WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.370 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.370 --> 00:00:04.305 align:middle line:90% I'll read you my one dirty poem. 00:00:04.305 --> 00:00:07.580 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.580 --> 00:00:08.580 align:middle line:90% It's called "Courtship." 00:00:08.580 --> 00:00:11.540 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.540 --> 00:00:16.010 align:middle line:84% It's not really dirty, unless the truth is dirty. 00:00:16.010 --> 00:00:16.650 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:00:16.650 --> 00:00:17.900 align:middle line:90% I hate to make such remarks. 00:00:17.900 --> 00:00:20.990 align:middle line:84% It's not-- it's really irrelevant. 00:00:20.990 --> 00:00:23.150 align:middle line:84% I used to think one of the ways in which a man got 00:00:23.150 --> 00:00:25.490 align:middle line:84% a woman's confidence was by telling her 00:00:25.490 --> 00:00:28.235 align:middle line:90% he really wasn't a man. 00:00:28.235 --> 00:00:31.700 align:middle line:90% [CHUCKLING] 00:00:31.700 --> 00:00:34.680 align:middle line:90% 00:00:34.680 --> 00:00:36.600 align:middle line:84% That's why I never got married until I was 94. 00:00:36.600 --> 00:00:41.970 align:middle line:90% 00:00:41.970 --> 00:00:42.660 align:middle line:90% Forget that. 00:00:42.660 --> 00:00:44.807 align:middle line:84% This is a poem called "Courtship." 00:00:44.807 --> 00:00:49.010 align:middle line:90% 00:00:49.010 --> 00:00:55.790 align:middle line:84% There is a girl you like so you tell her your penis is big, 00:00:55.790 --> 00:01:00.020 align:middle line:84% but that you cannot get yourself to use it. 00:01:00.020 --> 00:01:02.930 align:middle line:84% Its demands are ridiculous, you say. 00:01:02.930 --> 00:01:04.970 align:middle line:90% Even self-defeating. 00:01:04.970 --> 00:01:07.700 align:middle line:84% But to be honored somehow, briefly, 00:01:07.700 --> 00:01:11.240 align:middle line:90% inconspicuously in the dark. 00:01:11.240 --> 00:01:16.790 align:middle line:84% When she closes her eyes in horror, you take it all back. 00:01:16.790 --> 00:01:19.130 align:middle line:84% You tell her you're almost a girl 00:01:19.130 --> 00:01:24.170 align:middle line:84% yourself and can understand why she is shocked. 00:01:24.170 --> 00:01:26.750 align:middle line:84% When she is about to walk away, you 00:01:26.750 --> 00:01:29.960 align:middle line:84% tell her you have no penis, that you 00:01:29.960 --> 00:01:31.790 align:middle line:90% don't know what got into you. 00:01:31.790 --> 00:01:34.940 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:34.940 --> 00:01:37.190 align:middle line:90% You get on your knees. 00:01:37.190 --> 00:01:40.070 align:middle line:84% She suddenly bends down to kiss your shoulder 00:01:40.070 --> 00:01:42.080 align:middle line:84% and you know you're on the right track. 00:01:42.080 --> 00:01:44.420 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:44.420 --> 00:01:46.400 align:middle line:84% You tell her you want to bear children 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:49.970 align:middle line:84% and that is why you seem confused. 00:01:49.970 --> 00:01:53.540 align:middle line:84% You wrinkle your brow and curse the day you were born. 00:01:53.540 --> 00:01:58.800 align:middle line:84% She tries to calm you, but you lose control. 00:01:58.800 --> 00:02:02.840 align:middle line:84% You reach for her panties and beg forgiveness as you do. 00:02:02.840 --> 00:02:05.990 align:middle line:84% She squirms and you howl like a wolf. 00:02:05.990 --> 00:02:08.630 align:middle line:90% Your craving seems monumental. 00:02:08.630 --> 00:02:10.789 align:middle line:90% You know will have her. 00:02:10.789 --> 00:02:13.895 align:middle line:84% Taken by storm, she is the girl you will marry. 00:02:13.895 --> 00:02:16.655 align:middle line:90% 00:02:16.655 --> 00:02:20.120 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.610 align:middle line:90% 00:02:22.610 --> 00:02:26.020 align:middle line:84% When you clap, you implicate yourselves.