WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.960 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.960 --> 00:00:01.650 align:middle line:90% "On pain". 00:00:01.650 --> 00:00:05.260 align:middle line:90% 00:00:05.260 --> 00:00:09.550 align:middle line:84% "What do you hope to reach once disaster becomes merely 00:00:09.550 --> 00:00:15.190 align:middle line:84% drifting blood pressure dropping is a dream that fills 00:00:15.190 --> 00:00:19.450 align:middle line:84% the mind, the last one vowing it was always like this. 00:00:19.450 --> 00:00:24.190 align:middle line:84% The skin burned nothing, the scar even less. 00:00:24.190 --> 00:00:28.850 align:middle line:84% You want all the signs of danger exhausted and unheeded. 00:00:28.850 --> 00:00:31.960 align:middle line:84% The fire you feel, the inflammation 00:00:31.960 --> 00:00:37.090 align:middle line:84% of an enlarged appendix, a tumor pressing against one's skull. 00:00:37.090 --> 00:00:40.900 align:middle line:84% Coltrane holding his white side, his liver's cries 00:00:40.900 --> 00:00:42.430 align:middle line:90% muffled in vain. 00:00:42.430 --> 00:00:45.970 align:middle line:84% All that says beware, beware with gasp 00:00:45.970 --> 00:00:50.300 align:middle line:84% and swell in tongues of fire and blade. 00:00:50.300 --> 00:00:53.420 align:middle line:84% But when all warnings beyond calls, oh, 00:00:53.420 --> 00:00:58.100 align:middle line:84% how sweet, how do you know it's a system, a sister to thought, 00:00:58.100 --> 00:01:03.230 align:middle line:84% a kind of reckoning that rivets our air until it becomes 00:01:03.230 --> 00:01:09.200 align:middle line:84% the origin, the burning seed of time to come, the threat of it, 00:01:09.200 --> 00:01:14.210 align:middle line:84% the pulled fingernails, sodomy via broomstick all because 00:01:14.210 --> 00:01:18.470 align:middle line:84% of a premonition that heralds an end, an end the body 00:01:18.470 --> 00:01:21.230 align:middle line:84% will do anything to dodge, a certainty 00:01:21.230 --> 00:01:24.900 align:middle line:84% flaring in nerve endings in the yelping brain. 00:01:24.900 --> 00:01:29.360 align:middle line:84% The heart beating its caged animals, cowardice, i.e. 00:01:29.360 --> 00:01:32.870 align:middle line:84% fear, a sign of an overactive imagination, 00:01:32.870 --> 00:01:36.230 align:middle line:84% Hemingway says, that outstrips all notions 00:01:36.230 --> 00:01:38.280 align:middle line:90% of honor or integrity. 00:01:38.280 --> 00:01:39.980 align:middle line:90% You want to live in honor? 00:01:39.980 --> 00:01:42.360 align:middle line:90% Try these broken ribs. 00:01:42.360 --> 00:01:45.770 align:middle line:84% A grimace and your imagined children are starving. 00:01:45.770 --> 00:01:48.980 align:middle line:90% Honor, not to betray comrades. 00:01:48.980 --> 00:01:52.580 align:middle line:90% How do electrocuted testes feel? 00:01:52.580 --> 00:01:57.140 align:middle line:84% How rape, gang rape of you and yours before your eyes 00:01:57.140 --> 00:02:00.710 align:middle line:84% to choose survival among glare and char 00:02:00.710 --> 00:02:02.990 align:middle line:90% in the church of bow and debase. 00:02:02.990 --> 00:02:07.640 align:middle line:84% The greatest honor then the precious gift, 00:02:07.640 --> 00:02:12.680 align:middle line:84% no principle however glorious may justify the taking of. 00:02:12.680 --> 00:02:15.980 align:middle line:84% Does the body know no other mantra? 00:02:15.980 --> 00:02:21.940 align:middle line:84% Its suffering a mistaken law that prods each breath." 00:02:21.940 --> 00:02:23.000 align:middle line:90%