WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.300 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.300 --> 00:00:02.350 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Jason. 00:00:02.350 --> 00:00:05.116 align:middle line:90% It's a lie, first of all. 00:00:05.116 --> 00:00:06.620 align:middle line:90% I didn't save his life. 00:00:06.620 --> 00:00:08.080 align:middle line:90% I just didn't let him die. 00:00:08.080 --> 00:00:09.250 align:middle line:90% I was sure you'd kill me. 00:00:09.250 --> 00:00:14.520 align:middle line:84% I didn't kill you, which I don't every second I know you, so. 00:00:14.520 --> 00:00:20.000 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.000 --> 00:00:23.070 align:middle line:84% He's really the best friend anyone has quantified. 00:00:23.070 --> 00:00:25.880 align:middle line:90% It's Jason. 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:30.530 align:middle line:84% Thank you, and Thanks to Maddie for letting me -- 00:00:30.530 --> 00:00:31.440 align:middle line:90% Can people hear me? 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:33.304 align:middle line:84% I don't feel like I'm amplifying. 00:00:33.304 --> 00:00:34.236 align:middle line:90% It's OK? 00:00:34.236 --> 00:00:36.720 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:00:36.720 --> 00:00:40.090 align:middle line:84% It's a great pleasure to read with--and challenge to read with--Richard 00:00:40.090 --> 00:00:45.450 align:middle line:90% Siken more than any other poet. 00:00:45.450 --> 00:00:47.060 align:middle line:90% It makes me more nervous than-- 00:00:47.060 --> 00:00:50.780 align:middle line:90% 00:00:50.780 --> 00:00:55.862 align:middle line:84% but I'm glad that we've had a chance to become friends. 00:00:55.862 --> 00:00:57.320 align:middle line:84% We sort of secretly decided that we 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:03.590 align:middle line:84% want to do other things in different ways. 00:01:03.590 --> 00:01:07.580 align:middle line:84% So this first poem is for Richard 00:01:07.580 --> 00:01:11.867 align:middle line:84% who sort of complicates what I mean by the same question, 00:01:11.867 --> 00:01:12.700 align:middle line:90% "The Same Question". 00:01:12.700 --> 00:01:15.630 align:middle line:90% 00:01:15.630 --> 00:01:18.510 align:middle line:84% "Weissmuller lifts himself out second. 00:01:18.510 --> 00:01:22.290 align:middle line:84% A pool is a somehow still part of the stream. 00:01:22.290 --> 00:01:24.930 align:middle line:84% Send in a hat of pith close to current. 00:01:24.930 --> 00:01:28.890 align:middle line:84% It fusses at distinction and keeps a winding oath. 00:01:28.890 --> 00:01:32.520 align:middle line:84% The two had toggled at the bank, to a watery reprise. 00:01:32.520 --> 00:01:35.260 align:middle line:84% There's another trick in the scene ashore. 00:01:35.260 --> 00:01:38.550 align:middle line:84% They sit in confrontation folding thrillingly 00:01:38.550 --> 00:01:41.145 align:middle line:90% at the meridian of first facing. 00:01:41.145 --> 00:01:44.400 align:middle line:84% He prepares a lesson on site and reaches 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:47.370 align:middle line:84% to hide her eyes when Jane has the better idea, giddy 00:01:47.370 --> 00:01:49.438 align:middle line:84% atop the promise of sex with a swimmer, 00:01:49.438 --> 00:01:52.700 align:middle line:90% to mirror her hand against his. 00:01:52.700 --> 00:01:54.920 align:middle line:84% Then disoblige the likeness applied, 00:01:54.920 --> 00:01:57.710 align:middle line:84% turning it, as the sound to the sea, 00:01:57.710 --> 00:02:00.860 align:middle line:84% measure for counter measure "different. 00:02:00.860 --> 00:02:04.130 align:middle line:90% Do you like the difference?" 00:02:04.130 --> 00:02:07.160 align:middle line:84% When have I been, so new to nature? 00:02:07.160 --> 00:02:09.669 align:middle line:84% I helped the drifter you sent to my rock bed. 00:02:09.669 --> 00:02:10.940 align:middle line:90% There now. 00:02:10.940 --> 00:02:15.320 align:middle line:84% He says it's the same body, water the one world over. 00:02:15.320 --> 00:02:17.420 align:middle line:84% We shifted stones in the brook and asked one 00:02:17.420 --> 00:02:19.820 align:middle line:84% another the same questions about you, 00:02:19.820 --> 00:02:22.760 align:middle line:84% and troubled the water masterlessly. 00:02:22.760 --> 00:02:24.890 align:middle line:84% Turned us right up onto a public beach. 00:02:24.890 --> 00:02:26.930 align:middle line:84% You should see the calcified tail 00:02:26.930 --> 00:02:30.020 align:middle line:90% he found in the Snapple bottle. 00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:33.110 align:middle line:84% We fed lines through the terrarium at the aquarium. 00:02:33.110 --> 00:02:36.080 align:middle line:84% Everything cascades all over again, 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:39.200 align:middle line:84% and why, who have I crept alongside somehow 00:02:39.200 --> 00:02:42.766 align:middle line:84% still piloting the world over my one life on elbows 00:02:42.766 --> 00:02:46.180 align:middle line:84% to at the least level drain my recalcitrant head 00:02:46.180 --> 00:02:49.138 align:middle line:90% in his hand and some sand." 00:02:49.138 --> 00:03:00.980 align:middle line:90% 00:03:00.980 --> 00:03:02.720 align:middle line:84% "To Come True A Thing Must Come Second". 00:03:02.720 --> 00:03:05.410 align:middle line:90% 00:03:05.410 --> 00:03:08.440 align:middle line:84% "Once was a story of following, following. 00:03:08.440 --> 00:03:10.930 align:middle line:84% Return is rarely the reverse I value, 00:03:10.930 --> 00:03:13.590 align:middle line:84% or so I led you like a zero out the zoo, 00:03:13.590 --> 00:03:18.520 align:middle line:84% toured it twice at once for your regard and came to understand. 00:03:18.520 --> 00:03:21.542 align:middle line:84% Roughing it, a captive is another whom a captive asks 00:03:21.542 --> 00:03:22.750 align:middle line:90% which one of us stays wilder. 00:03:22.750 --> 00:03:25.560 align:middle line:90% 00:03:25.560 --> 00:03:28.770 align:middle line:84% We catch them polar in the Bronx among the shots of me 00:03:28.770 --> 00:03:29.910 align:middle line:90% looked at in the eyes. 00:03:29.910 --> 00:03:31.860 align:middle line:84% The check of one tactic - drowsing 00:03:31.860 --> 00:03:37.130 align:middle line:84% in the rear - against another - pacing the periphery." 00:03:37.130 --> 00:03:39.000 align:middle line:90%