WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.170 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.170 --> 00:00:03.640 align:middle line:90% So a little change of pace. 00:00:03.640 --> 00:00:07.890 align:middle line:84% This is a newer poem I want to interrupt poems 00:00:07.890 --> 00:00:09.660 align:middle line:84% from this book with because I don't 00:00:09.660 --> 00:00:11.190 align:middle line:84% think I've ever read it aloud when 00:00:11.190 --> 00:00:12.923 align:middle line:90% TC Tolbert was in the room. 00:00:12.923 --> 00:00:14.340 align:middle line:84% This is a poem that I wrote for TC 00:00:14.340 --> 00:00:20.940 align:middle line:84% after a bike ride that we took about this time last year. 00:00:20.940 --> 00:00:21.610 align:middle line:90% It's true. 00:00:21.610 --> 00:00:22.440 align:middle line:90% It's a true poem. 00:00:22.440 --> 00:00:25.170 align:middle line:90% Poems can be true. 00:00:25.170 --> 00:00:28.140 align:middle line:84% It's called "Night Now," for TC, "Night Now." 00:00:28.140 --> 00:00:30.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:30.720 --> 00:00:32.729 align:middle line:84% "When things get bad enough, I know 00:00:32.729 --> 00:00:37.290 align:middle line:84% this rock, boulder, rather, artificial, actually, 00:00:37.290 --> 00:00:42.270 align:middle line:84% west side of a wash along Aviation east of Swan. 00:00:42.270 --> 00:00:45.600 align:middle line:84% The concrete shell at one end is busted open 00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:48.300 align:middle line:84% and the rebar pried wide enough for someone 00:00:48.300 --> 00:00:51.570 align:middle line:90% to enter the rock headlong. 00:00:51.570 --> 00:00:55.290 align:middle line:84% Inside, if you clear the bottles, and wadded rags, 00:00:55.290 --> 00:00:57.960 align:middle line:84% and short stack cans of Pringles, 00:00:57.960 --> 00:01:02.220 align:middle line:84% the cocoon sleeps two comfortably, or one. 00:01:02.220 --> 00:01:05.670 align:middle line:84% When things get so bad, there's one place past nowhere else 00:01:05.670 --> 00:01:07.120 align:middle line:90% to go. 00:01:07.120 --> 00:01:11.370 align:middle line:84% Looks like a rock with a rib cage rusting, length of a man 00:01:11.370 --> 00:01:12.810 align:middle line:90% your stature. 00:01:12.810 --> 00:01:13.980 align:middle line:90% Get in. 00:01:13.980 --> 00:01:15.480 align:middle line:90% I know you know. 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:17.750 align:middle line:90% The worst is over." 00:01:17.750 --> 00:01:19.000 align:middle line:90%