WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.904 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.904 --> 00:00:06.776 align:middle line:90% [SLOWLY PLAYING PIANO NOTES] 00:00:06.776 --> 00:00:11.140 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.140 --> 00:00:16.360 align:middle line:84% While we're alive, we kept repeating, tongues, throats, 00:00:16.360 --> 00:00:19.900 align:middle line:90% roofs of our mouths, bone dry. 00:00:19.900 --> 00:00:24.350 align:middle line:90% Skeletons, we'd someday be. 00:00:24.350 --> 00:00:27.680 align:middle line:84% Panicky masks we wore for effect, more than effect. 00:00:27.680 --> 00:00:29.585 align:middle line:90% More real than we'd admit. 00:00:29.585 --> 00:00:32.090 align:middle line:90% 00:00:32.090 --> 00:00:36.200 align:middle line:84% No longer wanting to know what soul was, happy to see 00:00:36.200 --> 00:00:39.410 align:middle line:90% shadow, no touch. 00:00:39.410 --> 00:00:42.890 align:middle line:84% Happy to have sun at our backs, way led by shadow. 00:00:42.890 --> 00:00:47.480 align:middle line:84% Happy to have bodies block light. 00:00:47.480 --> 00:00:52.070 align:middle line:84% Afternoon sun lighting leaf, glint of glass, no matter what. 00:00:52.070 --> 00:00:54.080 align:middle line:84% About to be out of body, it seemed. 00:00:54.080 --> 00:00:56.850 align:middle line:90% 00:00:56.850 --> 00:01:00.360 align:middle line:84% Soon to be shadowless, we thought, said we thought. 00:01:00.360 --> 00:01:04.440 align:middle line:90% Not to be off-guard, caught out. 00:01:04.440 --> 00:01:06.960 align:middle line:84% Great morning, we meant to be done with. 00:01:06.960 --> 00:01:10.500 align:middle line:84% Requiem so sweet, we forgot what it lamented. 00:01:10.500 --> 00:01:13.650 align:middle line:84% Teeth turning to sugar, we grinned. 00:01:13.650 --> 00:01:17.073 align:middle line:90% [SLOWLY PLAYING PIANO NOTES] 00:01:17.073 --> 00:01:36.660 align:middle line:90% 00:01:36.660 --> 00:01:41.040 align:middle line:84% Day after day of the dead, we were desperate. 00:01:41.040 --> 00:01:44.070 align:middle line:84% Dark with the night before, we saw lit. 00:01:44.070 --> 00:01:48.300 align:middle line:90% Bones, we'd eventually be. 00:01:48.300 --> 00:01:50.250 align:middle line:90% At day's end, a new tally. 00:01:50.250 --> 00:01:53.430 align:middle line:90% But there it was, barely begun. 00:01:53.430 --> 00:01:56.010 align:middle line:90% Rock the clock tower, let go of. 00:01:56.010 --> 00:02:01.240 align:middle line:84% Iridescent headstone, moments rebuff. 00:02:01.240 --> 00:02:03.730 align:middle line:90% Soul, we saw, said we saw. 00:02:03.730 --> 00:02:05.500 align:middle line:90% Invisible imprint. 00:02:05.500 --> 00:02:09.820 align:middle line:84% No one wanted to know what soul was. 00:02:09.820 --> 00:02:12.880 align:middle line:84% Day after day of the dead, we were death. 00:02:12.880 --> 00:02:15.940 align:middle line:84% Numb to what the night before we saw moved us. 00:02:15.940 --> 00:02:17.905 align:middle line:90% Fey light's coded locale. 00:02:17.905 --> 00:02:20.650 align:middle line:90% 00:02:20.650 --> 00:02:23.770 align:middle line:84% I fell away, we momentarily gone. 00:02:23.770 --> 00:02:26.770 align:middle line:90% Deaf but to brass's obsequy. 00:02:26.770 --> 00:02:30.920 align:middle line:90% Low brasses crooned, begun. 00:02:30.920 --> 00:02:33.560 align:middle line:90% I fell away, not fast. 00:02:33.560 --> 00:02:35.150 align:middle line:90% Floated. 00:02:35.150 --> 00:02:38.180 align:middle line:84% Momentary mentioned in accord with the wind. 00:02:38.180 --> 00:02:41.900 align:middle line:84% Day after day of the dead, the same as day before day 00:02:41.900 --> 00:02:43.850 align:middle line:90% of the dead. 00:02:43.850 --> 00:02:47.330 align:middle line:84% No surprise, I fell away, muttering. 00:02:47.330 --> 00:02:50.912 align:middle line:84% Knew no one would hear, not even me. 00:02:50.912 --> 00:02:54.314 align:middle line:90% [SLOWLY PLAYING PIANO NOTES] 00:02:54.314 --> 00:03:00.160 align:middle line:90% 00:03:00.160 --> 00:03:02.890 align:middle line:84% We wore capes, under which we were in sweaters, 00:03:02.890 --> 00:03:04.600 align:middle line:90% out at the elbow. 00:03:04.600 --> 00:03:08.620 align:middle line:84% Arms on the table, we chewed our spoons. 00:03:08.620 --> 00:03:11.680 align:middle line:84% Mouthing the blues, moaned an abstract truth. 00:03:11.680 --> 00:03:12.970 align:middle line:90% Kept eating. 00:03:12.970 --> 00:03:16.870 align:middle line:84% The dead's morning-after buffet, someone said it was. 00:03:16.870 --> 00:03:19.945 align:middle line:84% Feast of the unfed, said someone else. 00:03:19.945 --> 00:03:21.430 align:middle line:90% [PLAYING PIANO CHORD] 00:03:21.430 --> 00:03:24.940 align:middle line:84% What were we doing there, the exige kept asking. 00:03:24.940 --> 00:03:27.490 align:middle line:90% Adamant, uninvited, morose. 00:03:27.490 --> 00:03:29.530 align:middle line:90% [SLOWLY PLAYING PIANO NOTES] 00:03:29.530 --> 00:03:32.380 align:middle line:84% Elbows in the air like wings, we kept eating. 00:03:32.380 --> 00:03:35.662 align:middle line:84% Rolled our eyes, kept shoveling it in. 00:03:35.662 --> 00:03:37.390 align:middle line:90% [PLAYING PIANO CHORD] 00:03:37.390 --> 00:03:40.240 align:middle line:84% Day after day of the dead, we were them. 00:03:40.240 --> 00:03:43.082 align:middle line:84% We ate inexhaustibly, ate what wasn't there. 00:03:43.082 --> 00:03:44.290 align:middle line:90% [QUICKLY PLAYING PIANO NOTES] 00:03:44.290 --> 00:03:47.350 align:middle line:84% Dead no longer dying of thirst, hung over. 00:03:47.350 --> 00:03:49.600 align:middle line:90% Turned our noses up to what was. 00:03:49.600 --> 00:03:52.918 align:middle line:90% [QUICKLY PLAYING PIANO NOTES] 00:03:52.918 --> 00:03:59.830 align:middle line:90% 00:03:59.830 --> 00:04:00.850 align:middle line:90% It was me. 00:04:00.850 --> 00:04:03.490 align:middle line:90% We were it, in sensate. 00:04:03.490 --> 00:04:07.630 align:middle line:84% Sugared sweat, what we drank tasted like. 00:04:07.630 --> 00:04:11.260 align:middle line:84% Even so, the tips of our tongues tasted nothing. 00:04:11.260 --> 00:04:12.490 align:middle line:90% We sipped without wincing. 00:04:12.490 --> 00:04:13.657 align:middle line:90% [SLOWLY PLAYING PIANO NOTES] 00:04:13.657 --> 00:04:14.680 align:middle line:90% We ate cakes. 00:04:14.680 --> 00:04:18.910 align:middle line:84% We ate fingernail soup, a new kind of gazpacho, 00:04:18.910 --> 00:04:23.710 align:middle line:84% no one willing to say what soul was. 00:04:23.710 --> 00:04:25.660 align:middle line:90% Knuckle-bone souffle, we ate. 00:04:25.660 --> 00:04:27.010 align:middle line:90% We ate gristle. 00:04:27.010 --> 00:04:31.090 align:middle line:84% Eyes we took from flies, flying backward, a kind of caviar. 00:04:31.090 --> 00:04:34.980 align:middle line:84% None of us wanted to say what soul was. 00:04:34.980 --> 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