WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.417 align:middle line:84% I was asked at another place why I didn't carry on writing 00:00:02.417 --> 00:00:03.720 align:middle line:90% that all my life, but I think 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:05.970 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:05.970 --> 00:00:07.710 align:middle line:90% I have better things to do. 00:00:07.710 --> 00:00:08.730 align:middle line:90% I think, I hope. 00:00:08.730 --> 00:00:11.350 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.350 --> 00:00:15.310 align:middle line:84% Now poem called "Lakeside," very similar title. 00:00:15.310 --> 00:00:17.710 align:middle line:84% Actually, I've heard both of these titles in the last day 00:00:17.710 --> 00:00:18.770 align:middle line:90% here. 00:00:18.770 --> 00:00:21.800 align:middle line:84% Lakeside and blue lake with local associations, 00:00:21.800 --> 00:00:24.970 align:middle line:84% which is an example of things which are always happening 00:00:24.970 --> 00:00:27.100 align:middle line:90% to poets provision, perhaps. 00:00:27.100 --> 00:00:28.690 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:28.690 --> 00:00:33.640 align:middle line:84% This particular poem is it takes a religious theme. 00:00:33.640 --> 00:00:39.040 align:middle line:84% And through it explores that dark religious feeling 00:00:39.040 --> 00:00:44.470 align:middle line:84% which flows into a boy on the verge of adolescence secretly. 00:00:44.470 --> 00:00:47.710 align:middle line:90% "Lakeside." 00:00:47.710 --> 00:00:52.210 align:middle line:84% "Prove that you love me!' she said, as a girl will. 00:00:52.210 --> 00:00:54.790 align:middle line:90% 'Anything!' the boy stammered. 00:00:54.790 --> 00:00:56.110 align:middle line:90% 'Anything? 00:00:56.110 --> 00:00:59.590 align:middle line:84% Then let me see you walk the waves.' 00:00:59.590 --> 00:01:04.209 align:middle line:84% He fished for inspiration in her eyes and walked. 00:01:04.209 --> 00:01:08.680 align:middle line:84% She gave him the spice of her lips half mockingly. 00:01:08.680 --> 00:01:13.150 align:middle line:84% 'Prove that you love me, change this water into wine.' 00:01:13.150 --> 00:01:16.960 align:middle line:84% She pointed to her pitcher, cracked in the heat of noon. 00:01:16.960 --> 00:01:18.700 align:middle line:90% He lifted an arm. 00:01:18.700 --> 00:01:21.130 align:middle line:84% She drank, and hugged her ankles. 00:01:21.130 --> 00:01:25.390 align:middle line:84% Gave him the wine of her tongue, and bit his own. 00:01:25.390 --> 00:01:26.860 align:middle line:90% 'Prove that you love me!' 00:01:26.860 --> 00:01:30.010 align:middle line:90% 'Anything.' 'I'm hungry now. 00:01:30.010 --> 00:01:35.140 align:middle line:84% Change this dry crust to a feast, and don't belong.' 00:01:35.140 --> 00:01:37.360 align:middle line:90% There were baskets to spare. 00:01:37.360 --> 00:01:39.910 align:middle line:84% She bared her small teeth in pleasure 00:01:39.910 --> 00:01:42.220 align:middle line:84% spared him the rose her breasts-- 00:01:42.220 --> 00:01:43.750 align:middle line:90% then away she sprang. 00:01:43.750 --> 00:01:45.820 align:middle line:90% Hid herself in a rock. 00:01:45.820 --> 00:01:47.410 align:middle line:90% Tortured, he seized her. 00:01:47.410 --> 00:01:50.440 align:middle line:84% But she wriggled like a lizard away. 00:01:50.440 --> 00:01:52.810 align:middle line:90% 'Prove that you love me!' 00:01:52.810 --> 00:01:54.670 align:middle line:90% A cripple was passing. 00:01:54.670 --> 00:01:56.830 align:middle line:90% 'Heal me him.' 00:01:56.830 --> 00:01:58.930 align:middle line:90% The cripple walked. 00:01:58.930 --> 00:02:02.650 align:middle line:84% For an instant his finger clove the hill of frankincense, 00:02:02.650 --> 00:02:05.470 align:middle line:84% but again she twisted out of his grasp, 00:02:05.470 --> 00:02:08.380 align:middle line:84% her laugh invaded by a gasp of pain. 00:02:08.380 --> 00:02:12.100 align:middle line:84% She stood on the rock, goading, belly thrust forward. 00:02:12.100 --> 00:02:13.570 align:middle line:90% 'Prove that you love me! 00:02:13.570 --> 00:02:15.790 align:middle line:90% Die for me,' she said. 00:02:15.790 --> 00:02:17.500 align:middle line:90% 'Die, and you can have this. 00:02:17.500 --> 00:02:19.030 align:middle line:90% Not unless.' 00:02:19.030 --> 00:02:22.390 align:middle line:84% She kilted her robe, pulled open the sepulcher 00:02:22.390 --> 00:02:25.780 align:middle line:84% to show the red sand-flesh waiting. 00:02:25.780 --> 00:02:28.570 align:middle line:90% Speech and color left his lips. 00:02:28.570 --> 00:02:30.640 align:middle line:90% 'So you don't love me!' 00:02:30.640 --> 00:02:36.180 align:middle line:84% She laughed, spat grossly, and fled. 00:02:36.180 --> 00:02:38.940 align:middle line:84% Wandering to the shore, he helped the fishermen 00:02:38.940 --> 00:02:42.210 align:middle line:84% with their nets, but his mind and his blood 00:02:42.210 --> 00:02:46.800 align:middle line:84% ran on the frightening fount of energy that had leapt in him. 00:02:46.800 --> 00:02:50.340 align:middle line:84% She bitched about homelong, blood splashing 00:02:50.340 --> 00:02:53.580 align:middle line:84% like menstrual wine that flowered lemon trees 00:02:53.580 --> 00:02:55.560 align:middle line:90% in her aimless wake. 00:02:55.560 --> 00:03:00.810 align:middle line:84% Forgot by dusk the strange, shy, clumsy boy, 00:03:00.810 --> 00:03:03.690 align:middle line:84% knowing too well the power in her little finger 00:03:03.690 --> 00:03:10.100 align:middle line:84% to stir such deeds, and more, when the devil was in her."