WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.940 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.940 --> 00:00:04.110 align:middle line:84% Can you talk about how George Bush influenced 00:00:04.110 --> 00:00:05.670 align:middle line:90% the second poem-- 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:06.900 align:middle line:90% or the second one you read. 00:00:06.900 --> 00:00:09.282 align:middle line:90% By me, I dedicate it to him. 00:00:09.282 --> 00:00:11.490 align:middle line:84% Are there any other true life characters that sort of 00:00:11.490 --> 00:00:13.680 align:middle line:84% influence your creation of Frank as a character? 00:00:13.680 --> 00:00:15.910 align:middle line:84% Oh, well, my family for some start. 00:00:15.910 --> 00:00:16.410 align:middle line:90% You know? 00:00:16.410 --> 00:00:19.830 align:middle line:90% Yeah, sometimes. 00:00:19.830 --> 00:00:20.640 align:middle line:90% It's a mash. 00:00:20.640 --> 00:00:23.510 align:middle line:84% I mean, I wrote the book over a 16-year period. 00:00:23.510 --> 00:00:28.380 align:middle line:84% There are like, I don't know, close to 1,300 of them 00:00:28.380 --> 00:00:30.000 align:middle line:90% after [INAUDIBLE]. 00:00:30.000 --> 00:00:35.820 align:middle line:84% But huh, big deal, because the 130 or so that are in the book, 00:00:35.820 --> 00:00:37.740 align:middle line:84% really I should just burn the rest of them 00:00:37.740 --> 00:00:38.990 align:middle line:90% because they're not very good. 00:00:38.990 --> 00:00:39.620 align:middle line:90% Aw. 00:00:39.620 --> 00:00:41.610 align:middle line:90% No, no aw about it. 00:00:41.610 --> 00:00:43.020 align:middle line:90% You're [INAUDIBLE]. 00:00:43.020 --> 00:00:43.710 align:middle line:90% But thank you. 00:00:43.710 --> 00:00:54.603 align:middle line:90% 00:00:54.603 --> 00:00:56.770 align:middle line:84% I'm just wondering when you wrote the Book of Frank, 00:00:56.770 --> 00:00:59.530 align:middle line:84% had you already begun your somatic rituals? 00:00:59.530 --> 00:01:00.580 align:middle line:90% No. 00:01:00.580 --> 00:01:02.320 align:middle line:90% I actually was finished. 00:01:02.320 --> 00:01:03.910 align:middle line:84% Charles Alexander, who's here, was 00:01:03.910 --> 00:01:07.510 align:middle line:84% the first to publish the book on Chax Press. 00:01:07.510 --> 00:01:12.580 align:middle line:84% And then, well, I actually kind of already stopped writing. 00:01:12.580 --> 00:01:16.630 align:middle line:84% I started writing those in 2005, so I guess the answer is yes, 00:01:16.630 --> 00:01:20.320 align:middle line:84% but that voice continued until the book was published 00:01:20.320 --> 00:01:21.070 align:middle line:90% and they stopped. 00:01:21.070 --> 00:01:22.120 align:middle line:90% The voice stopped. 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:24.605 align:middle line:84% So my question, then, is how is your-- 00:01:24.605 --> 00:01:26.230 align:middle line:84% when you were writing the Book of Frank 00:01:26.230 --> 00:01:28.840 align:middle line:84% and you were talking about the factory and the assembly line-- 00:01:28.840 --> 00:01:29.950 align:middle line:90% Right. 00:01:29.950 --> 00:01:31.840 align:middle line:84% Was that part of the Book of Frank, 00:01:31.840 --> 00:01:33.860 align:middle line:90% or did your poetry change, or-- 00:01:33.860 --> 00:01:34.510 align:middle line:90% Well no. 00:01:34.510 --> 00:01:35.468 align:middle line:90% I started writing that. 00:01:35.468 --> 00:01:38.680 align:middle line:84% I found out about my assembly line in 2005. 00:01:38.680 --> 00:01:41.590 align:middle line:84% I'd been writing that book for years already, 00:01:41.590 --> 00:01:46.870 align:middle line:84% and actually I'm going to tell you how, if you don't mind, 00:01:46.870 --> 00:01:49.330 align:middle line:84% the Book of Frank was born out of a crisis. 00:01:49.330 --> 00:01:53.290 align:middle line:90% 00:01:53.290 --> 00:01:57.880 align:middle line:84% So I was moving into a new apartment in Philadelphia 00:01:57.880 --> 00:02:02.710 align:middle line:84% with these two dyke friends of mine, and my one friend, Jo, 00:02:02.710 --> 00:02:04.600 align:middle line:84% she went ahead to let the gas man in 00:02:04.600 --> 00:02:09.935 align:middle line:84% and they turn on the lights and thousands of roaches scattered, 00:02:09.935 --> 00:02:12.310 align:middle line:84% and she called us up and said, we're not moving in there. 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:13.828 align:middle line:90% That's just not happening. 00:02:13.828 --> 00:02:15.370 align:middle line:84% And we were packing and we were like, 00:02:15.370 --> 00:02:16.660 align:middle line:84% you know, what are you talking about? 00:02:16.660 --> 00:02:16.870 align:middle line:90% You know? 00:02:16.870 --> 00:02:17.590 align:middle line:90% We're moving. 00:02:17.590 --> 00:02:18.830 align:middle line:90% Now. 00:02:18.830 --> 00:02:20.320 align:middle line:90% So we didn't. 00:02:20.320 --> 00:02:23.860 align:middle line:84% And I went to my friend, Marsha, and who was a priestess 00:02:23.860 --> 00:02:25.860 align:middle line:90% in the Santerian religion. 00:02:25.860 --> 00:02:28.737 align:middle line:90% I said Marsha, what can I do? 00:02:28.737 --> 00:02:31.070 align:middle line:84% She's like, all right, I'm going to tell you what to do, 00:02:31.070 --> 00:02:33.670 align:middle line:84% but you better do it exactly the way I say. 00:02:33.670 --> 00:02:34.402 align:middle line:90% I said all right. 00:02:34.402 --> 00:02:36.610 align:middle line:84% So she sent me to Harry's Spiritual Supply and Occult 00:02:36.610 --> 00:02:41.050 align:middle line:84% Store on South Street to buy a seven African power candle. 00:02:41.050 --> 00:02:43.960 align:middle line:84% And she told me what kind of rum to buy and cigars. 00:02:43.960 --> 00:02:44.950 align:middle line:90% It's a whole thing. 00:02:44.950 --> 00:02:49.300 align:middle line:84% And I had to feed the orishas properly. 00:02:49.300 --> 00:02:51.430 align:middle line:84% And you know, found an apartment that 00:02:51.430 --> 00:02:55.462 align:middle line:84% was the most beautiful place I've ever lived, 00:02:55.462 --> 00:02:56.670 align:middle line:90% except this wasn't in Tucson. 00:02:56.670 --> 00:02:59.132 align:middle line:90% 00:02:59.132 --> 00:03:00.840 align:middle line:84% I think any place in Tucson is beautiful. 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:05.780 align:middle line:84% But anyway, so-- and it was cheaper. 00:03:05.780 --> 00:03:08.910 align:middle line:84% It was going to cost us like $250 apiece. 00:03:08.910 --> 00:03:12.490 align:middle line:84% It was like, really cheap, no bugs, great sunlight, you know? 00:03:12.490 --> 00:03:18.850 align:middle line:84% Anyway, but I screwed up with feeding the orishas. 00:03:18.850 --> 00:03:20.770 align:middle line:90% My cigars, I don't know. 00:03:20.770 --> 00:03:24.010 align:middle line:84% I just don't like cigars, and like, we got the apartment. 00:03:24.010 --> 00:03:25.840 align:middle line:90% It's fine now, right? 00:03:25.840 --> 00:03:26.680 align:middle line:90% I came back. 00:03:26.680 --> 00:03:29.020 align:middle line:84% I didn't follow what she told me to do, and that cra-- 00:03:29.020 --> 00:03:32.320 align:middle line:84% so the candle was in a glass cylinder 00:03:32.320 --> 00:03:36.830 align:middle line:84% and it was split in half and splayed open. 00:03:36.830 --> 00:03:37.330 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:03:37.330 --> 00:03:40.000 align:middle line:84% And I called her up and I said, this doesn't look right. 00:03:40.000 --> 00:03:43.300 align:middle line:84% And she said, did you forget to feed the orishas? 00:03:43.300 --> 00:03:44.560 align:middle line:90% And I said, well, yeah. 00:03:44.560 --> 00:03:47.500 align:middle line:84% She's like, well, I don't know what to tell you, 00:03:47.500 --> 00:03:50.800 align:middle line:84% but they're going to take something from you now. 00:03:50.800 --> 00:03:53.720 align:middle line:90% And this is all true. 00:03:53.720 --> 00:03:54.350 align:middle line:90% Seriously. 00:03:54.350 --> 00:03:57.920 align:middle line:84% So we go on moving day, and we've got our U-Haul, 00:03:57.920 --> 00:04:00.440 align:middle line:84% and we're like kind of poor, so we're like, 00:04:00.440 --> 00:04:01.882 align:middle line:84% let's get this U-Haul unloaded now 00:04:01.882 --> 00:04:03.590 align:middle line:84% and get it back and get the cheaper rate. 00:04:03.590 --> 00:04:07.040 align:middle line:84% So the three of us are upstairs like idiots with a U-Haul open. 00:04:07.040 --> 00:04:07.970 align:middle line:90% It's Philadelphia. 00:04:07.970 --> 00:04:10.142 align:middle line:90% You don't do that. 00:04:10.142 --> 00:04:11.600 align:middle line:84% And somebody yells up and they say, 00:04:11.600 --> 00:04:12.890 align:middle line:90% there's somebody in your U-Haul. 00:04:12.890 --> 00:04:13.765 align:middle line:90% And we go down there. 00:04:13.765 --> 00:04:16.279 align:middle line:84% Sure enough, somebody tore through the U-Haul. 00:04:16.279 --> 00:04:18.862 align:middle line:90% It took a little while-- 00:04:18.862 --> 00:04:20.779 align:middle line:84% a couple of weeks to find out what was stolen, 00:04:20.779 --> 00:04:23.150 align:middle line:84% and what was stolen was a box of mine. 00:04:23.150 --> 00:04:28.670 align:middle line:84% It was eight years of daily journal writing. 00:04:28.670 --> 00:04:31.760 align:middle line:84% And I mean, I've never seen those again. 00:04:31.760 --> 00:04:32.450 align:middle line:90% It's gone. 00:04:32.450 --> 00:04:35.420 align:middle line:84% And a big three-ring binder of onion skin, 00:04:35.420 --> 00:04:37.220 align:middle line:84% carbon copies of letters I'd written 00:04:37.220 --> 00:04:41.180 align:middle line:84% to poets all over the world, Cid Corman in Kyoto, 00:04:41.180 --> 00:04:44.330 align:middle line:84% and like all these poets so I was in correspondence with her 00:04:44.330 --> 00:04:45.120 align:middle line:90% over the years. 00:04:45.120 --> 00:04:46.820 align:middle line:90% So it was just gone, you know? 00:04:46.820 --> 00:04:51.740 align:middle line:84% And I was so depressed, like really in a dark place. 00:04:51.740 --> 00:04:57.325 align:middle line:84% And yeah, like that was '92, and the beginning of '93, 00:04:57.325 --> 00:04:59.450 align:middle line:84% there was a voice came to me and it was these poems 00:04:59.450 --> 00:05:01.310 align:middle line:84% and they would come out directly. 00:05:01.310 --> 00:05:04.880 align:middle line:84% It was just total dictation, and it just brought me back 00:05:04.880 --> 00:05:06.320 align:middle line:90% to life, and it made me happy. 00:05:06.320 --> 00:05:07.820 align:middle line:84% And I just kept writing these things 00:05:07.820 --> 00:05:11.570 align:middle line:84% and I feel like they changed my life and I love them. 00:05:11.570 --> 00:05:12.350 align:middle line:90% So yeah. 00:05:12.350 --> 00:05:14.460 align:middle line:90% That's the story about that. 00:05:14.460 --> 00:05:15.860 align:middle line:90% Are there any other questions? 00:05:15.860 --> 00:05:20.448 align:middle line:90% 00:05:20.448 --> 00:05:21.365 align:middle line:90% Gentleman in the back? 00:05:21.365 --> 00:05:24.420 align:middle line:90% 00:05:24.420 --> 00:05:24.920 align:middle line:90% Hi. 00:05:24.920 --> 00:05:29.160 align:middle line:90% 00:05:29.160 --> 00:05:30.840 align:middle line:90% You made us better tonight. 00:05:30.840 --> 00:05:31.710 align:middle line:90% Oh, thank you. 00:05:31.710 --> 00:05:33.494 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:05:33.494 --> 00:05:37.640 align:middle line:84% I was wondering, how do you do art for a living, 00:05:37.640 --> 00:05:41.490 align:middle line:90% like art [INAUDIBLE]? 00:05:41.490 --> 00:05:45.540 align:middle line:84% OK, well, I hadn't done it very well for a while. 00:05:45.540 --> 00:05:49.660 align:middle line:90% And always very poor. 00:05:49.660 --> 00:05:55.530 align:middle line:84% And I was working at Giovanni's Room Bookstore, which 00:05:55.530 --> 00:05:58.260 align:middle line:84% is the world's largest gay and lesbian, queer feminist 00:05:58.260 --> 00:06:00.840 align:middle line:84% bookstore in Philadelphia for years, 00:06:00.840 --> 00:06:03.690 align:middle line:84% and then Borders moved around the corner 00:06:03.690 --> 00:06:05.670 align:middle line:84% and just really wanted to sock it to the store. 00:06:05.670 --> 00:06:07.650 align:middle line:84% They're just-- I'm so glad they're gone. 00:06:07.650 --> 00:06:08.377 align:middle line:90% Whatever. 00:06:08.377 --> 00:06:09.210 align:middle line:90% Not Giovanni's Room. 00:06:09.210 --> 00:06:10.043 align:middle line:90% They're still there. 00:06:10.043 --> 00:06:11.220 align:middle line:90% I mean Borders. 00:06:11.220 --> 00:06:14.310 align:middle line:84% And I just wanted to burn that store to the ground 00:06:14.310 --> 00:06:17.865 align:middle line:84% when it came around the corner, you know? 00:06:17.865 --> 00:06:18.990 align:middle line:90% Because I'll tell you what. 00:06:18.990 --> 00:06:20.698 align:middle line:84% Giovanni's Room Bookstore-- you go there, 00:06:20.698 --> 00:06:22.860 align:middle line:84% you're never going to be in a place ever 00:06:22.860 --> 00:06:28.440 align:middle line:84% again in your life with every gay, lesbian, bisexual, trans, 00:06:28.440 --> 00:06:32.100 align:middle line:84% feminist book that's in print like that in one place. 00:06:32.100 --> 00:06:33.540 align:middle line:90% It's great. 00:06:33.540 --> 00:06:39.390 align:middle line:84% Anyhow, anyway, I had to get laid off because of Borders, 00:06:39.390 --> 00:06:41.607 align:middle line:84% and they started having volunteer stuff. 00:06:41.607 --> 00:06:42.940 align:middle line:90% I mean, that was how bad it was. 00:06:42.940 --> 00:06:46.440 align:middle line:84% So I took a job at Barnes and Noble 00:06:46.440 --> 00:06:50.130 align:middle line:84% and was working full time with all these Nazis 00:06:50.130 --> 00:06:53.520 align:middle line:84% from the corporate office, like monitoring your keystrokes, 00:06:53.520 --> 00:06:56.550 align:middle line:84% you know, like all this creepy stuff they do to you. 00:06:56.550 --> 00:06:57.900 align:middle line:90% And I would take home so little. 00:06:57.900 --> 00:06:58.858 align:middle line:90% I was the only person-- 00:06:58.858 --> 00:07:00.873 align:middle line:90% I refused to get a second job. 00:07:00.873 --> 00:07:02.040 align:middle line:90% I was the only person there. 00:07:02.040 --> 00:07:05.225 align:middle line:84% I mean, I'm like, I'm not going to work two jobs, 00:07:05.225 --> 00:07:06.100 align:middle line:90% you know what I mean? 00:07:06.100 --> 00:07:07.140 align:middle line:90% I'm here to write. 00:07:07.140 --> 00:07:08.550 align:middle line:90% I didn't come to Earth to-- 00:07:08.550 --> 00:07:09.780 align:middle line:90% I hate Barnes and Noble. 00:07:09.780 --> 00:07:11.277 align:middle line:90% You know? 00:07:11.277 --> 00:07:12.360 align:middle line:90% And it would be so little. 00:07:12.360 --> 00:07:14.250 align:middle line:84% It was like, less than $800 a month. 00:07:14.250 --> 00:07:16.120 align:middle line:90% Full time job. 00:07:16.120 --> 00:07:19.530 align:middle line:84% So then I got laid off in 2008 like a lot of people 00:07:19.530 --> 00:07:21.465 align:middle line:84% because the world fell to pieces, 00:07:21.465 --> 00:07:23.340 align:middle line:84% and I was living on unemployment for a while. 00:07:23.340 --> 00:07:24.630 align:middle line:90% I couldn't find a job. 00:07:24.630 --> 00:07:26.820 align:middle line:84% And then I was behind rent two months, 00:07:26.820 --> 00:07:29.940 align:middle line:84% and I was like, hearing like, you're going to be evicted. 00:07:29.940 --> 00:07:32.190 align:middle line:84% And they're like, I was like, great. 00:07:32.190 --> 00:07:32.730 align:middle line:90% Whatever. 00:07:32.730 --> 00:07:33.900 align:middle line:90% Here we go again. 00:07:33.900 --> 00:07:36.360 align:middle line:84% And then I won the Pew Fellowship in the Arts 00:07:36.360 --> 00:07:38.940 align:middle line:90% and it's amazing. 00:07:38.940 --> 00:07:42.270 align:middle line:84% My mother thinks it's a big joke, you know? 00:07:42.270 --> 00:07:45.750 align:middle line:84% She's like from working class people and she says, 00:07:45.750 --> 00:07:47.670 align:middle line:84% they gave you money to write poems? 00:07:47.670 --> 00:07:49.065 align:middle line:90% This is such a stupid situation. 00:07:49.065 --> 00:07:50.190 align:middle line:90% What are you talking about? 00:07:50.190 --> 00:07:51.940 align:middle line:84% And then when I'd go to these residencies, 00:07:51.940 --> 00:07:53.910 align:middle line:84% she's like, I know this is bullshit now 00:07:53.910 --> 00:07:56.160 align:middle line:90% that you're like, getting fed. 00:07:56.160 --> 00:07:57.120 align:middle line:90% They make you dinner? 00:07:57.120 --> 00:07:58.290 align:middle line:90% They bring you a lunch? 00:07:58.290 --> 00:08:00.002 align:middle line:90% This is ridiculous. 00:08:00.002 --> 00:08:01.710 align:middle line:84% This is what you're doing with your life? 00:08:01.710 --> 00:08:02.850 align:middle line:90% I'm like, well, whatever. 00:08:02.850 --> 00:08:04.740 align:middle line:90% I don't want to go any further. 00:08:04.740 --> 00:08:06.310 align:middle line:90% So yeah, that's what happened. 00:08:06.310 --> 00:08:10.320 align:middle line:84% And now I'm piecing things together, you know, to like, 00:08:10.320 --> 00:08:11.850 align:middle line:90% make a living. 00:08:11.850 --> 00:08:13.500 align:middle line:90% Traveling around. 00:08:13.500 --> 00:08:15.880 align:middle line:90% That's what I'm doing. 00:08:15.880 --> 00:08:17.280 align:middle line:90% I don't have a lavish life. 00:08:17.280 --> 00:08:19.530 align:middle line:84% I mean, I don't really own things. 00:08:19.530 --> 00:08:21.540 align:middle line:84% I don't really have an apartment anymore, so-- 00:08:21.540 --> 00:08:25.880 align:middle line:90% 00:08:25.880 --> 00:08:27.350 align:middle line:90% another question over there? 00:08:27.350 --> 00:08:30.720 align:middle line:90% 00:08:30.720 --> 00:08:32.330 align:middle line:90% Thank you for reading. 00:08:32.330 --> 00:08:34.039 align:middle line:90% Thank you for listening. 00:08:34.039 --> 00:08:35.310 align:middle line:90% I have a question. 00:08:35.310 --> 00:08:37.970 align:middle line:90% 00:08:37.970 --> 00:08:38.510 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:08:38.510 --> 00:08:39.968 align:middle line:84% I would really love it if you would 00:08:39.968 --> 00:08:42.130 align:middle line:84% read "A little orange bag, believe it or not, 00:08:42.130 --> 00:08:44.890 align:middle line:90% can hold all that remains." 00:08:44.890 --> 00:08:47.690 align:middle line:84% OK, really, I mean, do you all mind hearing another poem? 00:08:47.690 --> 00:08:48.546 align:middle line:90% I don't know? 00:08:48.546 --> 00:08:49.974 align:middle line:90% Thank you so much. 00:08:49.974 --> 00:08:53.306 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:08:53.306 --> 00:08:55.210 align:middle line:90% 00:08:55.210 --> 00:08:59.090 align:middle line:90% OK so thank you for asking. 00:08:59.090 --> 00:09:01.900 align:middle line:84% So this was part of the color poems 00:09:01.900 --> 00:09:04.000 align:middle line:84% where I ate a single color food for day 00:09:04.000 --> 00:09:05.730 align:middle line:90% and would wear the color. 00:09:05.730 --> 00:09:06.610 align:middle line:90% First one was red. 00:09:06.610 --> 00:09:08.800 align:middle line:84% Red, orange, yellow, green, purple, white. 00:09:08.800 --> 00:09:10.460 align:middle line:90% I went through the spectrum. 00:09:10.460 --> 00:09:15.130 align:middle line:90% So this is the orange poem. 00:09:15.130 --> 00:09:19.840 align:middle line:84% "A little orange bag, believe it or not, can hold--" Oh. 00:09:19.840 --> 00:09:21.070 align:middle line:90% No, that's all right. 00:09:21.070 --> 00:09:22.330 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:09:22.330 --> 00:09:24.140 align:middle line:84% "A little orange bag, believe it or not, 00:09:24.140 --> 00:09:27.520 align:middle line:90% can hold all that remains. 00:09:27.520 --> 00:09:30.490 align:middle line:84% Written after eating only orange foods for a day while 00:09:30.490 --> 00:09:34.150 align:middle line:84% under the influence of an orange ladder drawn on my chest 00:09:34.150 --> 00:09:35.245 align:middle line:90% with magic marker. 00:09:35.245 --> 00:09:39.630 align:middle line:90% 00:09:39.630 --> 00:09:44.250 align:middle line:84% We kissed my singing radio like this and this, 00:09:44.250 --> 00:09:45.630 align:middle line:90% out of your eyes. 00:09:45.630 --> 00:09:48.720 align:middle line:84% Out of your eyes, I am certain the muscle of sorrow 00:09:48.720 --> 00:09:51.990 align:middle line:90% is finally overpowered. 00:09:51.990 --> 00:09:54.660 align:middle line:84% You cross the reflection, not my life. 00:09:54.660 --> 00:09:57.090 align:middle line:84% The angel of death is cottontail. 00:09:57.090 --> 00:10:00.800 align:middle line:90% Please stop the screaming. 00:10:00.800 --> 00:10:06.620 align:middle line:84% Like this mouse, this one soft trail under my bed. 00:10:06.620 --> 00:10:08.630 align:middle line:90% Tonight you appear again. 00:10:08.630 --> 00:10:12.230 align:middle line:84% I'm waking before walking into your open arms. 00:10:12.230 --> 00:10:14.330 align:middle line:90% So sick of the dead. 00:10:14.330 --> 00:10:16.670 align:middle line:90% So sick of the fucking dead. 00:10:16.670 --> 00:10:18.890 align:middle line:84% Run to the Mexican border of Canada. 00:10:18.890 --> 00:10:20.780 align:middle line:84% Run to the Mexican border of Iowa. 00:10:20.780 --> 00:10:24.500 align:middle line:84% Run to the Mexican border of my kitchen, four gas burners 00:10:24.500 --> 00:10:25.940 align:middle line:90% already lit. 00:10:25.940 --> 00:10:29.900 align:middle line:84% Coming on painkillers as the levitating over the ocean. 00:10:29.900 --> 00:10:33.080 align:middle line:84% Only those who never tried it disbelieve. 00:10:33.080 --> 00:10:35.660 align:middle line:84% Eventually you don't care who disbelieves, which 00:10:35.660 --> 00:10:37.880 align:middle line:90% is the point of painkillers. 00:10:37.880 --> 00:10:41.300 align:middle line:84% Suicide's not understood through the dictionary, 00:10:41.300 --> 00:10:43.980 align:middle line:90% only more than applesauce. 00:10:43.980 --> 00:10:46.870 align:middle line:90% 00:10:46.870 --> 00:10:50.530 align:middle line:84% And I'm scared of shitting orange, but it's inevitable. 00:10:50.530 --> 00:10:53.620 align:middle line:90% 00:10:53.620 --> 00:10:57.400 align:middle line:84% Catching piano wire here in the mouth, my mouth won't close. 00:10:57.400 --> 00:10:58.450 align:middle line:90% So sick of the shit. 00:10:58.450 --> 00:11:01.600 align:middle line:84% So sick of this crossed out heart. 00:11:01.600 --> 00:11:04.270 align:middle line:84% Yelling or singing, we're fucking and yelling, 00:11:04.270 --> 00:11:06.100 align:middle line:90% are reaching around the waist. 00:11:06.100 --> 00:11:09.070 align:middle line:84% I'm proud of your damp crotch in the cookie aisle, 00:11:09.070 --> 00:11:11.320 align:middle line:84% hungry from falling away from remembering 00:11:11.320 --> 00:11:14.350 align:middle line:90% we're a country at war. 00:11:14.350 --> 00:11:16.240 align:middle line:84% Is it time to become unreasonable? 00:11:16.240 --> 00:11:19.300 align:middle line:84% Yes, it's time to become unreasonable. 00:11:19.300 --> 00:11:22.930 align:middle line:84% Let's demand nutrient-rich bullets to nourish worms, 00:11:22.930 --> 00:11:28.480 align:middle line:84% made robust and prosperous on our endless American shame. 00:11:28.480 --> 00:11:31.660 align:middle line:84% The time has come for unreasonable. 00:11:31.660 --> 00:11:32.950 align:middle line:90% Fuck health care. 00:11:32.950 --> 00:11:37.240 align:middle line:84% Let's demand magic goldfish with therapeutic kisses. 00:11:37.240 --> 00:11:41.620 align:middle line:84% Cross out our own heart before they arrive. 00:11:41.620 --> 00:11:46.570 align:middle line:84% Yes, it is time we served unreasonable." 00:11:46.570 --> 00:11:48.420 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:11:48.420 --> 00:11:50.000 align:middle line:90%