WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.009 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.009 --> 00:00:03.930 align:middle line:84% All right, leave it to a man named Blake. 00:00:03.930 --> 00:00:06.450 align:middle line:84% Get the job done. the poetry job done, you know. 00:00:06.450 --> 00:00:07.350 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:07.350 --> 00:00:09.130 align:middle line:84% I'm completely thrilled to be here. 00:00:09.130 --> 00:00:11.250 align:middle line:84% I can't believe how many awesome people are here 00:00:11.250 --> 00:00:13.170 align:middle line:90% in this town in Tucson. 00:00:13.170 --> 00:00:16.410 align:middle line:84% Poetry town, Poetry capital, poetry Metropolis, poetry 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:18.630 align:middle line:90% desert. 00:00:18.630 --> 00:00:20.310 align:middle line:84% I'm just thrilled and I just want 00:00:20.310 --> 00:00:23.370 align:middle line:84% to launch into this while I'm kinda high on ginger ale. 00:00:23.370 --> 00:00:24.720 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:24.720 --> 00:00:26.970 align:middle line:84% So the first poem I'm going to read is from this book, 00:00:26.970 --> 00:00:30.150 align:middle line:84% but it's also in the awesome spork book that they made. 00:00:30.150 --> 00:00:33.418 align:middle line:84% You totally have to check that out at the punk press Spork. 00:00:33.418 --> 00:00:35.460 align:middle line:84% But it's also in my new book "Percussion Grenade" 00:00:35.460 --> 00:00:37.920 align:middle line:90% and it's called "King Prion." 00:00:37.920 --> 00:00:39.420 align:middle line:84% And it's a series poem so it's going 00:00:39.420 --> 00:00:41.100 align:middle line:90% to go on for a little while. 00:00:41.100 --> 00:00:43.530 align:middle line:84% And what it's about is so Prion diseases 00:00:43.530 --> 00:00:45.390 align:middle line:90% are like mad cow disease. 00:00:45.390 --> 00:00:48.450 align:middle line:84% There's these diseases that you get when you basically 00:00:48.450 --> 00:00:50.130 align:middle line:90% cannibalize yourself. 00:00:50.130 --> 00:00:52.845 align:middle line:84% So when a cow eats cow, it gets mad cow disease. 00:00:52.845 --> 00:00:54.720 align:middle line:84% And when we eat the hamburger, we get it too. 00:00:54.720 --> 00:00:55.220 align:middle line:90% Awesome. 00:00:55.220 --> 00:00:57.780 align:middle line:84% And mad cow disease works by sending a protein 00:00:57.780 --> 00:01:00.630 align:middle line:84% into your brain, and then the protein in your brain 00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:02.580 align:middle line:84% freaks out and doesn't work anymore either. 00:01:02.580 --> 00:01:04.620 align:middle line:84% It's like peer pressure from that protein 00:01:04.620 --> 00:01:05.610 align:middle line:90% to not work anymore. 00:01:05.610 --> 00:01:07.300 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:07.300 --> 00:01:10.680 align:middle line:84% So I became obsessed with this and interested in it. 00:01:10.680 --> 00:01:12.690 align:middle line:84% And also I thought how much of our current life 00:01:12.690 --> 00:01:14.520 align:middle line:84% works that way, like the internet, for example. 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:16.560 align:middle line:84% It just gets into your brain and make jimmys with your brain 00:01:16.560 --> 00:01:18.268 align:middle line:84% and makes it not work the way it used to. 00:01:18.268 --> 00:01:20.790 align:middle line:84% But sometimes your brain starts working in radiant new ways. 00:01:20.790 --> 00:01:23.072 align:middle line:84% And medications, definitely do that, 00:01:23.072 --> 00:01:24.780 align:middle line:84% contaminants that you don't even know how 00:01:24.780 --> 00:01:26.450 align:middle line:90% it's jimmying with your system. 00:01:26.450 --> 00:01:28.200 align:middle line:84% I got obsessed with these and how they all 00:01:28.200 --> 00:01:31.650 align:middle line:84% seem to be working together like assault but also change you. 00:01:31.650 --> 00:01:34.470 align:middle line:84% For me, the name of that being that assaults and changes you. 00:01:34.470 --> 00:01:37.053 align:middle line:84% Art might be another example of something that works that way, 00:01:37.053 --> 00:01:38.520 align:middle line:90% poetry is King Prion. 00:01:38.520 --> 00:01:40.350 align:middle line:84% So these poems are about King Prion. 00:01:40.350 --> 00:01:42.715 align:middle line:84% And every time I make this weird high pitched noise 00:01:42.715 --> 00:01:45.090 align:middle line:84% at the beginning, that's like the spirit coming in to me. 00:01:45.090 --> 00:01:47.950 align:middle line:84% That's like King Prion taking over, sort of a voodoo move, 00:01:47.950 --> 00:01:48.450 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:01:48.450 --> 00:01:49.283 align:middle line:90% So don't get scared. 00:01:49.283 --> 00:01:50.747 align:middle line:90% It'll end. 00:01:50.747 --> 00:01:53.080 align:middle line:84% I won't go on for 20 minutes in this high pitched noise. 00:01:53.080 --> 00:01:53.663 align:middle line:90% So here we go. 00:01:53.663 --> 00:01:54.960 align:middle line:90% And if I hope I don't-- 00:01:54.960 --> 00:01:56.934 align:middle line:90% I'll try not to break this also. 00:01:56.934 --> 00:01:57.434 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:57.434 --> 00:02:00.010 align:middle line:84% Also thank you so much for having me. 00:02:00.010 --> 00:02:00.900 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:02:00.900 --> 00:02:02.777 align:middle line:90% All right, so "King Prion." 00:02:02.777 --> 00:02:04.110 align:middle line:90% And I need a little of this guy. 00:02:04.110 --> 00:02:07.140 align:middle line:90% 00:02:07.140 --> 00:02:08.832 align:middle line:90% Here we go. 00:02:08.832 --> 00:02:10.610 align:middle line:90% Hoowoo! 00:02:10.610 --> 00:02:14.390 align:middle line:84% Laying an array of pixels, fat simulated proteins. 00:02:14.390 --> 00:02:17.660 align:middle line:84% Looks just like nutrition, acts just like an avatar. 00:02:17.660 --> 00:02:20.900 align:middle line:84% I just want to give my body to a net of guarine, 00:02:20.900 --> 00:02:23.840 align:middle line:84% ginkgo balboa, azatine, melamine, camphobacter 00:02:23.840 --> 00:02:26.600 align:middle line:84% phylacter nicotine, which hung like neuron-nectar in a cell 00:02:26.600 --> 00:02:28.730 align:middle line:84% net of vatic coughdropped hairball 00:02:28.730 --> 00:02:31.190 align:middle line:84% tells the future of neural center, 00:02:31.190 --> 00:02:33.740 align:middle line:84% where the straight lines hopped like a hairline fracture 00:02:33.740 --> 00:02:34.460 align:middle line:90% on a bender. 00:02:34.460 --> 00:02:36.110 align:middle line:84% Jumps a Mulholland retaining wall 00:02:36.110 --> 00:02:38.930 align:middle line:84% and crashes the crinkled Vale of food for thought. 00:02:38.930 --> 00:02:40.580 align:middle line:90% Fruit for monkeys in a barrel. 00:02:40.580 --> 00:02:44.060 align:middle line:84% One fruit per monkey for a total of 47 monkey days, 00:02:44.060 --> 00:02:46.160 align:middle line:84% for a total of 12 hours at a clip. 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:48.950 align:middle line:84% The go home and feed the baby milk of it. 00:02:48.950 --> 00:02:52.850 align:middle line:84% That man is a mouth chased by a ghosts around a rain- slicked 00:02:52.850 --> 00:02:55.190 align:middle line:90% hairpin off a cliff in. 00:02:55.190 --> 00:03:00.140 align:middle line:84% And now I paus to remember how art was a silver paper molded 00:03:00.140 --> 00:03:03.560 align:middle line:84% to the ceiling, where you cut your hair for your rebirth 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:07.640 align:middle line:84% as Fata Androgyana the scissor sister who slits where she 00:03:07.640 --> 00:03:11.240 align:middle line:90% goes into, cuts where she cuts. 00:03:11.240 --> 00:03:13.550 align:middle line:84% But this machine makes its need louder 00:03:13.550 --> 00:03:15.770 align:middle line:90% and invites me into its duct. 00:03:15.770 --> 00:03:18.500 align:middle line:84% Unlike the baby sleeping on the other edge of power, 00:03:18.500 --> 00:03:23.360 align:middle line:84% eyes rolled, mouth shrunk shut on powers, earthly sinks 00:03:23.360 --> 00:03:25.090 align:middle line:90% and shunts. 00:03:25.090 --> 00:03:26.000 align:middle line:90%