WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.200 align:middle line:84% I met a man who was a woman, who was a man, who was a woman, who 00:00:04.200 --> 00:00:07.290 align:middle line:84% was a man, who met a woman, who met her jeans, 00:00:07.290 --> 00:00:12.030 align:middle line:84% who tipped the toe, who was a man, who x the x, and xx the y. 00:00:12.030 --> 00:00:15.720 align:middle line:84% I met a friend who preferred to pi than to three, 00:00:15.720 --> 00:00:19.020 align:middle line:84% or 3.2, the infinite slide through the river 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:20.430 align:middle line:90% of identitude. 00:00:20.430 --> 00:00:23.400 align:middle line:90% A boat he did not want to sink. 00:00:23.400 --> 00:00:26.070 align:middle line:84% Who met a God, who was a tiny space, who 00:00:26.070 --> 00:00:28.410 align:middle line:84% was a shot, who was a God, who was a son, who 00:00:28.410 --> 00:00:29.790 align:middle line:90% was a girl, who was a tree. 00:00:29.790 --> 00:00:32.310 align:middle line:84% I met a God who was a sign, who was 00:00:32.310 --> 00:00:35.640 align:middle line:84% a mold who fermented a new species on the pier 00:00:35.640 --> 00:00:36.975 align:middle line:90% beneath the ropes of coral. 00:00:36.975 --> 00:00:39.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:39.750 --> 00:00:41.570 align:middle line:84% I met a man who was a fume, who was 00:00:41.570 --> 00:00:45.110 align:middle line:84% a man who was a ramp, who was a peril who was a woman, who 00:00:45.110 --> 00:00:52.100 align:middle line:84% carried the x, and x the y, the yy who xx the simple torch. 00:00:52.100 --> 00:00:56.450 align:middle line:84% I rest the man who a woman who tells the cold who prefer 00:00:56.450 --> 00:00:59.210 align:middle line:84% to win, who was a silo, a chime, who 00:00:59.210 --> 00:01:04.849 align:middle line:84% met a coroner, a fuel, an aurora, a hero of final sweep. 00:01:04.849 --> 00:01:07.220 align:middle line:90% 10 years without a name. 00:01:07.220 --> 00:01:10.580 align:middle line:90% An ordinary life. 00:01:10.580 --> 00:01:14.750 align:middle line:84% Ordinary life, I would play you a tactical dish so much 00:01:14.750 --> 00:01:17.780 align:middle line:84% alike without special knowledge or grandiosity, 00:01:17.780 --> 00:01:20.630 align:middle line:90% tumbling, tumbling. 00:01:20.630 --> 00:01:23.450 align:middle line:84% Ordinary life, you would be my cover. 00:01:23.450 --> 00:01:27.170 align:middle line:84% My couple cries, you would be my rightful knowledge, 00:01:27.170 --> 00:01:31.100 align:middle line:90% my revenge, my ordinary life. 00:01:31.100 --> 00:01:34.640 align:middle line:84% I would smile you a hungry touch of protection. 00:01:34.640 --> 00:01:36.410 align:middle line:90% I would carry closets. 00:01:36.410 --> 00:01:39.590 align:middle line:84% I would sign the favor of sleep and smolder. 00:01:39.590 --> 00:01:42.470 align:middle line:84% I would love to love, but ordinary simmer 00:01:42.470 --> 00:01:48.380 align:middle line:84% is a trade and I, so fragile, so genetic, so tiny a hunger. 00:01:48.380 --> 00:01:50.540 align:middle line:90% Notes they would not like. 00:01:50.540 --> 00:01:55.100 align:middle line:84% So slow, the fragile could not hear. 00:01:55.100 --> 00:01:56.270 align:middle line:90% A capricious hurt. 00:01:56.270 --> 00:01:57.440 align:middle line:90% A future split. 00:01:57.440 --> 00:02:03.830 align:middle line:84% I stopped the freeze so low, who extreme a funeral obsession 00:02:03.830 --> 00:02:06.830 align:middle line:90% I became all collaboration. 00:02:06.830 --> 00:02:08.330 align:middle line:90% Come quietly. 00:02:08.330 --> 00:02:11.510 align:middle line:90% I took your boy. 00:02:11.510 --> 00:02:13.820 align:middle line:84% And I just wanted to dedicate those last two 00:02:13.820 --> 00:02:18.620 align:middle line:90% poems to Chelsea Manning. 00:02:18.620 --> 00:02:23.780 align:middle line:84% And you know that Bradley Manning, who is now 00:02:23.780 --> 00:02:28.010 align:middle line:84% Chelsea Manning, was sentenced and sent a letter to the Today 00:02:28.010 --> 00:02:33.380 align:middle line:90% Show and came out as trans. 00:02:33.380 --> 00:02:35.510 align:middle line:84% She's been talking about that for a long time, 00:02:35.510 --> 00:02:39.410 align:middle line:84% but from now on wants to be called Chelsea. 00:02:39.410 --> 00:02:44.110 align:middle line:84% And I want to dedicate this to her.