WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.090 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.090 --> 00:00:05.070 align:middle line:90% I'm just going to read one poem. 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:07.572 align:middle line:84% It's from the fourth book of this five book thing 00:00:07.572 --> 00:00:08.280 align:middle line:90% that I'm writing. 00:00:08.280 --> 00:00:12.570 align:middle line:84% It's called "Meadow Slasher," and it has some adult language. 00:00:12.570 --> 00:00:14.640 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:14.640 --> 00:00:17.640 align:middle line:84% So children, I find, usually like it when I say that. 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:19.290 align:middle line:90% They're like, oh, great. 00:00:19.290 --> 00:00:22.080 align:middle line:84% But, oftentimes, adults don't like that. 00:00:22.080 --> 00:00:22.930 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:22.930 --> 00:00:24.828 align:middle line:84% So now is a great opportunity for you 00:00:24.828 --> 00:00:27.120 align:middle line:84% to pretend you need to use the restroom, or something-- 00:00:27.120 --> 00:00:28.602 align:middle line:90% [SOFT CHUCKLING] 00:00:28.602 --> 00:00:30.060 align:middle line:84% --if you don't like adult language. 00:00:30.060 --> 00:00:35.172 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.172 --> 00:00:35.880 align:middle line:90% "Meadow Slasher." 00:00:35.880 --> 00:00:41.410 align:middle line:90% 00:00:41.410 --> 00:00:43.780 align:middle line:84% "The click through the orchard ladder, 00:00:43.780 --> 00:00:49.810 align:middle line:84% songs looking for a tall window to bash it in with. 00:00:49.810 --> 00:00:52.210 align:middle line:90% How did you get in here? 00:00:52.210 --> 00:00:56.690 align:middle line:84% Tunnel drug lords of rail-track city garden. 00:00:56.690 --> 00:01:02.140 align:middle line:84% A big, fuzzy dog pissing on the flowers. 00:01:02.140 --> 00:01:05.050 align:middle line:90% How much noise did you take in? 00:01:05.050 --> 00:01:08.540 align:middle line:84% I crossed out so much, there's little left to work through. 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:11.620 align:middle line:84% At the field's edge, after the passing 00:01:11.620 --> 00:01:15.070 align:middle line:84% plowshares cut a path through it. 00:01:15.070 --> 00:01:19.270 align:middle line:84% A used band-aid peeking out from under the wastebasket 00:01:19.270 --> 00:01:20.080 align:middle line:90% in the ladies room. 00:01:20.080 --> 00:01:22.990 align:middle line:84% And the story, may as well, begin here. 00:01:22.990 --> 00:01:25.420 align:middle line:90% A Russian soldier aloft. 00:01:25.420 --> 00:01:29.740 align:middle line:84% A flock of weird birds unwiring us. 00:01:29.740 --> 00:01:33.220 align:middle line:90% So the mail comes, and nothing. 00:01:33.220 --> 00:01:36.770 align:middle line:90% No good telegrams for a decade. 00:01:36.770 --> 00:01:41.320 align:middle line:84% Black's fine, but it comes with cream anyway. 00:01:41.320 --> 00:01:46.060 align:middle line:84% Dealing in the trade of alive letters mis-sent. 00:01:46.060 --> 00:01:51.480 align:middle line:84% Even the RZA's a thug in some new prime time slot. 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:55.200 align:middle line:84% Checked yourself into rehab on Christmas Eve. 00:01:55.200 --> 00:01:58.080 align:middle line:84% Your friends, I called and wrote them all. 00:01:58.080 --> 00:01:59.490 align:middle line:90% Nothing. 00:01:59.490 --> 00:02:06.870 align:middle line:84% It's the city of hash resin, and blind kittens, your sponsor. 00:02:06.870 --> 00:02:09.597 align:middle line:90% You know that sound is? 00:02:09.597 --> 00:02:12.965 align:middle line:90% You know that scurrilous sound? 00:02:12.965 --> 00:02:15.040 align:middle line:84% You know what a specious undertaking you're 00:02:15.040 --> 00:02:17.690 align:middle line:90% involved with now? 00:02:17.690 --> 00:02:20.650 align:middle line:84% There's the Cumberland rising again. 00:02:20.650 --> 00:02:23.320 align:middle line:84% Let's get Jenks and get down there. 00:02:23.320 --> 00:02:26.350 align:middle line:84% The swallows of the evening shoot like melon seeds 00:02:26.350 --> 00:02:28.370 align:middle line:90% over the float raft. 00:02:28.370 --> 00:02:30.830 align:middle line:84% It's all right if you didn't write back, 00:02:30.830 --> 00:02:33.760 align:middle line:90% unless you still want to. 00:02:33.760 --> 00:02:36.037 align:middle line:90% You still want to? 00:02:36.037 --> 00:02:38.620 align:middle line:84% I'm on the computer just to see if anything I don't want to go 00:02:38.620 --> 00:02:40.450 align:middle line:90% to invited me out to turn down. 00:02:40.450 --> 00:02:42.250 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:42.250 --> 00:02:45.430 align:middle line:84% We're in a Kentucky Highway traffic jam with this old Tammy 00:02:45.430 --> 00:02:47.900 align:middle line:90% Wynette station on. 00:02:47.900 --> 00:02:52.440 align:middle line:84% If it's Tony Toast's America, can it be mine too? 00:02:52.440 --> 00:02:56.610 align:middle line:84% Nebraska is better in Jurado's songs anyhow. 00:02:56.610 --> 00:03:00.370 align:middle line:84% Let's stroll down the Hades and turn the box fans on. 00:03:00.370 --> 00:03:03.460 align:middle line:90% You think death jokes are funny? 00:03:03.460 --> 00:03:05.740 align:middle line:90% I, sometimes, do. 00:03:05.740 --> 00:03:08.890 align:middle line:90% Well I like your lead apron. 00:03:08.890 --> 00:03:12.220 align:middle line:84% What did you overthrow just to magnify? 00:03:12.220 --> 00:03:14.950 align:middle line:90% How far you driven today? 00:03:14.950 --> 00:03:17.750 align:middle line:90% 752 miles of Johnny Cash. 00:03:17.750 --> 00:03:23.150 align:middle line:84% 1,074 miles of Roy Orbison and Patrick Culliton It was Philip 00:03:23.150 --> 00:03:24.380 align:middle line:90% Jenks at Denny's. 00:03:24.380 --> 00:03:27.800 align:middle line:84% It was Philip Jenks at The Hideout and Rodan. 00:03:27.800 --> 00:03:30.530 align:middle line:90% Chicago's not wrong tonight. 00:03:30.530 --> 00:03:36.330 align:middle line:84% We took the Damen bus down through Bucktown, super snowy. 00:03:36.330 --> 00:03:39.330 align:middle line:84% I want the poem to squeeze your arm like the blood pressure 00:03:39.330 --> 00:03:41.280 align:middle line:90% bag. 00:03:41.280 --> 00:03:44.460 align:middle line:84% I want the dancers to catch fire a little under the auditorium 00:03:44.460 --> 00:03:46.530 align:middle line:90% lights. 00:03:46.530 --> 00:03:51.450 align:middle line:84% Holy turbines-- tiny town, known for its college-- 00:03:51.450 --> 00:03:53.670 align:middle line:90% and pulp factory birds-- 00:03:53.670 --> 00:03:57.720 align:middle line:84% spun to scraps-- hanged out with the alley slashers 00:03:57.720 --> 00:04:02.030 align:middle line:84% and Meadowlark finches at Saint Paul in Colfax. 00:04:02.030 --> 00:04:05.380 align:middle line:84% I lit the candle, I locked the door, 00:04:05.380 --> 00:04:07.330 align:middle line:84% and then put my hand flat on the first step 00:04:07.330 --> 00:04:10.030 align:middle line:90% of the stair to the way down. 00:04:10.030 --> 00:04:12.610 align:middle line:84% Thump of the ghost pulling a face, 00:04:12.610 --> 00:04:15.160 align:middle line:84% drifting through bikes and storage crates 00:04:15.160 --> 00:04:18.579 align:middle line:90% out to the night park. 00:04:18.579 --> 00:04:20.600 align:middle line:90% What's your angle? 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:21.620 align:middle line:90% None to speak of. 00:04:21.620 --> 00:04:26.870 align:middle line:84% Standing, on Christmas day, clasps at the fog condensery 00:04:26.870 --> 00:04:29.270 align:middle line:90% to the glossed street hedge. 00:04:29.270 --> 00:04:32.510 align:middle line:84% The sun loses some buildings and cuts the clouds up here 00:04:32.510 --> 00:04:35.900 align:middle line:84% like the AM alms walkers due to the tenderloin. 00:04:35.900 --> 00:04:42.630 align:middle line:84% And I'm drifted late in search of a death to wobble out from. 00:04:42.630 --> 00:04:46.580 align:middle line:84% A child of the hotel registry, who watched a man 00:04:46.580 --> 00:04:49.820 align:middle line:90% watch a man, at the urinals. 00:04:49.820 --> 00:04:54.070 align:middle line:84% A path grown over and too-low clouds on about us. 00:04:54.070 --> 00:04:57.910 align:middle line:84% The boxer's trainer's brother is in the lobby with the one 00:04:57.910 --> 00:05:00.870 align:middle line:90% he's paid to protect. 00:05:00.870 --> 00:05:04.140 align:middle line:84% Can I have a shot of his hands now? 00:05:04.140 --> 00:05:07.740 align:middle line:84% Your machete is good for a cop ride. 00:05:07.740 --> 00:05:11.250 align:middle line:84% Your pencil's a stump weapon too. 00:05:11.250 --> 00:05:13.920 align:middle line:84% When you slow to shakes, Alice puts you 00:05:13.920 --> 00:05:16.080 align:middle line:84% back down with your ready-ear to the high-five 00:05:16.080 --> 00:05:18.030 align:middle line:90% up on Fritz Cove Road. 00:05:18.030 --> 00:05:20.430 align:middle line:90% Turns dropping like rocks. 00:05:20.430 --> 00:05:23.250 align:middle line:84% Porpoises lifting out of the bay water. 00:05:23.250 --> 00:05:26.570 align:middle line:84% A little black bear calls your old number, 00:05:26.570 --> 00:05:29.340 align:middle line:90% and got your machine. 00:05:29.340 --> 00:05:32.580 align:middle line:84% That not one blade of grass you spied, 00:05:32.580 --> 00:05:35.490 align:middle line:84% mourning a summer for what it took. 00:05:35.490 --> 00:05:40.740 align:middle line:84% A tree limb hanging, almost, into your soup, budding 00:05:40.740 --> 00:05:46.320 align:middle line:84% orange-y and casting a sunlight spider's thread to your face. 00:05:46.320 --> 00:05:48.180 align:middle line:90% It's morning. 00:05:48.180 --> 00:05:51.630 align:middle line:84% Your blouse is open a bit saying, look here. 00:05:51.630 --> 00:05:52.710 align:middle line:90% Look off. 00:05:52.710 --> 00:05:55.260 align:middle line:90% Look-- look off. 00:05:55.260 --> 00:06:01.605 align:middle line:84% Meadow slashers, motel drifters out on the city's lip lisping. 00:06:01.605 --> 00:06:04.910 align:middle line:90% A ventricle-going bully. 00:06:04.910 --> 00:06:07.610 align:middle line:84% Heart to reign the limit split to Georgics. 00:06:07.610 --> 00:06:09.740 align:middle line:84% Hold, to the history of dandelion, 00:06:09.740 --> 00:06:12.220 align:middle line:90% seed down the storm drain. 00:06:12.220 --> 00:06:15.160 align:middle line:84% You may collect us all as we fold for a dollar. 00:06:15.160 --> 00:06:17.970 align:middle line:84% And drive, with Abe, toward dusk. 00:06:17.970 --> 00:06:21.770 align:middle line:84% Sidle on up up for a motel towel. 00:06:21.770 --> 00:06:25.720 align:middle line:84% Cannibals burned out in the silver trade too. 00:06:25.720 --> 00:06:27.610 align:middle line:84% We're bringing it back to cannibals. 00:06:27.610 --> 00:06:33.330 align:middle line:84% Thread, gumption, willowy shade, some more colleopterous 00:06:33.330 --> 00:06:35.180 align:middle line:90% scattering. 00:06:35.180 --> 00:06:37.295 align:middle line:90% Little landlord of the dogs. 00:06:37.295 --> 00:06:40.820 align:middle line:84% A baby curlew in the postal truck getting a ride. 00:06:40.820 --> 00:06:44.840 align:middle line:84% The child's dreaded publican and field mouse arrears. 00:06:44.840 --> 00:06:48.950 align:middle line:84% It was Mount St. Helens at Mount St. Arrhythmia. 00:06:48.950 --> 00:06:52.880 align:middle line:84% Tadpoles and bags of water tied to the bikes. 00:06:52.880 --> 00:06:56.630 align:middle line:84% A stubby diving board made from truck tires. 00:06:56.630 --> 00:07:01.100 align:middle line:84% I just want a booth seat, and black pints, 00:07:01.100 --> 00:07:04.400 align:middle line:84% until I climb up to Lethe or out to Topeka Dodge City 00:07:04.400 --> 00:07:07.160 align:middle line:90% from whence I apparently came. 00:07:07.160 --> 00:07:10.700 align:middle line:84% So where is Diogenes when you need a cold friend 00:07:10.700 --> 00:07:11.675 align:middle line:90% to laugh you to planks? 00:07:11.675 --> 00:07:14.260 align:middle line:90% 00:07:14.260 --> 00:07:17.350 align:middle line:90% The evening padlocks tick open. 00:07:17.350 --> 00:07:21.910 align:middle line:84% You hold the meadow out at a bay of clannish roads. 00:07:21.910 --> 00:07:26.755 align:middle line:84% Salt flats scrag out the planet's dumb whorl to music 00:07:26.755 --> 00:07:30.540 align:middle line:90% in an eye of gin. 00:07:30.540 --> 00:07:33.132 align:middle line:90% How was it falling the way down? 00:07:33.132 --> 00:07:36.230 align:middle line:84% How, like a bulb of cold glass, you've 00:07:36.230 --> 00:07:39.990 align:middle line:90% snapped off into the muck. 00:07:39.990 --> 00:07:43.830 align:middle line:84% You thought your soul careened crooked? 00:07:43.830 --> 00:07:46.520 align:middle line:90% You thought so? 00:07:46.520 --> 00:07:48.950 align:middle line:90% Rope ladder to a chopper. 00:07:48.950 --> 00:07:51.470 align:middle line:84% Soil fucker, dragging me and mine 00:07:51.470 --> 00:07:53.270 align:middle line:90% through a bad set of dreams. 00:07:53.270 --> 00:07:56.240 align:middle line:84% It's how come your sweated window won't wake you, 00:07:56.240 --> 00:07:59.690 align:middle line:84% lingering outside with the song's melody, 00:07:59.690 --> 00:08:03.640 align:middle line:90% chilly, "Silver City bound." 00:08:03.640 --> 00:08:06.580 align:middle line:84% Me and Blind Lemon are going to ride on down. 00:08:06.580 --> 00:08:09.910 align:middle line:84% Specious crosser, a knife in the chest. 00:08:09.910 --> 00:08:13.900 align:middle line:84% That ought to hold him a while while I search up the key. 00:08:13.900 --> 00:08:16.620 align:middle line:84% Spirit thief, your angle is thin. 00:08:16.620 --> 00:08:22.860 align:middle line:84% The jackdaws The lightning insects its path into your own. 00:08:22.860 --> 00:08:28.680 align:middle line:84% Stand down to suffer fools flung to a current amidships. 00:08:28.680 --> 00:08:31.290 align:middle line:84% The haunted blunder off in the night, watchmans 00:08:31.290 --> 00:08:32.549 align:middle line:90% lit off as shadows. 00:08:32.549 --> 00:08:36.030 align:middle line:84% It was notice given, a woodsy clearing 00:08:36.030 --> 00:08:38.250 align:middle line:90% in which to clumsy around. 00:08:38.250 --> 00:08:41.220 align:middle line:84% Yellow eyes turn to position us in the storm. 00:08:41.220 --> 00:08:45.230 align:middle line:84% Keeling forth, here, little storm, 00:08:45.230 --> 00:08:49.390 align:middle line:84% is how to get into the grass a while. 00:08:49.390 --> 00:08:51.880 align:middle line:90% Laphroaig in my red thermos. 00:08:51.880 --> 00:08:54.220 align:middle line:84% Bella asleep beneath the seat in front of me. 00:08:54.220 --> 00:08:58.960 align:middle line:84% The man on the aisle, whinging about his snack bag. 00:08:58.960 --> 00:09:02.300 align:middle line:90% You doing homework, huh? 00:09:02.300 --> 00:09:04.760 align:middle line:90% Not exactly. 00:09:04.760 --> 00:09:07.100 align:middle line:90% Exactly what, then? 00:09:07.100 --> 00:09:13.520 align:middle line:84% Well, coin-operated moons, watery field after tornadoes 00:09:13.520 --> 00:09:16.700 align:middle line:84% carried a fence, and some bivouacked boards 00:09:16.700 --> 00:09:19.430 align:middle line:84% posted up like placards to the devil mine. 00:09:19.430 --> 00:09:22.900 align:middle line:84% I'm just dying to show you my scar. 00:09:22.900 --> 00:09:28.550 align:middle line:84% How slow can you fly this plane before it skitches the woods? 00:09:28.550 --> 00:09:32.230 align:middle line:84% What is wrong with the cops in this diner? 00:09:32.230 --> 00:09:35.280 align:middle line:84% A riot of grackles, this one dud sparrow 00:09:35.280 --> 00:09:38.670 align:middle line:84% lifts up like a butterfly and lands on my back. 00:09:38.670 --> 00:09:41.550 align:middle line:84% Yellow eyes in a marsh of poppies. 00:09:41.550 --> 00:09:45.570 align:middle line:84% There's a map on the ceiling for a way through here. 00:09:45.570 --> 00:09:49.230 align:middle line:84% Oh, you think it's enough to leave an orange for the wolf 00:09:49.230 --> 00:09:51.810 align:middle line:90% and call it a long poem? 00:09:51.810 --> 00:09:53.100 align:middle line:90% That's my project, Dottie. 00:09:53.100 --> 00:09:54.150 align:middle line:90% [CHUCKLES] 00:09:54.150 --> 00:09:58.270 align:middle line:84% It's just a gift for some friends and a beast. 00:09:58.270 --> 00:10:01.850 align:middle line:84% Have you tasted the flooring in here? 00:10:01.850 --> 00:10:03.470 align:middle line:90% Can I have a second to respond? 00:10:03.470 --> 00:10:04.740 align:middle line:90% [CHUCKLES] 00:10:04.740 --> 00:10:10.100 align:middle line:84% A, sort of, black pudding, a cudgel, a twice-folded letter. 00:10:10.100 --> 00:10:14.370 align:middle line:84% I want the trapdoors to squeak like a maced troll 00:10:14.370 --> 00:10:18.340 align:middle line:84% for the windows to just drop their glass. 00:10:18.340 --> 00:10:21.400 align:middle line:84% Now didn't I meet you in Fayetteville? 00:10:21.400 --> 00:10:25.060 align:middle line:84% I keep a good Hurley bat near the bed in case of intruders. 00:10:25.060 --> 00:10:25.970 align:middle line:90% Yeah? 00:10:25.970 --> 00:10:27.910 align:middle line:90% OK, so what else? 00:10:27.910 --> 00:10:31.030 align:middle line:84% Cyclone of midges at the pitcher's face. 00:10:31.030 --> 00:10:33.726 align:middle line:90% It's still Ohio out here. 00:10:33.726 --> 00:10:36.650 align:middle line:90% So who comes in when you sleep? 00:10:36.650 --> 00:10:39.150 align:middle line:90% I want, no scary. 00:10:39.150 --> 00:10:41.780 align:middle line:84% That's the American version dubbed. 00:10:41.780 --> 00:10:46.510 align:middle line:84% Press here for bludgeon, press here for steam, and here 00:10:46.510 --> 00:10:49.310 align:middle line:90% for marauding-type shit. 00:10:49.310 --> 00:10:53.680 align:middle line:84% OK, the rains are coming, so you better get your boots out. 00:10:53.680 --> 00:10:55.180 align:middle line:84% What kind of trip wire have you been 00:10:55.180 --> 00:10:58.360 align:middle line:90% constructing in the off hours? 00:10:58.360 --> 00:11:02.460 align:middle line:84% Your courteous light's in vain, you waste. 00:11:02.460 --> 00:11:05.500 align:middle line:84% The White City drops into a sinkhole. 00:11:05.500 --> 00:11:10.030 align:middle line:84% So let's get sent down there a while, chew up our fingernails, 00:11:10.030 --> 00:11:15.400 align:middle line:84% watch the lava pour in like baked potato butter. 00:11:15.400 --> 00:11:17.020 align:middle line:84% Would you mind pulling my shirt off? 00:11:17.020 --> 00:11:21.650 align:middle line:84% I seem to have crushed my arm in the carousel. 00:11:21.650 --> 00:11:25.430 align:middle line:84% Step down, sad century, into the submarine 00:11:25.430 --> 00:11:28.910 align:middle line:84% lazing in the harbor with no battle to attend. 00:11:28.910 --> 00:11:32.030 align:middle line:84% Bring your pencilists, your story-boarders, 00:11:32.030 --> 00:11:38.840 align:middle line:84% and the child draughtsmen And the wind tips the harbor boats, 00:11:38.840 --> 00:11:41.990 align:middle line:84% casting their sails into a cover over cement quays. 00:11:41.990 --> 00:11:45.320 align:middle line:84% I, sometimes, want the line to startle a stain off or mark 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:46.280 align:middle line:90% one. 00:11:46.280 --> 00:11:48.350 align:middle line:90% Frigate to trireme. 00:11:48.350 --> 00:11:50.450 align:middle line:84% Dinghy to the lead-ruddered craft 00:11:50.450 --> 00:11:54.260 align:middle line:84% carrying the ferryman's quarter horse across a gray white bog. 00:11:54.260 --> 00:11:57.890 align:middle line:84% What's the combination for monster modelers 00:11:57.890 --> 00:12:04.710 align:middle line:84% to gang lords to subway cutters stopping for a soft drink? 00:12:04.710 --> 00:12:10.640 align:middle line:84% So animate the border's skeining, smog tide out here. 00:12:10.640 --> 00:12:13.690 align:middle line:84% Your socks are too long, but I like it. 00:12:13.690 --> 00:12:17.500 align:middle line:84% The wind is called 'Roy' in the short story, 00:12:17.500 --> 00:12:21.570 align:middle line:84% and he draggles up his own set of deranged familiars. 00:12:21.570 --> 00:12:24.180 align:middle line:90% What's that around your neck? 00:12:24.180 --> 00:12:27.040 align:middle line:90% A crystal in a bullet shell? 00:12:27.040 --> 00:12:29.410 align:middle line:84% How long you been standing there? 00:12:29.410 --> 00:12:33.140 align:middle line:84% Crepuscular, itself, is enough nodding off in the slick 70 00:12:33.140 --> 00:12:35.590 align:middle line:90% seats at the DMV. 00:12:35.590 --> 00:12:37.165 align:middle line:90% When this was in style. 00:12:37.165 --> 00:12:40.854 align:middle line:90% It was 100,000 years ago. 00:12:40.854 --> 00:12:44.160 align:middle line:84% If the windshield breaks to smithereens, 00:12:44.160 --> 00:12:46.660 align:middle line:90% you may as well shut your eyes. 00:12:46.660 --> 00:12:51.600 align:middle line:84% Well have you not learned how to breathe safety glass? 00:12:51.600 --> 00:12:54.960 align:middle line:84% The city may want you to heal, but your friends all 00:12:54.960 --> 00:12:58.340 align:middle line:84% want you to counteract their fates. 00:12:58.340 --> 00:13:00.050 align:middle line:84% Living with a 'fuck you' at the wrist, 00:13:00.050 --> 00:13:03.740 align:middle line:84% but not in the armchair of the scoffer. 00:13:03.740 --> 00:13:07.130 align:middle line:84% I'm with Marianne Moore at Ebbets Field there. 00:13:07.130 --> 00:13:11.450 align:middle line:84% My favorite beer is a sour one, a Bocker, 00:13:11.450 --> 00:13:14.090 align:middle line:90% called Cuvée Des Jacobins Rouge. 00:13:14.090 --> 00:13:17.010 align:middle line:84% And I drove home a little tipped from Brouwer's in the rain. 00:13:17.010 --> 00:13:21.950 align:middle line:84% Magnuson, Seward, Gas Works, and Carkeek to Golden Gardens, 00:13:21.950 --> 00:13:25.430 align:middle line:84% names, alive now, from whence I couldn't be bothered-- 00:13:25.430 --> 00:13:30.690 align:middle line:84% jockeying in a life from town to city and so on-- to cite them. 00:13:30.690 --> 00:13:33.030 align:middle line:84% I thought I tasted a bit of envelope glue 00:13:33.030 --> 00:13:36.310 align:middle line:90% on your bottom lip. 00:13:36.310 --> 00:13:40.550 align:middle line:84% Twilight cancels the day, debts notwithstanding. 00:13:40.550 --> 00:13:46.600 align:middle line:84% What's pleasure but a willed drifting towards excess? 00:13:46.600 --> 00:13:48.655 align:middle line:84% Throw your phone to the side ditch of the river, 00:13:48.655 --> 00:13:50.290 align:middle line:90% and the ditch is ringing. 00:13:50.290 --> 00:13:52.930 align:middle line:90% No, That's birds. 00:13:52.930 --> 00:13:58.060 align:middle line:84% Unknown, but codified, and flown to shrubs, ether. 00:13:58.060 --> 00:14:02.250 align:middle line:84% Your handbag stuck on the airplane seats arm. 00:14:02.250 --> 00:14:04.470 align:middle line:90% Your frock in the doorjamb. 00:14:04.470 --> 00:14:06.540 align:middle line:84% A coin of chewing gum sticking you 00:14:06.540 --> 00:14:09.240 align:middle line:84% to the floor at the magazine stand in the lobby. 00:14:09.240 --> 00:14:11.340 align:middle line:90% Waiting for what? 00:14:11.340 --> 00:14:13.970 align:middle line:90% Little old me? 00:14:13.970 --> 00:14:17.720 align:middle line:84% Alphabet in cursive along a viaduct on Morse 00:14:17.720 --> 00:14:20.910 align:middle line:90% What is at stake? 00:14:20.910 --> 00:14:25.650 align:middle line:84% That would be desire's rootless claim on the sensory. 00:14:25.650 --> 00:14:30.610 align:middle line:84% My fantasy life is so simple, it's pitiful." 00:14:30.610 --> 00:14:31.540 align:middle line:90% Colon. 00:14:31.540 --> 00:14:32.340 align:middle line:90% [CHUCKLING] 00:14:32.340 --> 00:14:37.290 align:middle line:84% "You turn around and ask me to unhook your bra. 00:14:37.290 --> 00:14:39.150 align:middle line:84% Then you stand at the foot of the bed, 00:14:39.150 --> 00:14:42.636 align:middle line:84% and, somehow, you undo your skirt. 00:14:42.636 --> 00:14:48.690 align:middle line:84% And your socks don't match That's the fantasy? 00:14:48.690 --> 00:14:50.790 align:middle line:90% That's the fantasy. 00:14:50.790 --> 00:14:52.440 align:middle line:84% I've been on the graveyard grocery bus 00:14:52.440 --> 00:14:54.855 align:middle line:84% alone too long too-- trying from Oberlin with GC 00:14:54.855 --> 00:14:58.700 align:middle line:84% to get you on the phone since your dad fell ill. 00:14:58.700 --> 00:15:01.590 align:middle line:84% What do you say to the newly bereaved? 00:15:01.590 --> 00:15:06.100 align:middle line:84% Well, what should we say to the dead? 00:15:06.100 --> 00:15:10.150 align:middle line:84% You out of hurt and all right where you are? 00:15:10.150 --> 00:15:15.000 align:middle line:84% Can I not know what up here you're still privy to? 00:15:15.000 --> 00:15:19.850 align:middle line:84% Deaths haze on the living like branch scrapes on branches. 00:15:19.850 --> 00:15:23.270 align:middle line:84% Dusty old sea, I'm just asking for a ride 00:15:23.270 --> 00:15:25.640 align:middle line:90% out to a nearby island. 00:15:25.640 --> 00:15:28.760 align:middle line:90% Come here, school thief. 00:15:28.760 --> 00:15:30.980 align:middle line:84% Present the articles of your dealing today 00:15:30.980 --> 00:15:33.580 align:middle line:90% that you may go free. 00:15:33.580 --> 00:15:36.100 align:middle line:84% It's nightgowns of snow, but the pageant 00:15:36.100 --> 00:15:39.970 align:middle line:84% continues its lonesome ways into the seats. 00:15:39.970 --> 00:15:42.970 align:middle line:84% Sirens found a fire late into the night. 00:15:42.970 --> 00:15:46.020 align:middle line:84% Were you awake, also, hearing them? 00:15:46.020 --> 00:15:49.890 align:middle line:84% The crux of becoming, in movement's memory, 00:15:49.890 --> 00:15:53.100 align:middle line:90% memory's blinding chatter. 00:15:53.100 --> 00:15:54.880 align:middle line:90% What were you saying about pity? 00:15:54.880 --> 00:15:57.080 align:middle line:90% I forgot. 00:15:57.080 --> 00:16:02.750 align:middle line:84% More ditch ringing More music against which to crumble like. 00:16:02.750 --> 00:16:04.470 align:middle line:90% Like what? 00:16:04.470 --> 00:16:07.350 align:middle line:90% Like categorizing your wounds? 00:16:07.350 --> 00:16:10.600 align:middle line:84% Like dive off the pier into clouds? 00:16:10.600 --> 00:16:12.160 align:middle line:90% No. 00:16:12.160 --> 00:16:15.460 align:middle line:84% Like, always swim at night with dogs in the headlamp. 00:16:15.460 --> 00:16:18.390 align:middle line:84% Like, design and construct your own coffin. 00:16:18.390 --> 00:16:20.130 align:middle line:84% Like, put a pot of tea on, and carry it 00:16:20.130 --> 00:16:23.400 align:middle line:84% up the back steps with Pierre Pain and Cleary to the roof. 00:16:23.400 --> 00:16:25.110 align:middle line:90% That's your list? 00:16:25.110 --> 00:16:26.880 align:middle line:90% That's my list. 00:16:26.880 --> 00:16:31.860 align:middle line:84% Purity is not a ruse, it's just waxed with tedium. 00:16:31.860 --> 00:16:35.850 align:middle line:84% Meaning, the story can begin with a carp flood, 00:16:35.850 --> 00:16:40.200 align:middle line:84% but it must end with a memory, some slow sloping 00:16:40.200 --> 00:16:43.892 align:middle line:84% into a white, green body of water. 00:16:43.892 --> 00:16:50.260 align:middle line:84% I dialed 1-800-LASER-FACE to the tune of-- 00:16:50.260 --> 00:16:53.350 align:middle line:84% I was a master of bloodless experiment, 00:16:53.350 --> 00:16:59.170 align:middle line:84% of cotton candy surrealism, and the so-called new brutalism 00:16:59.170 --> 00:17:02.890 align:middle line:84% of battle tide and war-long genuflecting. 00:17:02.890 --> 00:17:05.140 align:middle line:84% A master of a blanched line and rye 00:17:05.140 --> 00:17:06.970 align:middle line:90% in the great copper cistern. 00:17:06.970 --> 00:17:07.730 align:middle line:90% Liquor steam? 00:17:07.730 --> 00:17:11.829 align:middle line:84% Yes, and a cigarette to fathom the gully breach. 00:17:11.829 --> 00:17:15.069 align:middle line:84% A quarter-cask bourbon and the celluloid moons 00:17:15.069 --> 00:17:17.650 align:middle line:84% show work on Kurosawa's infinite history 00:17:17.650 --> 00:17:20.700 align:middle line:90% of the photographed warrior. 00:17:20.700 --> 00:17:23.280 align:middle line:90% Altgeld to Greenview. 00:17:23.280 --> 00:17:27.780 align:middle line:84% Hollywood to Ravenswood Avenue, where I now reside. 00:17:27.780 --> 00:17:30.470 align:middle line:84% It's not confessional, motherfucker. 00:17:30.470 --> 00:17:31.170 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:17:31.170 --> 00:17:33.600 align:middle line:90% It's a constative fact. 00:17:33.600 --> 00:17:39.050 align:middle line:84% The rain probably won't kill you, but it could. 00:17:39.050 --> 00:17:41.730 align:middle line:84% What if joy is embedded, not in reflection, 00:17:41.730 --> 00:17:44.090 align:middle line:84% but in the bright beam scooping out the highway's 00:17:44.090 --> 00:17:45.750 align:middle line:90% blear, you needn't start there. 00:17:45.750 --> 00:17:49.640 align:middle line:84% I know, already, but don't we want a little passage? 00:17:49.640 --> 00:17:51.740 align:middle line:90% Out of what exactly? 00:17:51.740 --> 00:17:56.405 align:middle line:84% A rustling in the Elms above and a passage the way out. 00:17:56.405 --> 00:18:00.690 align:middle line:84% It's funny to think that what I tried to blame my friends for 00:18:00.690 --> 00:18:06.720 align:middle line:84% would corrode me like old noise trapped in an amp tube. 00:18:06.720 --> 00:18:11.140 align:middle line:90% Well, what armors the birds. 00:18:11.140 --> 00:18:14.410 align:middle line:84% The gar's white eye glints off the face of a wristwatch. 00:18:14.410 --> 00:18:19.510 align:middle line:84% You mean, what uses the ocean like a payphone? 00:18:19.510 --> 00:18:22.120 align:middle line:90% Our Lord God? 00:18:22.120 --> 00:18:28.000 align:middle line:84% Stood upright with a daffodil, Leadbelly in the gulf meadow, 00:18:28.000 --> 00:18:32.110 align:middle line:84% trailed by children, hoot-hooting." 00:18:32.110 --> 00:18:33.010 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:18:33.010 --> 00:18:36.060 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:18:36.060 --> 00:18:42.000 align:middle line:90%