WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.470 align:middle line:84% Well, I want to read this poem and revert to this topic. 00:00:04.470 --> 00:00:08.640 align:middle line:84% It's called "The Farm on the Great Plain." 00:00:08.640 --> 00:00:12.630 align:middle line:90% "A telephone line goes cold. 00:00:12.630 --> 00:00:15.960 align:middle line:90% Birds tread it wherever it goes. 00:00:15.960 --> 00:00:21.720 align:middle line:84% A farm back of a great plane, tugs and end of the line. 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:29.700 align:middle line:84% I call that farm every year, ringing it, listening, still. 00:00:29.700 --> 00:00:32.009 align:middle line:90% No one is home at the farm. 00:00:32.009 --> 00:00:35.160 align:middle line:90% The lion gives only a hum. 00:00:35.160 --> 00:00:37.980 align:middle line:84% Some year, I will ring the line on a night 00:00:37.980 --> 00:00:40.230 align:middle line:90% at last, the right one. 00:00:40.230 --> 00:00:42.840 align:middle line:84% And with an eye tapered for Braille, 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.620 align:middle line:84% from the phone on the wall, I will see the tenant who waits, 00:00:46.620 --> 00:00:50.790 align:middle line:90% the last one left at the place. 00:00:50.790 --> 00:00:57.330 align:middle line:84% Through the dark, my Braille eye will lovingly touch his face. 00:00:57.330 --> 00:00:58.320 align:middle line:90% Hello. 00:00:58.320 --> 00:01:01.290 align:middle line:90% Is mother at home? 00:01:01.290 --> 00:01:04.319 align:middle line:90% No one is home today. 00:01:04.319 --> 00:01:07.920 align:middle line:90% But father, he should be there. 00:01:07.920 --> 00:01:09.840 align:middle line:90% No one. 00:01:09.840 --> 00:01:11.550 align:middle line:90% No one is here. 00:01:11.550 --> 00:01:15.300 align:middle line:90% But you, are you the one? 00:01:15.300 --> 00:01:20.730 align:middle line:84% Then the lion will be gone because both ends will be home. 00:01:20.730 --> 00:01:26.130 align:middle line:90% No space, no birds, no farm. 00:01:26.130 --> 00:01:29.100 align:middle line:90% Myself will be the plane. 00:01:29.100 --> 00:01:34.140 align:middle line:84% Wise as winter is gray, pure as cold posts 00:01:34.140 --> 00:01:37.260 align:middle line:90% go, pacing toward what I know." 00:01:37.260 --> 00:01:40.410 align:middle line:90% 00:01:40.410 --> 00:01:43.470 align:middle line:84% I want to make a turn on this poem, 00:01:43.470 --> 00:01:48.660 align:middle line:84% sacrifice it by looking back saying-- 00:01:48.660 --> 00:01:53.860 align:middle line:84% some syllables are more equal than others. 00:01:53.860 --> 00:01:59.160 align:middle line:84% And there is a syllable all around through this poem. 00:01:59.160 --> 00:02:01.080 align:middle line:84% I didn't write it with this in mind. 00:02:01.080 --> 00:02:07.650 align:middle line:84% But now that I look at it, I see that secret ally, the champion 00:02:07.650 --> 00:02:21.700 align:middle line:84% syllable, the one that says, farm, hum, home, home, home, 00:02:21.700 --> 00:02:23.940 align:middle line:90% home. 00:02:23.940 --> 00:02:28.950 align:middle line:84% Millions of people meditate with a syllable. 00:02:28.950 --> 00:02:32.940 align:middle line:84% It's from in the middle and abstracted that 00:02:32.940 --> 00:02:38.700 align:middle line:90% says, home, home, farm, home. 00:02:38.700 --> 00:02:43.980 align:middle line:84% Now what if I'm going to try to dream up a nightmare or maybe 00:02:43.980 --> 00:02:45.360 align:middle line:90% a happy dream? 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:49.950 align:middle line:84% What if our words and writings are 00:02:49.950 --> 00:02:55.710 align:middle line:84% haunted by these good spirits trying to help us? 00:02:55.710 --> 00:02:59.700 align:middle line:84% And we analyze what we say and we listen to speeches 00:02:59.700 --> 00:03:01.950 align:middle line:84% and think we're responding to ideas. 00:03:01.950 --> 00:03:04.680 align:middle line:84% And all the time, we're being tugged around 00:03:04.680 --> 00:03:10.530 align:middle line:90% by these subliminal influences. 00:03:10.530 --> 00:03:12.150 align:middle line:84% Just now, when I was reading this, 00:03:12.150 --> 00:03:16.020 align:middle line:90% I suddenly saw a line that-- 00:03:16.020 --> 00:03:18.152 align:middle line:90% it's just too much. 00:03:18.152 --> 00:03:19.840 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:03:19.840 --> 00:03:22.110 align:middle line:90% Then the line will be gone. 00:03:22.110 --> 00:03:26.620 align:middle line:84% Well, it may not sound like very much when I look at it. 00:03:26.620 --> 00:03:29.040 align:middle line:84% I see all those syllables scrambling 00:03:29.040 --> 00:03:31.740 align:middle line:84% to help each other sort of secretly getting 00:03:31.740 --> 00:03:35.850 align:middle line:84% together, nearer than where rhyme would be because people 00:03:35.850 --> 00:03:38.820 align:middle line:90% are alerted to that. 00:03:38.820 --> 00:03:40.830 align:middle line:90% But these are closer. 00:03:40.830 --> 00:03:42.330 align:middle line:90% I don't mean from management. 00:03:42.330 --> 00:03:44.720 align:middle line:90% I just mean from luck.