WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:04.140 align:middle line:84% "Poem Convincing You to Leave Your Wife." 00:00:04.140 --> 00:00:08.430 align:middle line:84% "Hey you, you of unbuttoned flannel shirt and untold charm, 00:00:08.430 --> 00:00:13.920 align:middle line:84% if you hear her, that Rosenberg has had painted a new painting, 00:00:13.920 --> 00:00:16.140 align:middle line:84% the wisest thing to do is to be dropped-- 00:00:16.140 --> 00:00:19.020 align:middle line:84% to drop everything you are doing and manage 00:00:19.020 --> 00:00:21.570 align:middle line:90% one way or another to see it. 00:00:21.570 --> 00:00:25.800 align:middle line:84% No, have you dare you seen seen it? 00:00:25.800 --> 00:00:29.790 align:middle line:84% As I was going to St. Ives, I met a man with seven wives. 00:00:29.790 --> 00:00:32.280 align:middle line:90% Every wife had seven faults. 00:00:32.280 --> 00:00:34.830 align:middle line:90% Every fault had seven bolts. 00:00:34.830 --> 00:00:37.470 align:middle line:90% Every bolt had seven tries. 00:00:37.470 --> 00:00:42.840 align:middle line:84% Bolts, faults, tries, wives, how many are going to save lives? 00:00:42.840 --> 00:00:46.860 align:middle line:84% Duck is duck and fuck is I'm afraid, fuck. 00:00:46.860 --> 00:00:49.170 align:middle line:84% It is you that I miss, that I want. 00:00:49.170 --> 00:00:53.610 align:middle line:84% I espouse that you come here and miss me too now, 00:00:53.610 --> 00:00:58.650 align:middle line:84% now as in how much to do between now and 6:00. 00:00:58.650 --> 00:01:03.120 align:middle line:84% Where or where on this moonlit and dream visited planet 00:01:03.120 --> 00:01:04.050 align:middle line:90% are you? 00:01:04.050 --> 00:01:05.340 align:middle line:90% Are you willing? 00:01:05.340 --> 00:01:06.540 align:middle line:90% Are you well? 00:01:06.540 --> 00:01:07.680 align:middle line:90% Are you sick? 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:10.110 align:middle line:90% I'm sick of love, nar, nar. 00:01:10.110 --> 00:01:15.060 align:middle line:84% This is just to say lover, it's over and it's not. 00:01:15.060 --> 00:01:17.640 align:middle line:84% Oh, Lizzie dearest, here's letter within letter. 00:01:17.640 --> 00:01:21.450 align:middle line:84% I have met with your old flame and become unsettled about I, 00:01:21.450 --> 00:01:24.000 align:middle line:90% me, mine, mien, meow. 00:01:24.000 --> 00:01:25.230 align:middle line:90% Who is to blame? 00:01:25.230 --> 00:01:26.910 align:middle line:84% He thinks of you monthly and would like 00:01:26.910 --> 00:01:28.600 align:middle line:90% to meet and fuck biannually. 00:01:28.600 --> 00:01:31.830 align:middle line:84% He has had a vasectomy and sex with other men. 00:01:31.830 --> 00:01:33.270 align:middle line:90% Are you game? 00:01:33.270 --> 00:01:36.450 align:middle line:84% Funny what we harbor when we do, and where, 00:01:36.450 --> 00:01:41.430 align:middle line:84% and how, how long, how low, below, below. 00:01:41.430 --> 00:01:44.190 align:middle line:84% But an excellent driver stoned, I 00:01:44.190 --> 00:01:47.520 align:middle line:84% have decided that we do not want other people's wives 00:01:47.520 --> 00:01:50.970 align:middle line:84% as husbands as we do not want our own, 00:01:50.970 --> 00:01:53.400 align:middle line:90% as we do not want our own. 00:01:53.400 --> 00:01:59.100 align:middle line:84% I cannot live with you because that would be, is life. 00:01:59.100 --> 00:02:04.860 align:middle line:84% Oh, Liz, twix impunity and impurity lie I and lies my art, 00:02:04.860 --> 00:02:09.570 align:middle line:84% so I will do as I am told, love your neighbor as yourself, 00:02:09.570 --> 00:02:13.110 align:middle line:84% put your cup upon the shelf as the kindly sexton 00:02:13.110 --> 00:02:17.670 align:middle line:84% for some kinky sex on the slide, and on the slide, on the fence, 00:02:17.670 --> 00:02:19.590 align:middle line:90% if you're brave enough to try. 00:02:19.590 --> 00:02:24.630 align:middle line:84% For listen up, no concrete test of what is really true 00:02:24.630 --> 00:02:26.310 align:middle line:90% has ever been agreed upon. 00:02:26.310 --> 00:02:28.320 align:middle line:90% For some make the criteria-- 00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:31.530 align:middle line:84% the criterion external to the moment of perception, 00:02:31.530 --> 00:02:35.220 align:middle line:84% putting it either in Revelation, the consensus gentium, 00:02:35.220 --> 00:02:37.500 align:middle line:84% the instinct of the heart, aye, there's 00:02:37.500 --> 00:02:40.950 align:middle line:84% the rub, or systematized experience of the race, 00:02:40.950 --> 00:02:42.750 align:middle line:90% three men in a tub. 00:02:42.750 --> 00:02:45.870 align:middle line:84% Others make the perceptive moment its own test. 00:02:45.870 --> 00:02:47.070 align:middle line:90% Use common sense. 00:02:47.070 --> 00:02:47.730 align:middle line:90% A la reid. 00:02:47.730 --> 00:02:48.940 align:middle line:90% Use synthetic judgment. 00:02:48.940 --> 00:02:49.830 align:middle line:90% A priori. 00:02:49.830 --> 00:02:51.450 align:middle line:90% Kant not cunt. 00:02:51.450 --> 00:02:53.800 align:middle line:84% The unsuitability of the opposite, 00:02:53.800 --> 00:02:55.410 align:middle line:90% but I was never into that. 00:02:55.410 --> 00:02:58.860 align:middle line:84% The capacity to be fit-- be verified by sense. 00:02:58.860 --> 00:03:01.860 align:middle line:84% Now, now, now that, the possession 00:03:01.860 --> 00:03:05.520 align:middle line:84% of complete organic unity or self-relation, 00:03:05.520 --> 00:03:08.640 align:middle line:84% realize when a thing is its own other. 00:03:08.640 --> 00:03:13.230 align:middle line:84% Oh, brother, I long to be realized like that. 00:03:13.230 --> 00:03:14.490 align:middle line:90% Back to you. 00:03:14.490 --> 00:03:16.710 align:middle line:90% Will you come and realize me? 00:03:16.710 --> 00:03:17.630 align:middle line:90% Would you? 00:03:17.630 --> 00:03:22.770 align:middle line:84% Could you be my other now and for a short time 00:03:22.770 --> 00:03:28.110 align:middle line:84% like between 6:00 and 9:00, 9:00 and 6:00? 00:03:28.110 --> 00:03:32.520 align:middle line:84% We may have acquired it by fair means or by foul. 00:03:32.520 --> 00:03:37.470 align:middle line:84% Passion may have whispered it or accident suggested it. 00:03:37.470 --> 00:03:39.660 align:middle line:84% But if the total drift of thinking 00:03:39.660 --> 00:03:45.750 align:middle line:84% continues to confirm it, that is what she, he, we means by true. 00:03:45.750 --> 00:03:48.750 align:middle line:84% I renamed it and it remained and I 00:03:48.750 --> 00:03:52.080 align:middle line:84% remain yours, the wife that strayed 00:03:52.080 --> 00:03:54.660 align:middle line:90% and the wife that lefted, oh. 00:03:54.660 --> 00:03:59.130 align:middle line:84% Skirts, traps, wraps, thighs, we had stayed up 00:03:59.130 --> 00:04:01.350 align:middle line:84% all night, my friends and I. Sing, 00:04:01.350 --> 00:04:05.700 align:middle line:84% sing, leave gotta, leave your husband, leave your wife. 00:04:05.700 --> 00:04:07.950 align:middle line:84% But Augie, not you, you do not ever leave 00:04:07.950 --> 00:04:09.990 align:middle line:90% your dear old twisted mama. 00:04:09.990 --> 00:04:12.990 align:middle line:84% For if we leave, it is is for now, 00:04:12.990 --> 00:04:17.880 align:middle line:84% forever, you will remain cult and I poor I lost cunt. 00:04:17.880 --> 00:04:20.430 align:middle line:90% Yours, love, oh. 00:04:20.430 --> 00:04:22.290 align:middle line:90% Yours so. 00:04:22.290 --> 00:04:26.070 align:middle line:84% Oh, to make the air turn glue and rubber. 00:04:26.070 --> 00:04:28.560 align:middle line:90% Science says what exists. 00:04:28.560 --> 00:04:29.790 align:middle line:90% It's like a list. 00:04:29.790 --> 00:04:33.840 align:middle line:84% But to compare the words of both what exists and what does not, 00:04:33.840 --> 00:04:36.180 align:middle line:84% what thou wast and what thou art, 00:04:36.180 --> 00:04:38.887 align:middle line:84% we must consult not science, but what Pascal 00:04:38.887 --> 00:04:44.408 align:middle line:84% calls ya our le lay mine, my old lazy heart." 00:04:44.408 --> 00:04:46.950 align:middle line:84% And then there's a little French thing that I refuse to read. 00:04:46.950 --> 00:04:49.710 align:middle line:84% And then in parentheses it says, "(shut up), 00:04:49.710 --> 00:04:54.870 align:middle line:84% my heart is cool and blank, is fool and black. 00:04:54.870 --> 00:04:58.770 align:middle line:84% Nevertheless, nevertheless, I remain the wife that stayed 00:04:58.770 --> 00:05:02.330 align:middle line:84% and the wife that left, the wife that laughed, 00:05:02.330 --> 00:05:04.070 align:middle line:90% and the wife that slayed. 00:05:04.070 --> 00:05:08.480 align:middle line:84% Riffs, miffs, thoughts, knives, what exists 00:05:08.480 --> 00:05:15.380 align:middle line:84% and what alas does not, what I wast and what I art not. 00:05:15.380 --> 00:05:19.010 align:middle line:90% Word is and word was unheard of. 00:05:19.010 --> 00:05:21.890 align:middle line:84% Rauschenberg has painted a new painting. 00:05:21.890 --> 00:05:23.240 align:middle line:90% I dare not. 00:05:23.240 --> 00:05:26.900 align:middle line:90% Meet me there, go." 00:05:26.900 --> 00:05:30.080 align:middle line:84% Well, when I was concocting this little exercise, 00:05:30.080 --> 00:05:33.072 align:middle line:84% I never got to step 2, what is actually the difference, 00:05:33.072 --> 00:05:35.030 align:middle line:84% but I can tell you right now the first ones are 00:05:35.030 --> 00:05:36.200 align:middle line:90% a lot easier to read. 00:05:36.200 --> 00:05:38.050 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER]