WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.904 align:middle line:84% Usually, I agonize for a couple weeks 00:00:02.904 --> 00:00:04.840 align:middle line:84% before I have to read to people, and I just 00:00:04.840 --> 00:00:07.104 align:middle line:90% found out about 10 minutes ago. 00:00:07.104 --> 00:00:07.604 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHS] 00:00:07.604 --> 00:00:10.039 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHS] Thank you, Lisa. 00:00:10.039 --> 00:00:12.390 align:middle line:84% And I just happened to have stuff in the car, too, which 00:00:12.390 --> 00:00:15.745 align:middle line:90% is not normal, but-- 00:00:15.745 --> 00:00:18.170 align:middle line:90% so this will be kind of random. 00:00:18.170 --> 00:00:21.080 align:middle line:90% 00:00:21.080 --> 00:00:24.960 align:middle line:84% The first one I'm going to read is called "Worth." 00:00:24.960 --> 00:00:28.980 align:middle line:84% Addicted to your own flaws, selfish for wanting 00:00:28.980 --> 00:00:32.490 align:middle line:84% a clear path, a ladder to the roof. 00:00:32.490 --> 00:00:35.940 align:middle line:84% When we could fall berated for doing good. 00:00:35.940 --> 00:00:38.220 align:middle line:84% Pine scent and fudge came past us 00:00:38.220 --> 00:00:40.810 align:middle line:84% now, can't hold a candle to a place 00:00:40.810 --> 00:00:44.190 align:middle line:90% to put your kind of cobwebs. 00:00:44.190 --> 00:00:46.730 align:middle line:90% The order of change of taken. 00:00:46.730 --> 00:00:50.140 align:middle line:84% Do you just take it, the lay of the land and the police 00:00:50.140 --> 00:00:54.730 align:middle line:84% and the dents and scratches, the flawed moms and dads, the truck 00:00:54.730 --> 00:00:58.480 align:middle line:84% pipes, the upgrade to washing clothes, the deal 00:00:58.480 --> 00:01:02.290 align:middle line:84% to go to school versus keeping your kids? 00:01:02.290 --> 00:01:05.791 align:middle line:84% Do you say, I grew up in this place and these things I hold 00:01:05.791 --> 00:01:09.640 align:middle line:84% dear to be self-evident, for me to eat, 00:01:09.640 --> 00:01:13.140 align:middle line:84% pulled those tips in the winter gloom of the yard, 00:01:13.140 --> 00:01:16.530 align:middle line:84% the skating motion of the dance, or the ways you can 00:01:16.530 --> 00:01:19.650 align:middle line:84% twist and ripple, the design of stitches 00:01:19.650 --> 00:01:22.710 align:middle line:84% at the shoulders, the dogs' navigation 00:01:22.710 --> 00:01:24.840 align:middle line:90% of the candles, the meek. 00:01:24.840 --> 00:01:29.154 align:middle line:84% She goes among them through the day while receiving her worth. 00:01:29.154 --> 00:01:32.118 align:middle line:90% 00:01:32.118 --> 00:01:39.034 align:middle line:84% And the next one is called "Fill up on the Morsel," 00:01:39.034 --> 00:01:41.510 align:middle line:84% which is kind of tied with, like, there's just 00:01:41.510 --> 00:01:43.830 align:middle line:84% too much going through you all the time. 00:01:43.830 --> 00:01:47.060 align:middle line:90% 00:01:47.060 --> 00:01:50.540 align:middle line:84% We are expanding and moaning, quibbling over commas 00:01:50.540 --> 00:01:54.400 align:middle line:84% and installing permanent orders that is fenceless. 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:57.020 align:middle line:90% And such is our fieldwork. 00:01:57.020 --> 00:01:59.930 align:middle line:84% Cargoes are taking over America's waistlines, 00:01:59.930 --> 00:02:02.860 align:middle line:84% and taffeta remains underindicated. 00:02:02.860 --> 00:02:05.130 align:middle line:84% The candidates now as loose and the largest 00:02:05.130 --> 00:02:08.140 align:middle line:84% as the entryway for the maintenance of a castle. 00:02:08.140 --> 00:02:12.770 align:middle line:84% A hoisted barn door warehouse map on pulleys or rollers, 00:02:12.770 --> 00:02:16.180 align:middle line:84% volleys of hydraulic jacks, the infinite church, 00:02:16.180 --> 00:02:19.170 align:middle line:84% adolescence doubled, my laughter's daughter, 00:02:19.170 --> 00:02:22.383 align:middle line:84% my laughter's boyfriend, my laughter's daughter's 00:02:22.383 --> 00:02:24.680 align:middle line:90% boyfriend. 00:02:24.680 --> 00:02:27.530 align:middle line:84% How do you field waves of castle of corn 00:02:27.530 --> 00:02:30.890 align:middle line:84% and the pitcher's good right arm, and the gristly drawing 00:02:30.890 --> 00:02:35.070 align:middle line:84% board, bells ring, functioning with beer money. 00:02:35.070 --> 00:02:39.670 align:middle line:84% Pumping carbon monoxide into massive underground transfers, 00:02:39.670 --> 00:02:43.050 align:middle line:84% pumping errors into sunrise, pumping interrogation, 00:02:43.050 --> 00:02:44.290 align:middle line:90% chug, chug. 00:02:44.290 --> 00:02:47.380 align:middle line:84% No payments, no interest for six months. 00:02:47.380 --> 00:02:50.530 align:middle line:84% Oh, error of ancient days, don't forget 00:02:50.530 --> 00:02:52.280 align:middle line:90% you can't afford the unwanted. 00:02:52.280 --> 00:02:55.100 align:middle line:90% 00:02:55.100 --> 00:02:58.860 align:middle line:84% And I'm just going to do one more that-- 00:02:58.860 --> 00:03:01.080 align:middle line:90% this still has scribbles on it. 00:03:01.080 --> 00:03:03.222 align:middle line:84% [LAUGHS] It's the last one that I 00:03:03.222 --> 00:03:06.680 align:middle line:84% was able to print before the computer stopped printing. 00:03:06.680 --> 00:03:09.800 align:middle line:90% 00:03:09.800 --> 00:03:11.780 align:middle line:84% It's called "Not Sounding the Retreat, 00:03:11.780 --> 00:03:15.220 align:middle line:90% It's Too Crowded There Anyway." 00:03:15.220 --> 00:03:17.690 align:middle line:84% Dreaded puffs pouched out under the eyes 00:03:17.690 --> 00:03:21.500 align:middle line:84% on waking cloud meander, in a kind of line, 00:03:21.500 --> 00:03:25.080 align:middle line:84% repeating the same round, never a full feeling of love, 00:03:25.080 --> 00:03:30.000 align:middle line:84% unless the ice cream is just an easy damaged foe. 00:03:30.000 --> 00:03:34.170 align:middle line:84% The same old chaos breeding into little chaos babies. 00:03:34.170 --> 00:03:36.330 align:middle line:84% And we are serving the beautiful girl 00:03:36.330 --> 00:03:41.630 align:middle line:84% this beauty, this evening star, the rich girl we keep safe. 00:03:41.630 --> 00:03:44.330 align:middle line:84% While the subjects and verbs keep disagreeing, 00:03:44.330 --> 00:03:46.820 align:middle line:90% refusing to change the course. 00:03:46.820 --> 00:03:48.500 align:middle line:84% And that thing about the singular 00:03:48.500 --> 00:03:51.240 align:middle line:84% versus plural possessive oh yet how 00:03:51.240 --> 00:03:53.902 align:middle line:84% to filter out the cuss words before you're 00:03:53.902 --> 00:03:54.870 align:middle line:90% late for the movie. 00:03:54.870 --> 00:03:57.290 align:middle line:84% Or OPEC-- they'll just go without you, 00:03:57.290 --> 00:04:00.690 align:middle line:84% because, after all, it's their life. 00:04:00.690 --> 00:04:04.160 align:middle line:84% When the wind blew against him from Belgium to Paris, 00:04:04.160 --> 00:04:07.250 align:middle line:84% where he would die in sores, where in a pinch, 00:04:07.250 --> 00:04:10.970 align:middle line:84% the whole congregation even increased, forgot to be, 00:04:10.970 --> 00:04:13.650 align:middle line:84% right in the middle, everyone might doubt. 00:04:13.650 --> 00:04:16.100 align:middle line:84% And finally, breaking all protocol, 00:04:16.100 --> 00:04:21.500 align:middle line:84% a start on the back row called out, can we just start over? 00:04:21.500 --> 00:04:23.560 align:middle line:84% While you're looking at the crossed bridges 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:27.520 align:middle line:84% about to burst with flowers and calm beasts hearts, just 00:04:27.520 --> 00:04:31.690 align:middle line:84% then, considering whether 'tis nobler to see or not to see, 00:04:31.690 --> 00:04:35.411 align:middle line:84% it would be if the fire unpackaged holds our gift. 00:04:35.411 --> 00:04:38.720 align:middle line:84% Or what does this cannon mean for women, 00:04:38.720 --> 00:04:42.550 align:middle line:84% or when can we just admit that just who you are 00:04:42.550 --> 00:04:45.540 align:middle line:84% and where the security comes from? 00:04:45.540 --> 00:04:48.766 align:middle line:84% Just then, what else has dropped out of sight for the moment? 00:04:48.766 --> 00:04:52.510 align:middle line:84% The finality of the spent breath that still yet holds 00:04:52.510 --> 00:04:55.630 align:middle line:84% the impression of lilacs, and then also 00:04:55.630 --> 00:05:01.075 align:middle line:84% who could have been entangled for a moment by a French poet. 00:05:01.075 --> 00:05:04.540 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:05:04.540 --> 00:05:06.025 align:middle line:90% 00:05:06.025 --> 00:05:08.770 align:middle line:90% And remind us to reprint this.