagles 00:02:26.660 --> 00:02:31.310 align:middle line:84% sit on the lady's shoulders, burgers on their heads, 00:02:31.310 --> 00:02:34.970 align:middle line:84% birds of instant fever, I know I love her, 00:02:34.970 --> 00:02:38.810 align:middle line:84% whichever way love can be levered across the mattress 00:02:38.810 --> 00:02:46.100 align:middle line:84% and the sand, air, air, here comes the air, black, black. 00:02:46.100 --> 00:02:49.535 align:middle line:84% A lady with a trunk full of children tumbling open. 00:02:49.535 --> 00:02:52.870 align:middle line:90% 00:02:52.870 --> 00:02:57.490 align:middle line:84% A lady is masturbating like it is all bean cakes. 00:02:57.490 --> 00:03:00.190 align:middle line:84% She brought bean cakes into the rice 00:03:00.190 --> 00:03:06.040 align:middle line:84% paddy for the eyeless musician to get ahead, head start. 00:03:06.040 --> 00:03:09.460 align:middle line:84% She would do anything for a fellow musician, 00:03:09.460 --> 00:03:12.760 align:middle line:84% really wash the beard off, reduce the box 00:03:12.760 --> 00:03:16.790 align:middle line:84% to flattened bark, common breathing pushing back. 00:03:16.790 --> 00:03:19.210 align:middle line:90% Some people say Jesus. 00:03:19.210 --> 00:03:23.680 align:middle line:84% Yes, some sitting and pushing their intestines back in. 00:03:23.680 --> 00:03:27.300 align:middle line:90% 00:03:27.300 --> 00:03:32.460 align:middle line:84% She cannot tell a man who is female with breasts is not 00:03:32.460 --> 00:03:33.550 align:middle line:90% a woman. 00:03:33.550 --> 00:03:36.750 align:middle line:84% She and her wife will be saved, entertained 00:03:36.750 --> 00:03:39.720 align:middle line:90% in the crawling water. 00:03:39.720 --> 00:03:42.720 align:middle line:84% From a circle of hair on the knuckle of her finger falls, 00:03:42.720 --> 00:03:46.590 align:middle line:84% one, a cube of sugar, two, an iron filling 00:03:46.590 --> 00:03:49.860 align:middle line:84% in the shape of a baby, and three, a fairy. 00:03:49.860 --> 00:03:54.060 align:middle line:84% I trust you fully to carry us through the advent and chapters 00:03:54.060 --> 00:03:58.620 align:middle line:84% of a radiant harm, the widening of your mouth in epilogue, 00:03:58.620 --> 00:04:01.500 align:middle line:84% the ennobling of your tongue in index, 00:04:01.500 --> 00:04:05.970 align:middle line:84% and the treading of your eyes at the vaporizing bib and wing. 00:04:05.970 --> 00:04:09.420 align:middle line:84% The circle of hair is a single strand. 00:04:09.420 --> 00:04:12.450 align:middle line:84% Unwound, it will stiffen gold into a stock 00:04:12.450 --> 00:04:14.280 align:middle line:90% with less and less time. 00:04:14.280 --> 00:04:15.960 align:middle line:90% Sit on my hand. 00:04:15.960 --> 00:04:19.320 align:middle line:84% Feel it finalize itself in the sauce 00:04:19.320 --> 00:04:22.759 align:middle line:90% of a small, falling apple. 00:04:22.759 --> 00:04:25.000 align:middle line:90%