WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.660 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.660 --> 00:00:03.600 align:middle line:84% The woman who looks for her lost sister she said. 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:07.050 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.050 --> 00:00:12.560 align:middle line:84% I wrote this poem during a year when I kept 00:00:12.560 --> 00:00:13.925 align:middle line:90% coming very close to dying. 00:00:13.925 --> 00:00:16.940 align:middle line:90% 00:00:16.940 --> 00:00:20.960 align:middle line:84% The woman who looks for her lost sister, she said. 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:24.380 align:middle line:84% She walks all the time in the heart ward. 00:00:24.380 --> 00:00:27.080 align:middle line:90% She makes no sound. 00:00:27.080 --> 00:00:30.830 align:middle line:90% She is always alone. 00:00:30.830 --> 00:00:33.950 align:middle line:84% If she is looking in the toilet stall and you come in, 00:00:33.950 --> 00:00:35.570 align:middle line:90% she leaves. 00:00:35.570 --> 00:00:37.790 align:middle line:90% She calls you dear. 00:00:37.790 --> 00:00:40.820 align:middle line:84% I was thinking of giving her my flowers. 00:00:40.820 --> 00:00:43.770 align:middle line:84% Just now, she came over and said, 00:00:43.770 --> 00:00:46.700 align:middle line:84% you don't have to be writing all the time, dear. 00:00:46.700 --> 00:00:49.520 align:middle line:90% I said, do you have any flowers? 00:00:49.520 --> 00:00:51.320 align:middle line:90% She said, no, dear. 00:00:51.320 --> 00:00:53.660 align:middle line:90% I said, do you want any flowers? 00:00:53.660 --> 00:00:57.290 align:middle line:90% She said, no, no flowers, dear. 00:00:57.290 --> 00:01:01.100 align:middle line:84% I said, don't you want any flowers at all? 00:01:01.100 --> 00:01:02.270 align:middle line:90% No, she said. 00:01:02.270 --> 00:01:05.380 align:middle line:90% It's too late for flowers, dear. 00:01:05.380 --> 00:01:06.000 align:middle line:90%