WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.990 align:middle line:90%


00:00:00.990 --> 00:00:06.870 align:middle line:84%
And so part of the manuscript
that I'm working on actually--

00:00:06.870 --> 00:00:08.700 align:middle line:84%
so these are poems
about incarceration,

00:00:08.700 --> 00:00:10.890 align:middle line:84%
about being on the
inside and all that.

00:00:10.890 --> 00:00:13.050 align:middle line:90%
But I think I'm trying--

00:00:13.050 --> 00:00:15.930 align:middle line:84%
I want to bring a different
aspect, a perspective in terms

00:00:15.930 --> 00:00:18.050 align:middle line:84%
of being on the inside,
and being a poet,

00:00:18.050 --> 00:00:19.050 align:middle line:90%
and what does that mean?

00:00:19.050 --> 00:00:21.400 align:middle line:84%
Like you can imagine
outside of the world.

00:00:21.400 --> 00:00:25.770 align:middle line:84%
So there's a section in
here tentatively titled

00:00:25.770 --> 00:00:27.660 align:middle line:90%
like "Poet in Residence."

00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:31.000 align:middle line:90%
[LAUGHTER]

00:00:31.000 --> 00:00:31.500 align:middle line:90%


00:00:31.500 --> 00:00:33.540 align:middle line:90%
I'm just saying.

00:00:33.540 --> 00:00:36.495 align:middle line:84%
But the poet can
actually-- does things--

00:00:36.495 --> 00:00:42.160 align:middle line:84%
steps outside of these physical
barriers, as all poets do.

00:00:42.160 --> 00:00:44.433 align:middle line:84%
And so I think we
need-- that is-- so that

00:00:44.433 --> 00:00:45.600 align:middle line:90%
was kind of important to me.

00:00:45.600 --> 00:00:49.140 align:middle line:84%
Like, yeah, these poems
speak on this issue.

00:00:49.140 --> 00:00:52.950 align:middle line:84%
But as a poet, man, you can
talk about other things, too.

00:00:52.950 --> 00:00:55.252 align:middle line:90%
So, yeah.

00:00:55.252 --> 00:01:00.310 align:middle line:84%
"289-128, Poet in
Residence" "Cell 17,

00:01:00.310 --> 00:01:04.590 align:middle line:84%
old photograph of
winter taped to my wall.

00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:07.680 align:middle line:84%
Over my girl's winter
negative, cityscape pigeon shit

00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:11.460 align:middle line:84%
remains hidden behind
throngs of urban dwellers.

00:01:11.460 --> 00:01:14.250 align:middle line:84%
Perhaps these
humans daydream too

00:01:14.250 --> 00:01:16.890 align:middle line:90%
hard to speculate in a Polaroid.

00:01:16.890 --> 00:01:20.160 align:middle line:84%
Each random stiff and
objective unknown.

00:01:20.160 --> 00:01:21.570 align:middle line:90%
Are names important?

00:01:21.570 --> 00:01:22.770 align:middle line:90%
I think not.

00:01:22.770 --> 00:01:26.310 align:middle line:84%
I imagined the street
vendor on Broadway singing

00:01:26.310 --> 00:01:28.050 align:middle line:90%
into a Korean woman's ear.

00:01:28.050 --> 00:01:30.990 align:middle line:84%
It might rain today,
buy an umbrella.

00:01:30.990 --> 00:01:33.990 align:middle line:84%
Perpendicular to this
random act, two men

00:01:33.990 --> 00:01:37.440 align:middle line:84%
hug goodbye at the
metro rail forever.

00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:41.100 align:middle line:84%
Love withers without
sound amid pedestrians.

00:01:41.100 --> 00:01:46.230 align:middle line:84%
I can tell winter age fast
with each incoming season,

00:01:46.230 --> 00:01:48.420 align:middle line:84%
the greater
transformation noticeable.

00:01:48.420 --> 00:01:51.600 align:middle line:84%
And this municipal will
peak into a time gone.

00:01:51.600 --> 00:01:55.500 align:middle line:84%
The city once known,
unrecognizable."

00:01:55.500 --> 00:01:56.000 align:middle line:90%