WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.710 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.710 --> 00:00:05.980 align:middle line:84% Well, just to get rid of the perverse poems, 00:00:05.980 --> 00:00:07.423 align:middle line:90% I'll read one more-- 00:00:07.423 --> 00:00:09.690 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:09.690 --> 00:00:11.610 align:middle line:90% --that fits in with it. 00:00:11.610 --> 00:00:13.350 align:middle line:90% It's a poem called "Tricks." 00:00:13.350 --> 00:00:16.560 align:middle line:84% And I dedicated to the poem to some friends of mine, Jon 00:00:16.560 --> 00:00:21.312 align:middle line:84% and Barbara Anderson, and Barbara asked me-- 00:00:21.312 --> 00:00:22.770 align:middle line:84% they couldn't figure out why it was 00:00:22.770 --> 00:00:25.440 align:middle line:84% dedicated to them because it's such a perverse poem. 00:00:25.440 --> 00:00:26.280 align:middle line:90% But the-- 00:00:26.280 --> 00:00:27.630 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:27.630 --> 00:00:31.980 align:middle line:84% The attitude in the poem is of a gentle humor, I think. 00:00:31.980 --> 00:00:35.940 align:middle line:84% And it was something that I felt was taught to me by those two 00:00:35.940 --> 00:00:37.980 align:middle line:90% friends. 00:00:37.980 --> 00:00:39.780 align:middle line:90% It's called "Tricks." 00:00:39.780 --> 00:00:42.090 align:middle line:84% It's about being around people who 00:00:42.090 --> 00:00:46.320 align:middle line:84% are driven by some eccentricity and can't sort of learn 00:00:46.320 --> 00:00:48.390 align:middle line:90% themselves out of it, I guess. 00:00:48.390 --> 00:00:50.610 align:middle line:90% "Tricks." 00:00:50.610 --> 00:00:54.060 align:middle line:84% "Who can sleep with so much pain around? 00:00:54.060 --> 00:00:56.340 align:middle line:90% I waved goodbye to the loveless. 00:00:56.340 --> 00:00:59.940 align:middle line:84% Asleep and waking, dreaming of me. 00:00:59.940 --> 00:01:03.900 align:middle line:84% From the insomniac sadist who prowls an empty room, 00:01:03.900 --> 00:01:06.480 align:middle line:90% I steal his whip to tease him. 00:01:06.480 --> 00:01:09.210 align:middle line:90% I pinch his fanny and leave. 00:01:09.210 --> 00:01:12.840 align:middle line:84% In the subway, I toss a kiss to the exhibitionist 00:01:12.840 --> 00:01:17.400 align:middle line:84% and close my eyes for who can change character? 00:01:17.400 --> 00:01:21.180 align:middle line:84% Who but the devious priest will bruise his knees 00:01:21.180 --> 00:01:24.870 align:middle line:84% for those whose lives are limited by pain? 00:01:24.870 --> 00:01:26.970 align:middle line:90% They will not learn. 00:01:26.970 --> 00:01:29.520 align:middle line:84% The amateur whore and the lonely clerk 00:01:29.520 --> 00:01:32.370 align:middle line:84% who refuses the joys of flirtation 00:01:32.370 --> 00:01:36.300 align:middle line:84% sit separately in the park and brood. 00:01:36.300 --> 00:01:38.670 align:middle line:90% I send anonymous love notes. 00:01:38.670 --> 00:01:43.830 align:middle line:84% I offer desire with Vaseline and roses with thorns for who else 00:01:43.830 --> 00:01:47.340 align:middle line:84% will play tricks with love in his heart? 00:01:47.340 --> 00:01:50.850 align:middle line:84% Today, I marry a widow, and tomorrow, a man. 00:01:50.850 --> 00:01:54.510 align:middle line:84% And tonight, in a tavern, I meet a reluctant poet whose 00:01:54.510 --> 00:01:56.970 align:middle line:90% penis is smaller than mine. 00:01:56.970 --> 00:02:00.720 align:middle line:84% I refuse to measure for that as his lot. 00:02:00.720 --> 00:02:04.740 align:middle line:84% In another mood, I might tell the right lie and guide 00:02:04.740 --> 00:02:07.500 align:middle line:84% their worst fears to the edge of madness 00:02:07.500 --> 00:02:12.060 align:middle line:84% and push and wait at the bottom with my net. 00:02:12.060 --> 00:02:15.570 align:middle line:84% There is something at the same time pursues and leans 00:02:15.570 --> 00:02:17.160 align:middle line:90% inside me. 00:02:17.160 --> 00:02:19.260 align:middle line:90% It is my other half. 00:02:19.260 --> 00:02:22.560 align:middle line:84% When I weep the bitter tears, it laps them up 00:02:22.560 --> 00:02:27.090 align:middle line:84% and laughs and lies down tired and refreshed. 00:02:27.090 --> 00:02:31.140 align:middle line:84% Each night, I plunge to the limits of heart's desire 00:02:31.140 --> 00:02:36.480 align:middle line:84% and stroke its belly and count the stars circling my head. 00:02:36.480 --> 00:02:39.780 align:middle line:84% On off nights, it digs a hole in my right hand 00:02:39.780 --> 00:02:42.060 align:middle line:90% and says, love thyself. 00:02:42.060 --> 00:02:43.290 align:middle line:90% Who else has the time?" 00:02:43.290 --> 00:02:47.488 align:middle line:90% 00:02:47.488 --> 00:02:48.470 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:02:48.470 --> 00:02:51.670 align:middle line:84% Let me change the mood a little bit. 00:02:51.670 --> 00:03:01.290 align:middle line:90%