WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.450 align:middle line:84% So now I'll read something a little more normal for me. 00:00:03.450 --> 00:00:04.830 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:04.830 --> 00:00:06.420 align:middle line:90% For me. 00:00:06.420 --> 00:00:09.240 align:middle line:84% And it's called "Percussion Grenade," 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:10.380 align:middle line:90% and it's the title poem. 00:00:10.380 --> 00:00:12.220 align:middle line:84% I actually haven't read it in a few years. 00:00:12.220 --> 00:00:17.040 align:middle line:84% So if it's rusty, it might actually be a mercy to you. 00:00:17.040 --> 00:00:18.820 align:middle line:84% I think it sort of speaks for itself. 00:00:18.820 --> 00:00:23.760 align:middle line:84% It has some noises that come into it when I get the spirit. 00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:25.320 align:middle line:90% And it begins like this. 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:26.880 align:middle line:90% "Percussion Grenade." 00:00:26.880 --> 00:00:28.980 align:middle line:90% One. 00:00:28.980 --> 00:00:34.380 align:middle line:84% Is it OK to live inside this percussion grenade? 00:00:34.380 --> 00:00:36.840 align:middle line:84% Giving the high sign to the frogmen sucking 00:00:36.840 --> 00:00:39.810 align:middle line:84% mud, the all clear to the women rolling 00:00:39.810 --> 00:00:42.960 align:middle line:84% their hair into '40s processionals 00:00:42.960 --> 00:00:49.290 align:middle line:84% In my Gondola of clouds, in my percussion grenade, 00:00:49.290 --> 00:00:52.620 align:middle line:84% I loaf, and invite myself to lock and load. 00:00:52.620 --> 00:00:55.200 align:middle line:84% Dine under the table, stir the alpha soup 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:56.580 align:middle line:90% with my epiphaneedle. 00:00:56.580 --> 00:01:00.330 align:middle line:84% The thick hours with my rifle butt. 00:01:00.330 --> 00:01:04.140 align:middle line:84% I cause a eutrophied current to glut and push close. 00:01:04.140 --> 00:01:05.580 align:middle line:90% What a worry -warm. 00:01:05.580 --> 00:01:11.991 align:middle line:84% I blot it, smile out, and sigh I atrophy 00:01:11.991 --> 00:01:14.590 align:middle line:90% in my percussion grenade. 00:01:14.590 --> 00:01:17.890 align:middle line:84% And I defy any paste sayer or roddy snop 00:01:17.890 --> 00:01:23.360 align:middle line:84% to decry the sanction of my equipage. 00:01:23.360 --> 00:01:24.830 align:middle line:90% Two. 00:01:24.830 --> 00:01:27.470 align:middle line:84% In this scene I'm tricked out like a Valkyrie banshee. 00:01:27.470 --> 00:01:30.290 align:middle line:84% My shins patched with splints, my mouth stretched to fit 00:01:30.290 --> 00:01:31.730 align:middle line:90% a pure gold baptismal font. 00:01:31.730 --> 00:01:34.400 align:middle line:84% My hair like armor, my hair like rags, 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.490 align:middle line:84% armored vehicle breast shield shriek my rhinocerine eros, 00:01:37.490 --> 00:01:38.630 align:middle line:90% the inevitability of fate. 00:01:38.630 --> 00:01:40.825 align:middle line:84% The way my hips shake, the way my death rattles. 00:01:40.825 --> 00:01:42.950 align:middle line:84% How do you tell if there's a goddess of destruction 00:01:42.950 --> 00:01:44.120 align:middle line:90% and death in your refrigerator? 00:01:44.120 --> 00:01:44.660 align:middle line:90% In your bed? 00:01:44.660 --> 00:01:45.620 align:middle line:90% In your cathode tube? 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:46.220 align:middle line:90% In your IV? 00:01:46.220 --> 00:01:47.060 align:middle line:90% In your snack box? 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:49.070 align:middle line:84% And your Yorick socks, and your parking sheen. 00:01:49.070 --> 00:01:51.708 align:middle line:84% How do you tell if it, tell if it, tell if it-- slowly now! 00:01:51.708 --> 00:01:53.000 align:middle line:90% If at all, tell if it-- slowly! 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:56.510 align:middle line:84% It, tell if all, carefully-er, all in one breath? 00:01:56.510 --> 00:01:58.820 align:middle line:90% Three. 00:01:58.820 --> 00:02:00.500 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeeeeee- shriek! 00:02:00.500 --> 00:02:01.860 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeeeeee- shriek! 00:02:01.860 --> 00:02:02.360 align:middle line:90% Opine! 00:02:02.360 --> 00:02:03.260 align:middle line:90% Opine of mine! 00:02:03.260 --> 00:02:03.830 align:middle line:90% Crescendo! 00:02:03.830 --> 00:02:04.610 align:middle line:90% Macaw! 00:02:04.610 --> 00:02:06.800 align:middle line:84% I'm a Magpie with a car alarm and an airplane 00:02:06.800 --> 00:02:07.760 align:middle line:90% and a patented genome. 00:02:07.760 --> 00:02:09.860 align:middle line:84% A reinforced cockpit door and a poptab brain, 00:02:09.860 --> 00:02:12.498 align:middle line:84% a vivisected aquifer, shunted and split 10 ways between here 00:02:12.498 --> 00:02:14.540 align:middle line:84% and the San Fernando Valley, and the Rift Valley, 00:02:14.540 --> 00:02:15.710 align:middle line:84% and the Kusk Valley, and the Rhine. 00:02:15.710 --> 00:02:17.460 align:middle line:84% Tuscaloosa, and South Bend, and St. Mark's 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:19.070 align:middle line:90% Venice, and St. Mark. 00:02:19.070 --> 00:02:22.430 align:middle line:84% Opeeeeeeeeeeeeo- galala, Opee- Orkney Islanders. 00:02:22.430 --> 00:02:24.950 align:middle line:84% Bush twins Opeeeeee Cree, Opeeeeee- entropy, 00:02:24.950 --> 00:02:26.120 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee- enmity. 00:02:26.120 --> 00:02:28.100 align:middle line:84% Opeeeeee- evisceration, Opeeeeee omenology. 00:02:28.100 --> 00:02:29.540 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee- genocide! 00:02:29.540 --> 00:02:32.390 align:middle line:84% How your guts spill out tells me how you die, how you died, 00:02:32.390 --> 00:02:34.280 align:middle line:84% how you diet in the post-death time zone, 00:02:34.280 --> 00:02:36.260 align:middle line:90% up on Mars on the Stygian plain. 00:02:36.260 --> 00:02:37.220 align:middle line:90% Skinny now. 00:02:37.220 --> 00:02:39.020 align:middle line:90% What scattering of fingerprints. 00:02:39.020 --> 00:02:41.210 align:middle line:90% What scattering of finger bones? 00:02:41.210 --> 00:02:43.490 align:middle line:84% What dice tossed into the sky became your clutch 00:02:43.490 --> 00:02:47.180 align:middle line:84% of daughters, lost to history with last week's literacy. 00:02:47.180 --> 00:02:48.950 align:middle line:90% It had a dying fall. 00:02:48.950 --> 00:02:52.430 align:middle line:84% Opeeeeee- C-3PO, tell me if you know, if everything that lives 00:02:52.430 --> 00:02:55.310 align:middle line:84% is holy, how I know more about celebrity divorce cults 00:02:55.310 --> 00:02:57.560 align:middle line:84% than what's happening in Baghdad, Washington, Compton, 00:02:57.560 --> 00:03:00.290 align:middle line:84% Philly, Montgomery, Tashkent, Quito San Salvador, St.Denis 00:03:00.290 --> 00:03:02.350 align:middle line:90% Darfur, Kabul, Kabul. 00:03:02.350 --> 00:03:03.890 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee- indeterminacy! 00:03:03.890 --> 00:03:05.150 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee- indistinction. 00:03:05.150 --> 00:03:07.400 align:middle line:84% Opeeeeee- incrimination, Opeeeeee- indignity. 00:03:07.400 --> 00:03:10.490 align:middle line:84% Blame, enmity, hatred, bile, melancholy, criminal lack 00:03:10.490 --> 00:03:12.590 align:middle line:84% of empathy, death shrink, curse of static, 00:03:12.590 --> 00:03:15.230 align:middle line:84% lime quick, eviscerating grave, clean clothes. 00:03:15.230 --> 00:03:18.080 align:middle line:84% The uterine black hole issues a bull in B flat. 00:03:18.080 --> 00:03:20.630 align:middle line:84% The color of the seasick universe is green. 00:03:20.630 --> 00:03:21.620 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee- wick wick. 00:03:21.620 --> 00:03:22.670 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee- window sash. 00:03:22.670 --> 00:03:23.810 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee- conflagration. 00:03:23.810 --> 00:03:24.800 align:middle line:90% Opeeeeee universe. 00:03:24.800 --> 00:03:27.200 align:middle line:84% Opeeeeee- lunchbox, Opeeeeee sandwich paper, bus fare, 00:03:27.200 --> 00:03:29.150 align:middle line:90% machete music. 00:03:29.150 --> 00:03:32.210 align:middle line:84% The blood unfolds like paper from the hewn lawn 00:03:32.210 --> 00:03:33.290 align:middle line:90% of the skull. 00:03:33.290 --> 00:03:36.890 align:middle line:84% Shaking the map out, reams of material. 00:03:36.890 --> 00:03:40.250 align:middle line:84% And the blood washed clothes are good for something. 00:03:40.250 --> 00:03:43.490 align:middle line:84% But the eight months gestation, and the 16 years 00:03:43.490 --> 00:03:47.570 align:middle line:84% horniness, and the 90 years senescence, and the 70 years 00:03:47.570 --> 00:03:51.460 align:middle line:84% mellowness, and the 35 years brilliance, and the 12 years 00:03:51.460 --> 00:03:56.400 align:middle line:90% sweetness, are good for nothing. 00:03:56.400 --> 00:03:59.260 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:03:59.260 --> 00:04:05.050 align:middle line:90% Oh Kay Oh Kay Okey doke. 00:04:05.050 --> 00:04:06.252 align:middle line:90% Yes, yeah, all right. 00:04:06.252 --> 00:04:07.210 align:middle line:90% Sure thing, sure thing. 00:04:07.210 --> 00:04:07.710 align:middle line:90% That's cool. 00:04:07.710 --> 00:04:08.260 align:middle line:90% That's dope. 00:04:08.260 --> 00:04:09.130 align:middle line:90% That's affirmative. 00:04:09.130 --> 00:04:10.990 align:middle line:90% 10-4. 00:04:10.990 --> 00:04:14.480 align:middle line:84% How many words for acquiescence in the English language? 00:04:14.480 --> 00:04:16.029 align:middle line:90% I consent. 00:04:16.029 --> 00:04:17.740 align:middle line:90% I agree. 00:04:17.740 --> 00:04:18.850 align:middle line:90% I'm down. 00:04:18.850 --> 00:04:20.410 align:middle line:90% I'm with you, 100%. 00:04:20.410 --> 00:04:21.220 align:middle line:90% That's peachy. 00:04:21.220 --> 00:04:21.740 align:middle line:90% Just fine. 00:04:21.740 --> 00:04:22.240 align:middle line:90% Hot dog! 00:04:22.240 --> 00:04:23.282 align:middle line:90% Yeah, uh-huh, that'll do. 00:04:23.282 --> 00:04:23.975 align:middle line:90% It works for me. 00:04:23.975 --> 00:04:24.850 align:middle line:90% I can live with that. 00:04:24.850 --> 00:04:25.310 align:middle line:90% It's a deal. 00:04:25.310 --> 00:04:25.630 align:middle line:90% Sure. 00:04:25.630 --> 00:04:26.020 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:26.020 --> 00:04:26.540 align:middle line:90% Sounds good. 00:04:26.540 --> 00:04:27.040 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:27.040 --> 00:04:27.590 align:middle line:90% Okey doke. 00:04:27.590 --> 00:04:28.090 align:middle line:90% Uh-huh. 00:04:28.090 --> 00:04:30.070 align:middle line:90% Oh, gee. 00:04:30.070 --> 00:04:31.290 align:middle line:90% Oh, geez. 00:04:31.290 --> 00:04:32.830 align:middle line:90% Oh, cream cheese. 00:04:32.830 --> 00:04:33.880 align:middle line:90% Oh, neon. 00:04:33.880 --> 00:04:34.400 align:middle line:90% Oh, moron. 00:04:34.400 --> 00:04:34.900 align:middle line:90% Oh, clout. 00:04:34.900 --> 00:04:35.503 align:middle line:90% Oh, creep. 00:04:35.503 --> 00:04:36.670 align:middle line:90% Oh, shit, oh, fuck, oh damn. 00:04:36.670 --> 00:04:38.190 align:middle line:90% Oh, oh, oh-- 00:04:38.190 --> 00:04:38.877 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:38.877 --> 00:04:39.460 align:middle line:90% Give it to me. 00:04:39.460 --> 00:04:40.690 align:middle line:90% It's a deal! 00:04:40.690 --> 00:04:41.440 align:middle line:90% I'll deal with it. 00:04:41.440 --> 00:04:42.590 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:04:42.590 --> 00:04:43.380 align:middle line:90% I'll take it. 00:04:43.380 --> 00:04:44.560 align:middle line:90% It's OK I could take it. 00:04:44.560 --> 00:04:45.710 align:middle line:90% It's cool. 00:04:45.710 --> 00:04:47.810 align:middle line:90% It's the shit. 00:04:47.810 --> 00:04:49.000 align:middle line:90% It's a suck. 00:04:49.000 --> 00:04:50.290 align:middle line:90% It's a waste. 00:04:50.290 --> 00:04:51.550 align:middle line:90% It's the grave. 00:04:51.550 --> 00:04:53.410 align:middle line:90% It's the bomb. 00:04:53.410 --> 00:04:54.730 align:middle line:90% It's gravy. 00:04:54.730 --> 00:04:55.690 align:middle line:90% It's awesome. 00:04:55.690 --> 00:04:56.710 align:middle line:90% It's great. 00:04:56.710 --> 00:04:57.670 align:middle line:90% It's OK. 00:04:57.670 --> 00:04:58.570 align:middle line:90% It's OK. 00:04:58.570 --> 00:05:00.880 align:middle line:90% I can take it, it's OK. 00:05:00.880 --> 00:05:02.440 align:middle line:90% It is? 00:05:02.440 --> 00:05:03.400 align:middle line:90% I tell you, yes, it is. 00:05:03.400 --> 00:05:05.230 align:middle line:90% It's OK. 00:05:05.230 --> 00:05:06.820 align:middle line:90% It is? 00:05:06.820 --> 00:05:07.570 align:middle line:90% I tell you it is. 00:05:07.570 --> 00:05:08.200 align:middle line:90% It's OK. 00:05:08.200 --> 00:05:08.950 align:middle line:90% Well are you sure? 00:05:08.950 --> 00:05:10.250 align:middle line:90% I tell you it's, yes. 00:05:10.250 --> 00:05:10.750 align:middle line:90% It's ah-- 00:05:10.750 --> 00:05:11.660 align:middle line:90% Well are you sure? 00:05:11.660 --> 00:05:12.368 align:middle line:90% Are you sure now? 00:05:12.368 --> 00:05:13.120 align:middle line:90% I tell you it is. 00:05:13.120 --> 00:05:14.120 align:middle line:90% I give you my word. 00:05:14.120 --> 00:05:14.620 align:middle line:90% It is. 00:05:14.620 --> 00:05:15.190 align:middle line:90% It's OK. 00:05:15.190 --> 00:05:15.730 align:middle line:90% I promise. 00:05:15.730 --> 00:05:16.230 align:middle line:90% It's-- 00:05:16.230 --> 00:05:17.200 align:middle line:90% Well, OK. 00:05:17.200 --> 00:05:18.220 align:middle line:90% It is, yes. 00:05:18.220 --> 00:05:19.390 align:middle line:90% Well, are you sure now? 00:05:19.390 --> 00:05:19.990 align:middle line:90% Yes! 00:05:19.990 --> 00:05:20.740 align:middle line:90% Are you sure now? 00:05:20.740 --> 00:05:21.250 align:middle line:90% Yes! 00:05:21.250 --> 00:05:21.910 align:middle line:90% I'm-- Yes! 00:05:21.910 --> 00:05:22.457 align:middle line:90% I'm OK! 00:05:22.457 --> 00:05:23.540 align:middle line:90% I tell you, I promise you. 00:05:23.540 --> 00:05:23.830 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:05:23.830 --> 00:05:24.470 align:middle line:90% It's OK. 00:05:24.470 --> 00:05:25.250 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:05:25.250 --> 00:05:25.750 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:05:25.750 --> 00:05:26.250 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:05:26.250 --> 00:05:27.430 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:05:27.430 --> 00:05:28.650 align:middle line:90% OK? 00:05:28.650 --> 00:05:29.810 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:05:29.810 --> 00:05:31.310 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:05:31.310 --> 00:05:33.160 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:05:33.160 --> 00:05:37.000 align:middle line:90%