WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.690 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.690 --> 00:00:01.630 align:middle line:90% I guess we're-- 00:00:01.630 --> 00:00:05.400 align:middle line:84% I'm not going to read about death all the time. 00:00:05.400 --> 00:00:09.630 align:middle line:84% But death, death is alive as life. 00:00:09.630 --> 00:00:10.530 align:middle line:90% It's with us. 00:00:10.530 --> 00:00:16.390 align:middle line:84% And I believe those spirits are around us and around us today. 00:00:16.390 --> 00:00:18.960 align:middle line:84% I want to read a poem for you guys. 00:00:18.960 --> 00:00:21.590 align:middle line:90% Do you like dogs? 00:00:21.590 --> 00:00:24.470 align:middle line:90% OK, I had a dog named Lulu. 00:00:24.470 --> 00:00:27.200 align:middle line:84% And I used to call her "Lulu Cabulu." 00:00:27.200 --> 00:00:29.660 align:middle line:84% But we lived near we lived on Fifth Street, 00:00:29.660 --> 00:00:33.450 align:middle line:84% and this is one of my neighbors on fifth street where we lived. 00:00:33.450 --> 00:00:35.270 align:middle line:84% And I used to take her down to Himmel park. 00:00:35.270 --> 00:00:37.430 align:middle line:84% Do you know where Himmel park is? 00:00:37.430 --> 00:00:39.560 align:middle line:90% Do you live near Himmel? 00:00:39.560 --> 00:00:40.310 align:middle line:90% Yay. 00:00:40.310 --> 00:00:43.850 align:middle line:84% OK, well, Lulu used to love-- and you 00:00:43.850 --> 00:00:47.340 align:middle line:90% know she used to like to smell? 00:00:47.340 --> 00:00:50.300 align:middle line:84% You know, this is partly about that. 00:00:50.300 --> 00:00:55.805 align:middle line:84% And this poem called, I'll see if I can find it here. 00:00:55.805 --> 00:01:01.800 align:middle line:90% 00:01:01.800 --> 00:01:03.050 align:middle line:90% Look in the table of contents. 00:01:03.050 --> 00:01:04.610 align:middle line:84% Anyway, she used to pull me around 00:01:04.610 --> 00:01:06.140 align:middle line:90% because she weighed 110 pounds. 00:01:06.140 --> 00:01:07.940 align:middle line:90% She was a big girl. 00:01:07.940 --> 00:01:09.710 align:middle line:90% And she was part red wolf. 00:01:09.710 --> 00:01:12.680 align:middle line:84% And red wolves are the oldest kind of wolves. 00:01:12.680 --> 00:01:14.900 align:middle line:84% They're sort of like the primitive wolves 00:01:14.900 --> 00:01:17.450 align:middle line:90% before the other wolves. 00:01:17.450 --> 00:01:20.660 align:middle line:84% And they look sort of scraggly but beautiful at the same time. 00:01:20.660 --> 00:01:21.740 align:middle line:90% You know what I mean-- 00:01:21.740 --> 00:01:23.570 align:middle line:90% sort of like a rescue dog. 00:01:23.570 --> 00:01:26.340 align:middle line:84% And she had ears that went like that. 00:01:26.340 --> 00:01:29.840 align:middle line:84% And so this is called "Song for Lulu the Red Wolf." 00:01:29.840 --> 00:01:32.420 align:middle line:84% And it actually appeared in a magazine called Bark. 00:01:32.420 --> 00:01:33.200 align:middle line:90% Isn't that cool? 00:01:33.200 --> 00:01:36.070 align:middle line:90% 00:01:36.070 --> 00:01:38.920 align:middle line:84% And Bark has this wonderful bumper sticker and that's 00:01:38.920 --> 00:01:43.050 align:middle line:90% "dog is my co-pilot." 00:01:43.050 --> 00:01:45.600 align:middle line:90% "Song of Lulu the Red Wolf." 00:01:45.600 --> 00:01:48.270 align:middle line:84% "For your eyes are frozen lemon light 00:01:48.270 --> 00:01:52.680 align:middle line:84% that slices through the calico cat's humpback spite. 00:01:52.680 --> 00:01:56.190 align:middle line:84% For the smell of grass and mica spike ripe 00:01:56.190 --> 00:02:01.500 align:middle line:84% constellations to the tufts between your golden claws. 00:02:01.500 --> 00:02:04.110 align:middle line:84% For the subterranean train freighting 00:02:04.110 --> 00:02:07.530 align:middle line:84% your throat that catapults me from computer 00:02:07.530 --> 00:02:10.680 align:middle line:90% clack back to arctic flows. 00:02:10.680 --> 00:02:14.730 align:middle line:84% For your shed fur like fraile silk islands 00:02:14.730 --> 00:02:19.710 align:middle line:84% tacking the bright oak ocean of our high country floors. 00:02:19.710 --> 00:02:24.960 align:middle line:84% For I dare not wear black velvet whose nappy fingers snap up 00:02:24.960 --> 00:02:29.250 align:middle line:84% every white hair wiped from your wise muzzle. 00:02:29.250 --> 00:02:32.340 align:middle line:84% For you leap to smack your front paws 00:02:32.340 --> 00:02:37.710 align:middle line:84% dwarfing my shoulders as we lift our snouts to midnight's 00:02:37.710 --> 00:02:39.120 align:middle line:90% blue howl. 00:02:39.120 --> 00:02:42.720 align:middle line:84% For your tail curled like a scorpion's singular 00:02:42.720 --> 00:02:47.340 align:middle line:84% alert black tip, a calligraphers nib inking 00:02:47.340 --> 00:02:49.980 align:middle line:90% the elegant nouns of your lope. 00:02:49.980 --> 00:02:53.520 align:middle line:84% For your leash tugs me along like a bloated cruise 00:02:53.520 --> 00:02:58.650 align:middle line:84% ship, just so you can sniff dog pee love notes in Himmel park." 00:02:58.650 --> 00:03:01.410 align:middle line:90% 00:03:01.410 --> 00:03:03.210 align:middle line:84% Yeah, I don't know what the attraction was. 00:03:03.210 --> 00:03:07.470 align:middle line:90% But I think she liked the note. 00:03:07.470 --> 00:03:10.020 align:middle line:84% "For when you sleep, I watch you breathe. 00:03:10.020 --> 00:03:15.255 align:middle line:84% Your ancient paws twitch to dreams so I can begin mine." 00:03:15.255 --> 00:03:18.055 align:middle line:90% 00:03:18.055 --> 00:03:19.680 align:middle line:84% Would you like to write dog poems? 00:03:19.680 --> 00:03:23.810 align:middle line:84% Go home and write a poem for your dog today or your kitty.