So that's the lyrics, that book.
And then I thought I would read some prose.
But I won't.
So [LAUGHTER] instead, I'm going to read
a little batch of new poems from where I've
been living in Washington, DC.
"Sunset in DC comes at 4:56.
This is nearly the same time as sunset in LA
when the El Royale sign lights up.
Sunset in Shannon comes several minutes earlier in the day.
Sunsets in Hong Kong and Havana are just about the same
but far away.
Sunset in Chile and sunset in New Zealand
are only six minutes apart on different days.
The length of today in Boston is 9 hours and 51 minutes.
The length of today in DC is 10 hours and 7 minutes.
I knew there was a difference between cities.
Don't worry.
You didn't have to tell me about the transit of the sun.
If the light is shining in the House,
Congress is still in session.
Of course, the shape of the Earth
is an oblate spheroid, wider in the middle by very few miles.
Even here on 21st Street, I can feel
the sun moving in Vancouver.
There are 12 hours of light on one day in October.
I only needed to exist to know that the sun turns
around the Earth.
We are the center of the universe."