WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.080 align:middle line:90% 00:00:10.080 --> 00:00:13.470 align:middle line:84% So I'll conclude with a few pieces from a manuscript 00:00:13.470 --> 00:00:17.640 align:middle line:84% that I'm finishing up called Written After A Massacre 00:00:17.640 --> 00:00:20.170 align:middle line:90% in the year 2018. 00:00:20.170 --> 00:00:23.940 align:middle line:84% So I tried to write this book throughout the year 2018 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:26.140 align:middle line:84% and conclude it at the end of the year. 00:00:26.140 --> 00:00:32.610 align:middle line:90% 00:00:32.610 --> 00:00:34.767 align:middle line:84% And many of the poems in the piece are called-- 00:00:34.767 --> 00:00:36.850 align:middle line:84% in the book are called "Written After The Massacre 00:00:36.850 --> 00:00:38.180 align:middle line:90% In The Year 2018." 00:00:38.180 --> 00:00:39.060 align:middle line:90% This one is not. 00:00:39.060 --> 00:00:41.230 align:middle line:90% Wall. 00:00:41.230 --> 00:00:43.378 align:middle line:84% They built the wall because they need privacy. 00:00:43.378 --> 00:00:45.670 align:middle line:84% It is a curtain wall with a dead load, and a wind load, 00:00:45.670 --> 00:00:47.730 align:middle line:84% and a seismic load, and a blast load. 00:00:47.730 --> 00:00:50.350 align:middle line:84% It is a wall to help us find peace in a violent world. 00:00:50.350 --> 00:00:51.480 align:middle line:90% It is a wall of debt. 00:00:51.480 --> 00:00:52.750 align:middle line:90% It is a wall of accumulation. 00:00:52.750 --> 00:00:54.910 align:middle line:84% It's a private wall built with public funds. 00:00:54.910 --> 00:00:57.430 align:middle line:84% It is a sleeper wall with suspended slabs and floor 00:00:57.430 --> 00:00:58.180 align:middle line:90% joists. 00:00:58.180 --> 00:00:59.878 align:middle line:84% Poor kids are buried in the wall. 00:00:59.878 --> 00:01:01.420 align:middle line:84% When they trade bodies for petroleum, 00:01:01.420 --> 00:01:02.770 align:middle line:84% they slide them through the wall. 00:01:02.770 --> 00:01:04.270 align:middle line:84% When they trade bodies for vaccines, 00:01:04.270 --> 00:01:05.500 align:middle line:90% they slip them over the wall. 00:01:05.500 --> 00:01:07.208 align:middle line:84% When they trade bodies for state secrets, 00:01:07.208 --> 00:01:08.530 align:middle line:90% they dig them under the wall. 00:01:08.530 --> 00:01:10.662 align:middle line:84% I've been treated very unfairly by this wall. 00:01:10.662 --> 00:01:12.370 align:middle line:84% My mouth has gone missing near this wall. 00:01:12.370 --> 00:01:14.120 align:middle line:84% My teeth have gone missing near this wall. 00:01:14.120 --> 00:01:16.150 align:middle line:84% My body has disappeared into a brick in the wall 00:01:16.150 --> 00:01:17.735 align:middle line:90% they built around the wall. 00:01:17.735 --> 00:01:19.110 align:middle line:84% I meet a slaughterer at the wall. 00:01:19.110 --> 00:01:20.410 align:middle line:90% He is kind to me. 00:01:20.410 --> 00:01:22.120 align:middle line:84% He brings me water when I'm thirsty. 00:01:22.120 --> 00:01:23.740 align:middle line:84% He brings me food when I am hungry. 00:01:23.740 --> 00:01:25.720 align:middle line:84% He brings me something to kill when I'm lonely. 00:01:25.720 --> 00:01:27.678 align:middle line:84% He brings me something to love when I'm lonely. 00:01:27.678 --> 00:01:31.240 align:middle line:84% He brings me something empty when I need a moment to blink. 00:01:31.240 --> 00:01:32.980 align:middle line:84% There's an endless hole in the wall. 00:01:32.980 --> 00:01:34.450 align:middle line:90% I spit the wall out of my body. 00:01:34.450 --> 00:01:35.500 align:middle line:90% I hide in the wall. 00:01:35.500 --> 00:01:36.560 align:middle line:90% I become the wall. 00:01:36.560 --> 00:01:38.650 align:middle line:84% There is a murmuring ghost in the wall, 00:01:38.650 --> 00:01:40.900 align:middle line:84% the ghost of a refugee they shot against the wall. 00:01:40.900 --> 00:01:42.520 align:middle line:84% There's a foreign agent in the wall. 00:01:42.520 --> 00:01:44.400 align:middle line:84% There is an underdeveloped man in the wall. 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:46.368 align:middle line:84% There is an underdeveloped culture in the wall. 00:01:46.368 --> 00:01:48.160 align:middle line:84% There are cheap people who wear cheap shoes 00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:50.380 align:middle line:84% and cheap shirts made in cheap factories protected 00:01:50.380 --> 00:01:52.200 align:middle line:90% by a very exquisite wall. 00:01:52.200 --> 00:01:54.190 align:middle line:84% There is a device in the wall, a sensor 00:01:54.190 --> 00:01:57.100 align:middle line:84% to detect movement along the wall, or near the wall. 00:01:57.100 --> 00:01:59.500 align:middle line:84% There is news that comes out of the device in the wall. 00:01:59.500 --> 00:02:01.630 align:middle line:84% There are cannibals and pacifists in the wall. 00:02:01.630 --> 00:02:03.100 align:middle line:90% Their balls are to the wall. 00:02:03.100 --> 00:02:04.420 align:middle line:90% There's a fly on the wall . 00:02:04.420 --> 00:02:06.040 align:middle line:84% We bring our heads against the wall. 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:07.630 align:middle line:84% There's a brick structure that divides 00:02:07.630 --> 00:02:09.479 align:middle line:90% one property from another. 00:02:09.479 --> 00:02:10.600 align:middle line:90% Is a garden wall. 00:02:10.600 --> 00:02:11.740 align:middle line:90% Is a firewall. 00:02:11.740 --> 00:02:13.060 align:middle line:90% Is a consumption wall. 00:02:13.060 --> 00:02:15.460 align:middle line:84% It absorbs the excess bodies from the surrounding area 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:17.360 align:middle line:90% well also enclosing them. 00:02:17.360 --> 00:02:19.900 align:middle line:84% It is a wall that wears many hats. 00:02:19.900 --> 00:02:22.390 align:middle line:84% It is a climbing wall with gelatinous membrane 00:02:22.390 --> 00:02:24.230 align:middle line:90% along its outer cavity. 00:02:24.230 --> 00:02:25.727 align:middle line:90% They piss money up the wall. 00:02:25.727 --> 00:02:27.310 align:middle line:84% They know it's like jelly to the wall, 00:02:27.310 --> 00:02:29.140 align:middle line:84% and we dream of a wall of philanthropists 00:02:29.140 --> 00:02:30.790 align:middle line:90% with knives for eyes. 00:02:30.790 --> 00:02:32.710 align:middle line:84% The handwriting is on the wall, do not 00:02:32.710 --> 00:02:34.930 align:middle line:90% climb this electrified wall. 00:02:34.930 --> 00:02:37.720 align:middle line:84% We trade cards with bureaucrats slaughterers on the wall. 00:02:37.720 --> 00:02:39.070 align:middle line:90% They drive us up the wall. 00:02:39.070 --> 00:02:40.450 align:middle line:90% We break the fourth wall. 00:02:40.450 --> 00:02:41.890 align:middle line:90% We bounce off the wall. 00:02:41.890 --> 00:02:46.140 align:middle line:84% Is the strongest wall in the emptiest part of the valley. 00:02:46.140 --> 00:02:50.000 align:middle line:90%