WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.500 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.500 --> 00:00:06.530 align:middle line:90% This is one from 9/28/70. 00:00:06.530 --> 00:00:09.680 align:middle line:84% It's called "The Extra Environment" Came 00:00:09.680 --> 00:00:12.904 align:middle line:84% out in the little Phoenix magazine, Inscape. 00:00:12.904 --> 00:00:15.688 align:middle line:90% 00:00:15.688 --> 00:00:18.990 align:middle line:90% You know, we carry-- 00:00:18.990 --> 00:00:20.820 align:middle line:84% it's hard to explain these poems. 00:00:20.820 --> 00:00:24.240 align:middle line:84% At this point, I don't write about anything I understand. 00:00:24.240 --> 00:00:26.280 align:middle line:84% If I understand the poem, even the beginning, 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:28.290 align:middle line:90% if the beginning makes-- 00:00:28.290 --> 00:00:31.680 align:middle line:84% seems too simple to me, I just I just throw it out. 00:00:31.680 --> 00:00:35.739 align:middle line:90% 00:00:35.739 --> 00:00:38.830 align:middle line:84% We carry different dreams, and different ideas, 00:00:38.830 --> 00:00:41.290 align:middle line:84% and sometimes I just hit at the right moment, 00:00:41.290 --> 00:00:43.490 align:middle line:90% at the right angles. 00:00:43.490 --> 00:00:48.020 align:middle line:84% "The Extra Environment," I'm referring to those things 00:00:48.020 --> 00:00:51.390 align:middle line:90% that we carry, you know. 00:00:51.390 --> 00:00:52.990 align:middle line:90% You must get out of me. 00:00:52.990 --> 00:00:55.770 align:middle line:84% There are others here who died in this canyon. 00:00:55.770 --> 00:00:58.770 align:middle line:84% I have no desire to kiss the woman you dream of, 00:00:58.770 --> 00:01:00.420 align:middle line:90% how easily you duped her. 00:01:00.420 --> 00:01:03.420 align:middle line:84% This party, people I've never known. 00:01:03.420 --> 00:01:07.140 align:middle line:84% I am not at peace continuing your life, your woman sucking 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:08.250 align:middle line:90% at my tongue. 00:01:08.250 --> 00:01:10.350 align:middle line:90% Where is this apartment? 00:01:10.350 --> 00:01:13.950 align:middle line:84% As real as the lichen, cracking lava rock for soil, 00:01:13.950 --> 00:01:17.520 align:middle line:84% the rabbit drinking dew, a buzzard waiting his agent, 00:01:17.520 --> 00:01:18.810 align:middle line:90% the jaguarundi. 00:01:18.810 --> 00:01:22.140 align:middle line:84% In the inner cycle of life and death of the canyon, 00:01:22.140 --> 00:01:24.947 align:middle line:90% there are ancient ones I seek. 00:01:24.947 --> 00:01:25.447 align:middle line:90%