WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.860 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.860 --> 00:00:05.070 align:middle line:84% This is one called "Lying on an Air Mattress at Walter Keller's 00:00:05.070 --> 00:00:07.917 align:middle line:84% Garage Apartment in Athens, West Virginia." 00:00:07.917 --> 00:00:14.130 align:middle line:90% 00:00:14.130 --> 00:00:19.320 align:middle line:84% "Over my head, I hear the fat blowflies 00:00:19.320 --> 00:00:22.980 align:middle line:90% blowing the stale potted meat. 00:00:22.980 --> 00:00:25.710 align:middle line:84% In the night, Walter's German shepherds 00:00:25.710 --> 00:00:30.870 align:middle line:84% follow one another into the distances of the bathroom. 00:00:30.870 --> 00:00:36.780 align:middle line:84% They sound like tidal waves as they drink from the commode, 00:00:36.780 --> 00:00:42.720 align:middle line:84% where last night's droppings sink down into golden urine. 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:48.600 align:middle line:84% I lean back as my love snores daintily beside me. 00:00:48.600 --> 00:00:51.060 align:middle line:90% There is a reading tomorrow. 00:00:51.060 --> 00:00:53.460 align:middle line:90% It is 4 AM. 00:00:53.460 --> 00:00:57.210 align:middle line:90% This mattress leaks, hissing. 00:00:57.210 --> 00:01:00.500 align:middle line:84% I have wasted Walter's patching glue." 00:01:00.500 --> 00:01:01.000 align:middle line:90%