WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.700 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.700 --> 00:00:03.840 align:middle line:84% I want to read these haikus, and then I'll 00:00:03.840 --> 00:00:10.110 align:middle line:84% read this poem, this last poem, which is, I like to close with. 00:00:10.110 --> 00:00:12.330 align:middle line:84% These haikus are down under the ground where 00:00:12.330 --> 00:00:14.460 align:middle line:84% these people come in the morning, 00:00:14.460 --> 00:00:15.810 align:middle line:90% and they go under the ground. 00:00:15.810 --> 00:00:18.337 align:middle line:84% And they come out, and it's 5:00. 00:00:18.337 --> 00:00:20.670 align:middle line:84% And then other people come in at 5:00, and they come out 00:00:20.670 --> 00:00:21.720 align:middle line:90% and its dark. 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:23.640 align:middle line:84% So when I went to talk to them, when we all 00:00:23.640 --> 00:00:27.180 align:middle line:84% talk to these people, talk to these men who work there, 00:00:27.180 --> 00:00:30.360 align:middle line:84% and I ask them how it was to work underground all the time. 00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:33.280 align:middle line:84% And they said it was really daunting. 00:00:33.280 --> 00:00:35.730 align:middle line:90% It was daunting. 00:00:35.730 --> 00:00:37.885 align:middle line:84% Down there it was dark all the time. 00:00:37.885 --> 00:00:39.930 align:middle line:84% They wanted to think of something nice. 00:00:39.930 --> 00:00:43.390 align:middle line:84% So I thought about that, and I thought about that. 00:00:43.390 --> 00:00:45.990 align:middle line:84% And I also thought because the bureaucrats-- you know, 00:00:45.990 --> 00:00:47.820 align:middle line:84% bureaucrats don't understand poets. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:49.965 align:middle line:84% They're always saying, don't write nothing long. 00:00:49.965 --> 00:00:53.177 align:middle line:90% 00:00:53.177 --> 00:00:53.802 align:middle line:90% Do not write -- 00:00:53.802 --> 00:00:55.050 align:middle line:90% Just make it short. 00:00:55.050 --> 00:00:59.383 align:middle line:90% 00:00:59.383 --> 00:01:01.425 align:middle line:84% I had never seen that much energy out of it them. 00:01:01.425 --> 00:01:04.060 align:middle line:84% They were always passive until they thought about the poem. 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:06.030 align:middle line:90% Then they were like write short. 00:01:06.030 --> 00:01:10.470 align:middle line:84% Something short or we won't put it up there. 00:01:10.470 --> 00:01:13.080 align:middle line:90% So I said haiku. 00:01:13.080 --> 00:01:13.740 align:middle line:90% That's short. 00:01:13.740 --> 00:01:16.728 align:middle line:90% 00:01:16.728 --> 00:01:18.270 align:middle line:84% So this is what I call the Point Loma 00:01:18.270 --> 00:01:19.590 align:middle line:90% series of haikus and tankas. 00:01:19.590 --> 00:01:22.840 align:middle line:84% And they're down underground, so I'll read you a few of them. 00:01:22.840 --> 00:01:24.720 align:middle line:84% And one is not a haiku or a tanka, 00:01:24.720 --> 00:01:26.850 align:middle line:84% it's just about five lines but it's not either one. 00:01:26.850 --> 00:01:29.880 align:middle line:90% 00:01:29.880 --> 00:01:31.250 align:middle line:90% And I'll just pause in between. 00:01:31.250 --> 00:01:35.020 align:middle line:90% 00:01:35.020 --> 00:01:38.530 align:middle line:90% "Beauty, all places here. 00:01:38.530 --> 00:01:41.440 align:middle line:90% Look inside yourself now. 00:01:41.440 --> 00:01:43.615 align:middle line:90% Look deeper, it's there." 00:01:43.615 --> 00:01:46.120 align:middle line:90% 00:01:46.120 --> 00:01:49.570 align:middle line:84% "Gray day underground in the tunnel. 00:01:49.570 --> 00:01:54.070 align:middle line:84% Bright, warm sun outside in the blue. 00:01:54.070 --> 00:01:59.915 align:middle line:84% Inside your own deep working, time, thoughts of making sweet 00:01:59.915 --> 00:02:00.415 align:middle line:90% love." 00:02:00.415 --> 00:02:02.920 align:middle line:90% 00:02:02.920 --> 00:02:07.030 align:middle line:84% "Think of making love to the work that you do here. 00:02:07.030 --> 00:02:13.240 align:middle line:84% Think of it as song, music whispering, a breeze, 00:02:13.240 --> 00:02:17.980 align:middle line:90% a tongue of someone you love." 00:02:17.980 --> 00:02:21.460 align:middle line:84% "Think of a sweet place now that you are here 00:02:21.460 --> 00:02:23.590 align:middle line:90% in all this darkness. 00:02:23.590 --> 00:02:27.190 align:middle line:84% Light where you are standing with yourself, 00:02:27.190 --> 00:02:30.550 align:middle line:90% wherever you have to go." 00:02:30.550 --> 00:02:33.640 align:middle line:84% "Smile whenever you think of the sweet love 00:02:33.640 --> 00:02:37.210 align:middle line:90% blooming inside your hard head. 00:02:37.210 --> 00:02:43.660 align:middle line:84% Think of it as a flower you will hand to someone soon." 00:02:43.660 --> 00:02:47.620 align:middle line:84% "Down here in darkness think of roses 00:02:47.620 --> 00:02:51.970 align:middle line:84% when you look at these concrete walls." 00:02:51.970 --> 00:02:55.930 align:middle line:84% "Your mind a window to look inside yourself. 00:02:55.930 --> 00:03:02.860 align:middle line:84% See a rich garden there bright with flowers whose faces pop 00:03:02.860 --> 00:03:06.820 align:middle line:90% the air like sweet music." 00:03:06.820 --> 00:03:10.660 align:middle line:84% "Deep rumblings in air is sound of sea waves 00:03:10.660 --> 00:03:16.420 align:middle line:84% smashing skulls of wet black rocks." 00:03:16.420 --> 00:03:20.860 align:middle line:84% "Your lover eyes speak to you so softly in this place 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:28.870 align:middle line:84% of wind, sea, bright blue sky, sunlight after the gray lifts 00:03:28.870 --> 00:03:32.730 align:middle line:90% stuns your face into smiling." 00:03:32.730 --> 00:03:34.000 align:middle line:90%