You don't have to do that.
I enjoy this.
OK.
Now secondly, I would like to read
to you a few selections from the first thing that I ever wrote.
This is a collection called ''short talks'' and short
talks--
a short talk is a one minute lecture
on this or that subject.
And I feel I invented this form and I did so
when I was teaching at Princeton in the '80s.
If you've ever been to Princeton,
you will know why there was a need
for the invention of such poem.
[LAUGHTER]
"Short talk on homo sapiens"
"With small cuts cro-magnon man recorded the moon's phases
on the handles of his tools, thinking about her
as he worked.
Animals, horizon, face in a pan of water.
In every story I tell comes a point where
I can see no further.
I hate that point.
It is why they call storytellers blind.
It is a taunt."