WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.680 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.680 --> 00:00:04.410 align:middle line:84% Lois said she only gave 90 second introductions, 00:00:04.410 --> 00:00:07.177 align:middle line:90% and she wasn't kidding. 00:00:07.177 --> 00:00:08.760 align:middle line:84% I think that's really nice because you 00:00:08.760 --> 00:00:12.690 align:middle line:84% have to stand out there in the wings and feel terrible. 00:00:12.690 --> 00:00:13.950 align:middle line:90% Can everybody hear me? 00:00:13.950 --> 00:00:15.780 align:middle line:84% Is that reaching you in the back? 00:00:15.780 --> 00:00:17.250 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:17.250 --> 00:00:21.930 align:middle line:84% I'm going to start off by reading a riddle poem tonight. 00:00:21.930 --> 00:00:24.480 align:middle line:84% This is an audience participation poem, 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:28.110 align:middle line:84% and it won't work at all if you don't participate. 00:00:28.110 --> 00:00:32.100 align:middle line:84% You have to guess the answers to these riddles. 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:37.770 align:middle line:84% And the poem is called "Song for Seven Parts of The Body". 00:00:37.770 --> 00:00:38.970 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:38.970 --> 00:00:40.650 align:middle line:90% One. 00:00:40.650 --> 00:00:46.230 align:middle line:84% This one, a common type turns in was once attached. 00:00:46.230 --> 00:00:50.550 align:middle line:84% Fed me as sweetly as an opium pipe. 00:00:50.550 --> 00:00:55.380 align:middle line:84% Oh, birthday's on limber us, eyes sit back, 00:00:55.380 --> 00:01:00.640 align:middle line:84% ears go indoors, but here, nothing changes. 00:01:00.640 --> 00:01:02.670 align:middle line:90% This was, this is. 00:01:02.670 --> 00:01:05.390 align:middle line:90% 00:01:05.390 --> 00:01:05.960 align:middle line:90% Navel. 00:01:05.960 --> 00:01:06.770 align:middle line:90% Beautiful. 00:01:06.770 --> 00:01:07.730 align:middle line:90% What an audience. 00:01:07.730 --> 00:01:08.480 align:middle line:90% Terrific. 00:01:08.480 --> 00:01:09.260 align:middle line:90% Belly button. 00:01:09.260 --> 00:01:09.840 align:middle line:90% Navel. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:10.340 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:01:10.340 --> 00:01:12.880 align:middle line:90% 00:01:12.880 --> 00:01:14.020 align:middle line:90% This one's easy. 00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:16.150 align:middle line:90% Two. 00:01:16.150 --> 00:01:21.100 align:middle line:84% Mostly, they lie low, put up shells, sprout hairs. 00:01:21.100 --> 00:01:25.390 align:middle line:84% And if they sing, they know only leather cares. 00:01:25.390 --> 00:01:28.270 align:middle line:90% Blind marchers five abreast. 00:01:28.270 --> 00:01:33.580 align:middle line:84% Left, right, silent as mushrooms or puff paste, 00:01:33.580 --> 00:01:37.450 align:middle line:90% they rise up free at night. 00:01:37.450 --> 00:01:39.430 align:middle line:90% Toes. 00:01:39.430 --> 00:01:42.340 align:middle line:90% Very good. 00:01:42.340 --> 00:01:43.670 align:middle line:90% I think I should applause. 00:01:43.670 --> 00:01:44.860 align:middle line:90% No. 00:01:44.860 --> 00:01:46.240 align:middle line:90% Three. 00:01:46.240 --> 00:01:49.300 align:middle line:84% I have a life of my own, he says. 00:01:49.300 --> 00:01:53.650 align:middle line:84% He is transformed without benefit of bone. 00:01:53.650 --> 00:01:57.370 align:middle line:84% I will burrow, he says, and enters. 00:01:57.370 --> 00:02:02.330 align:middle line:84% Afterwards, he goes slack as a slug. 00:02:02.330 --> 00:02:06.785 align:middle line:84% He remembers little the prince is again a frog. 00:02:06.785 --> 00:02:10.070 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:10.070 --> 00:02:13.430 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:13.430 --> 00:02:14.260 align:middle line:90% 00:02:14.260 --> 00:02:14.760 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:02:14.760 --> 00:02:17.910 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:17.910 --> 00:02:21.640 align:middle line:90% 00:02:21.640 --> 00:02:24.640 align:middle line:84% Here is a field that never lies fallow. 00:02:24.640 --> 00:02:28.300 align:middle line:84% Sweat waters it, nails hoe the roots. 00:02:28.300 --> 00:02:31.690 align:middle line:84% Everyday death comes in with the window. 00:02:31.690 --> 00:02:36.100 align:middle line:84% Everyday newborns crop up like asparagus. 00:02:36.100 --> 00:02:38.440 align:middle line:84% At night, all night on the pillow, 00:02:38.440 --> 00:02:41.470 align:middle line:84% you can hear the narrow sprouts crackle 00:02:41.470 --> 00:02:46.450 align:middle line:84% rubbing against each other, lying closer than lemmings. 00:02:46.450 --> 00:02:50.170 align:middle line:84% They speak to their outposts in armpits. 00:02:50.170 --> 00:02:53.830 align:middle line:84% They speak to their settlers in crutches. 00:02:53.830 --> 00:02:56.275 align:middle line:90% Neighbor, neighbor, they murmur. 00:02:56.275 --> 00:02:59.390 align:middle line:90% 00:02:59.390 --> 00:03:00.060 align:middle line:90% Hair. 00:03:00.060 --> 00:03:02.270 align:middle line:90% Right. 00:03:02.270 --> 00:03:04.280 align:middle line:90% OK, five. 00:03:04.280 --> 00:03:06.800 align:middle line:84% They have eyes that see not, they 00:03:06.800 --> 00:03:09.410 align:middle line:90% straddle the valley of wishes. 00:03:09.410 --> 00:03:12.740 align:middle line:84% Their heels make their own rules. 00:03:12.740 --> 00:03:19.820 align:middle line:84% Among them are barbers, melons, fishes, doorknobs and spools. 00:03:19.820 --> 00:03:24.820 align:middle line:90% At times, they whisper touch me. 00:03:24.820 --> 00:03:25.510 align:middle line:90% Breasts. 00:03:25.510 --> 00:03:27.430 align:middle line:90% Right. 00:03:27.430 --> 00:03:29.440 align:middle line:90% Six. 00:03:29.440 --> 00:03:34.210 align:middle line:84% Imagine a mouth without you, pink man goodfellow. 00:03:34.210 --> 00:03:38.890 align:middle line:84% A house without a kitchen, a fish less ocean, 00:03:38.890 --> 00:03:42.400 align:middle line:90% no way to swallow. 00:03:42.400 --> 00:03:43.060 align:middle line:90% Tongue. 00:03:43.060 --> 00:03:44.110 align:middle line:90% Very good. 00:03:44.110 --> 00:03:46.486 align:middle line:90% And the last one, seven. 00:03:46.486 --> 00:03:51.010 align:middle line:84% These nubbins, these hangers on, here not. 00:03:51.010 --> 00:03:54.100 align:middle line:90% Wise men tug them in thought. 00:03:54.100 --> 00:03:57.190 align:middle line:90% Lovers may nibble each others. 00:03:57.190 --> 00:04:02.260 align:middle line:84% Maidens, gypsies, and peasants make holes in theirs 00:04:02.260 --> 00:04:05.830 align:middle line:90% to hang presence. 00:04:05.830 --> 00:04:06.700 align:middle line:90% Earlobes. 00:04:06.700 --> 00:04:09.150 align:middle line:90% Thank you all very much.