WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.780 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.780 --> 00:00:09.260 align:middle line:84% In this new poem, the person loved somehow 00:00:09.260 --> 00:00:13.040 align:middle line:84% merges with the figure of death, and that's 00:00:13.040 --> 00:00:16.610 align:middle line:90% the title is "To the Butcher." 00:00:16.610 --> 00:00:20.000 align:middle line:84% It's in little short sections, I'll just pause between them. 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:29.000 align:middle line:90% 00:00:29.000 --> 00:00:34.220 align:middle line:84% "When you arrive, I tell you I was a different person, 00:00:34.220 --> 00:00:36.680 align:middle line:90% a cellular anybody. 00:00:36.680 --> 00:00:42.300 align:middle line:84% All the stones on the beach, or a piece of glass 00:00:42.300 --> 00:00:49.320 align:middle line:84% in a low bead of sunlight, but I am myself to you. 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:54.990 align:middle line:84% A blue plate of grapes, the frosts grass to you, 00:00:54.990 --> 00:00:56.295 align:middle line:90% you the king's seal. 00:00:56.295 --> 00:01:03.070 align:middle line:90% 00:01:03.070 --> 00:01:08.410 align:middle line:84% Your hair is a dirge harp or the mold on the last squash I grew. 00:01:08.410 --> 00:01:10.360 align:middle line:84% How can I breathe with all that smoke 00:01:10.360 --> 00:01:13.510 align:middle line:84% around your face like premature beauty, 00:01:13.510 --> 00:01:16.810 align:middle line:90% all those winter twigs you comb. 00:01:16.810 --> 00:01:20.920 align:middle line:84% Alpaca, you help me put my coat on and insinuate me 00:01:20.920 --> 00:01:25.060 align:middle line:84% through so many doors you must have felt some of my love. 00:01:25.060 --> 00:01:28.720 align:middle line:84% And you ride me around on the gray seat of your gray car. 00:01:28.720 --> 00:01:32.230 align:middle line:84% I love you little silver ash on my fingers. 00:01:32.230 --> 00:01:37.960 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.960 --> 00:01:43.550 align:middle line:84% To be alone with you in the kitchen, or by the window, 00:01:43.550 --> 00:01:46.360 align:middle line:84% there is a knife in my stomach by the broken 00:01:46.360 --> 00:01:50.890 align:middle line:90% window in the spotless kitchen. 00:01:50.890 --> 00:01:55.060 align:middle line:84% To be molecularly with you, to drink with you, 00:01:55.060 --> 00:01:58.300 align:middle line:84% to hear my little girl singing on my grave, 00:01:58.300 --> 00:02:01.840 align:middle line:84% to hear her singing over our bed. 00:02:01.840 --> 00:02:06.010 align:middle line:84% There is a weed in my arm, to have my hands 00:02:06.010 --> 00:02:09.610 align:middle line:84% in the sink, and your fingernails in my ribs, 00:02:09.610 --> 00:02:12.460 align:middle line:84% to have you, the glacier, lift me. 00:02:12.460 --> 00:02:20.410 align:middle line:90% 00:02:20.410 --> 00:02:23.440 align:middle line:84% This is the under dream that you will move down 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:26.290 align:middle line:90% this beam of water to me. 00:02:26.290 --> 00:02:31.840 align:middle line:84% That we must wade a flooded road for love of a water Lily. 00:02:31.840 --> 00:02:34.270 align:middle line:84% That you will say, 'please die with me, 00:02:34.270 --> 00:02:39.850 align:middle line:84% be my child,' and then my ovum be my oxygen. 00:02:39.850 --> 00:02:44.350 align:middle line:84% That you will shoot me for the rabbits you see all over me, 00:02:44.350 --> 00:02:47.560 align:middle line:84% that my two pheasants will seduce you, 00:02:47.560 --> 00:02:51.880 align:middle line:84% that my nautilus will make you dive, 00:02:51.880 --> 00:02:55.450 align:middle line:84% that you will become the mosquito, 00:02:55.450 --> 00:02:58.390 align:middle line:90% that you will be deaf. 00:02:58.390 --> 00:03:01.060 align:middle line:90% I don't want to speak to you. 00:03:01.060 --> 00:03:05.500 align:middle line:84% I want to be your useless ear bone that does not dissolve. 00:03:05.500 --> 00:03:12.780 align:middle line:90% 00:03:12.780 --> 00:03:17.070 align:middle line:84% 'Can I take you to the zoo?' the Skid Row man asked. 00:03:17.070 --> 00:03:20.070 align:middle line:84% 'I can show you lots of fun,' said a husky kid. 00:03:20.070 --> 00:03:25.470 align:middle line:84% I've had lots, and pointed to my five months belly. 00:03:25.470 --> 00:03:28.110 align:middle line:84% And in the porno shop, the old guy 00:03:28.110 --> 00:03:31.800 align:middle line:84% wanted to touch something so bad. 00:03:31.800 --> 00:03:34.590 align:middle line:84% The flying bird touches nothing, how must it feel? 00:03:34.590 --> 00:03:37.110 align:middle line:90% 00:03:37.110 --> 00:03:38.760 align:middle line:84% The one who chased me with his car 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:43.440 align:middle line:84% across the stadium parking lot, how different you are? 00:03:43.440 --> 00:03:48.120 align:middle line:84% The rocket men have confiscated your typewriter, 00:03:48.120 --> 00:03:51.360 align:middle line:84% the bomb men have threatened the death of the world 00:03:51.360 --> 00:03:54.510 align:middle line:90% with your bicycle. 00:03:54.510 --> 00:03:59.625 align:middle line:84% But you bring me a salad, and sorrow brings the table. 00:03:59.625 --> 00:04:06.480 align:middle line:90% 00:04:06.480 --> 00:04:09.570 align:middle line:90% The garlic is a box of gifts. 00:04:09.570 --> 00:04:15.780 align:middle line:84% Onyx turtles from Mexico, falcon beaks, frozen mineral water. 00:04:15.780 --> 00:04:19.620 align:middle line:84% It is the assembly of the moons of my fingernails gathered 00:04:19.620 --> 00:04:22.710 align:middle line:84% on my fingers into your hand, for cooking, 00:04:22.710 --> 00:04:24.900 align:middle line:90% for pairing, for soup and bread. 00:04:24.900 --> 00:04:27.740 align:middle line:90% 00:04:27.740 --> 00:04:33.710 align:middle line:84% The garlic in the market is the whore in the doorway, at home, 00:04:33.710 --> 00:04:37.240 align:middle line:84% it is the bone under my eye, the light in yours. 00:04:37.240 --> 00:04:43.780 align:middle line:90% 00:04:43.780 --> 00:04:47.950 align:middle line:84% The immense blue quilt is eating my arm. 00:04:47.950 --> 00:04:52.180 align:middle line:84% I saw one finger into it, then the next. 00:04:52.180 --> 00:04:54.820 align:middle line:84% It's diamonds are not wedding rings, 00:04:54.820 --> 00:04:56.350 align:middle line:90% they are surveyor's hearts. 00:04:56.350 --> 00:04:58.910 align:middle line:90% 00:04:58.910 --> 00:05:02.090 align:middle line:84% Bands go across it and disappear into inkless orbits. 00:05:02.090 --> 00:05:04.860 align:middle line:90% 00:05:04.860 --> 00:05:08.910 align:middle line:84% My two wings will be all that cannot be gotten in. 00:05:08.910 --> 00:05:11.805 align:middle line:84% You will pull the thread and pull my hair. 00:05:11.805 --> 00:05:14.520 align:middle line:90% 00:05:14.520 --> 00:05:19.890 align:middle line:84% I will weave your toes into it as into an escalator. 00:05:19.890 --> 00:05:22.185 align:middle line:84% I will stuff the batting into your ears. 00:05:22.185 --> 00:05:27.510 align:middle line:90% 00:05:27.510 --> 00:05:32.400 align:middle line:84% There are feelings that make me useless as bleached flour. 00:05:32.400 --> 00:05:36.990 align:middle line:84% My love and my fear of death serve white rice and sugar. 00:05:36.990 --> 00:05:39.930 align:middle line:90% 00:05:39.930 --> 00:05:44.670 align:middle line:84% Your lovely silent ear with its secret transcript knows this. 00:05:44.670 --> 00:05:45.255 align:middle line:90% It must. 00:05:45.255 --> 00:05:47.870 align:middle line:90% 00:05:47.870 --> 00:05:50.600 align:middle line:84% The details of a love or a death are not 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:59.960 align:middle line:84% much to tell ever, have no reason, but they stay around. 00:05:59.960 --> 00:06:06.050 align:middle line:84% Flour on an apron of a great chef hung away for dark. 00:06:06.050 --> 00:06:11.170 align:middle line:84% They pick up the moon, when it is the only light." 00:06:11.170 --> 00:06:16.000 align:middle line:90%