WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.620 align:middle line:90% 00:00:08.620 --> 00:00:10.690 align:middle line:84% I borrowed the watch specifically 00:00:10.690 --> 00:00:13.720 align:middle line:84% to tell me how long I had been up here but now I've 00:00:13.720 --> 00:00:14.800 align:middle line:90% forgotten when I started. 00:00:14.800 --> 00:00:19.053 align:middle line:90% 00:00:19.053 --> 00:00:20.470 align:middle line:84% So, you might know when I started. 00:00:20.470 --> 00:00:24.370 align:middle line:90% 00:00:24.370 --> 00:00:27.190 align:middle line:90% I've got 9:20, is that right. 00:00:27.190 --> 00:00:30.110 align:middle line:90% 00:00:30.110 --> 00:00:31.250 align:middle line:90% So, when did I start. 00:00:31.250 --> 00:00:34.220 align:middle line:90% 00:00:34.220 --> 00:00:35.440 align:middle line:90% About 8:30. 00:00:35.440 --> 00:00:36.430 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:36.430 --> 00:00:39.050 align:middle line:84% I'll read maybe three more and then I'll-- 00:00:39.050 --> 00:00:46.690 align:middle line:90% 00:00:46.690 --> 00:00:50.590 align:middle line:90% right now, OK. 00:00:50.590 --> 00:00:54.570 align:middle line:90% 00:00:54.570 --> 00:00:56.340 align:middle line:90% This is my Arizona poem. 00:00:56.340 --> 00:00:59.460 align:middle line:90% 00:00:59.460 --> 00:01:07.560 align:middle line:84% Last year I did a couple of weeks 00:01:07.560 --> 00:01:13.300 align:middle line:84% in Northern Arizona and New Mexico. 00:01:13.300 --> 00:01:20.010 align:middle line:84% And while I was up there, I really had a good time. 00:01:20.010 --> 00:01:25.410 align:middle line:84% Mostly because, I was really impressed with the girls 00:01:25.410 --> 00:01:28.090 align:middle line:90% in these Indian schools. 00:01:28.090 --> 00:01:29.535 align:middle line:90% Although they were very young. 00:01:29.535 --> 00:01:34.470 align:middle line:90% 00:01:34.470 --> 00:01:38.940 align:middle line:84% And so, there was one school in particular, 00:01:38.940 --> 00:01:43.050 align:middle line:84% a school called Fort Wingate which is out of Gallup. 00:01:43.050 --> 00:01:50.010 align:middle line:90% And I really had a good time. 00:01:50.010 --> 00:01:50.890 align:middle line:90% It's hard to explain. 00:01:50.890 --> 00:01:55.330 align:middle line:90% 00:01:55.330 --> 00:01:59.100 align:middle line:84% Because part of it was like, there was this one girl 00:01:59.100 --> 00:02:01.410 align:middle line:84% and this is a girl that the poem is written about. 00:02:01.410 --> 00:02:03.790 align:middle line:84% That I was really, very impressed with. 00:02:03.790 --> 00:02:05.920 align:middle line:90% She was very articulate. 00:02:05.920 --> 00:02:10.710 align:middle line:84% She was very dark and beautiful and she wore 00:02:10.710 --> 00:02:13.950 align:middle line:90% turquoise and silver jewelry. 00:02:13.950 --> 00:02:20.910 align:middle line:84% And I really got to thinking that I would-- 00:02:20.910 --> 00:02:24.180 align:middle line:84% she went to a BIA school and if you're 00:02:24.180 --> 00:02:28.260 align:middle line:84% familiar with BIA schools they're really terrible. 00:02:28.260 --> 00:02:32.400 align:middle line:84% And I was thinking that she should have-- 00:02:32.400 --> 00:02:34.290 align:middle line:84% that I'd like to take her out of there 00:02:34.290 --> 00:02:37.470 align:middle line:90% and send her to a good school. 00:02:37.470 --> 00:02:42.340 align:middle line:84% Buy her some nice clothes and all this kind of stuff. 00:02:42.340 --> 00:02:44.550 align:middle line:84% But then I got to examining my motives. 00:02:44.550 --> 00:02:48.370 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:48.370 --> 00:02:50.290 align:middle line:90% And they are just terrible. 00:02:50.290 --> 00:02:57.390 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:57.390 --> 00:03:02.748 align:middle line:84% So, I wrote this poem to her and it's called "Arizona Highways." 00:03:02.748 --> 00:03:08.080 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:08.080 --> 00:03:13.960 align:middle line:84% I see her 17, a lady dark, turquoise on her wrists. 00:03:13.960 --> 00:03:19.480 align:middle line:84% The land astounded by a sweeping rain, becomes her skin. 00:03:19.480 --> 00:03:23.500 align:middle line:84% Clouds begin to mend my broken eyes. 00:03:23.500 --> 00:03:26.650 align:middle line:84% I see her singing by a broken shack. 00:03:26.650 --> 00:03:30.040 align:middle line:90% I saw black, it must be done. 00:03:30.040 --> 00:03:33.580 align:middle line:84% I hum along, acts sober, tell her 00:03:33.580 --> 00:03:36.520 align:middle line:84% I could love her if she dressed better. 00:03:36.520 --> 00:03:41.620 align:middle line:84% If her father got a job and beat her more. 00:03:41.620 --> 00:03:45.190 align:middle line:84% Eulynda, there's a name I could live with. 00:03:45.190 --> 00:03:49.000 align:middle line:84% I could thrash away the nuns, tell them I 00:03:49.000 --> 00:03:55.180 align:middle line:84% adopt this girl, dark 17, silver on her fingers. 00:03:55.180 --> 00:04:02.050 align:middle line:84% In the name of the Father, Son, and may the Holy Ghost. 00:04:02.050 --> 00:04:03.160 align:middle line:90% Why not? 00:04:03.160 --> 00:04:06.040 align:middle line:90% Mormons do less with less. 00:04:06.040 --> 00:04:09.040 align:middle line:84% Didn't her ancestors live in cliffs. 00:04:09.040 --> 00:04:14.230 align:middle line:84% No plumbing, just a lot of love and corn. 00:04:14.230 --> 00:04:18.399 align:middle line:84% Me, that's corn, pollen in her hair. 00:04:18.399 --> 00:04:24.430 align:middle line:84% East, south, west, north, now I see my role, religious. 00:04:24.430 --> 00:04:27.610 align:middle line:84% The Indian politician made her laugh. 00:04:27.610 --> 00:04:30.280 align:middle line:84% Her silver jingled in her throat. 00:04:30.280 --> 00:04:34.890 align:middle line:84% Those songs, her fingers busy on his sleeve. 00:04:34.890 --> 00:04:37.300 align:middle line:90% Fathers forgive me. 00:04:37.300 --> 00:04:40.150 align:middle line:84% She knows me and her Tchindii dream. 00:04:40.150 --> 00:04:42.160 align:middle line:90% Always a little pale. 00:04:42.160 --> 00:04:44.680 align:middle line:90% Too much bourbon on my nose. 00:04:44.680 --> 00:04:46.510 align:middle line:90% My shoes too clean. 00:04:46.510 --> 00:04:49.630 align:middle line:90% Belly soft as hers. 00:04:49.630 --> 00:04:50.920 align:middle line:90% I'll move on. 00:04:50.920 --> 00:04:54.670 align:middle line:84% My schedule says Many Farms tomorrow. 00:04:54.670 --> 00:04:58.300 align:middle line:84% Then on to Window Rock and finally home. 00:04:58.300 --> 00:05:04.410 align:middle line:84% That weather nude, distant as the cloud I came in on. 00:05:04.410 --> 00:05:17.000 align:middle line:90%