WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.990 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.990 --> 00:00:04.680 align:middle line:84% Many of my poems are quite long, so I 00:00:04.680 --> 00:00:07.877 align:middle line:84% want to make sure that Farid gets up here, because you're 00:00:07.877 --> 00:00:08.835 align:middle line:90% in for a treat tonight. 00:00:08.835 --> 00:00:14.530 align:middle line:90% 00:00:14.530 --> 00:00:16.942 align:middle line:90% So this next poem-- 00:00:16.942 --> 00:00:17.650 align:middle line:90% well, quite long. 00:00:17.650 --> 00:00:19.610 align:middle line:84% I'm only going to read an excerpt of it. 00:00:19.610 --> 00:00:22.720 align:middle line:84% It doesn't really have any questions or any commentary. 00:00:22.720 --> 00:00:24.100 align:middle line:90% It's just pure description. 00:00:24.100 --> 00:00:26.470 align:middle line:84% And the poem is written in couplets. 00:00:26.470 --> 00:00:27.940 align:middle line:90% It's really a list. 00:00:27.940 --> 00:00:29.860 align:middle line:84% And even though my obsession with this book 00:00:29.860 --> 00:00:32.710 align:middle line:84% was to ask a lot of questions, in this poem 00:00:32.710 --> 00:00:34.990 align:middle line:84% I think the questions are probably implicit. 00:00:34.990 --> 00:00:37.210 align:middle line:84% And they I hope that they say something 00:00:37.210 --> 00:00:41.200 align:middle line:84% about our assumptions and our prejudices. 00:00:41.200 --> 00:00:43.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:43.750 --> 00:00:45.610 align:middle line:90% It's called "66 Windows." 00:00:45.610 --> 00:00:48.550 align:middle line:90% 00:00:48.550 --> 00:00:51.370 align:middle line:84% "Woman with her hair held in a rough knot 00:00:51.370 --> 00:00:55.960 align:middle line:90% by a red twist mopping, age 29. 00:00:55.960 --> 00:00:58.690 align:middle line:84% Women with her hair held in a rough knot 00:00:58.690 --> 00:01:03.310 align:middle line:90% by a red twist mopping, age 56. 00:01:03.310 --> 00:01:07.690 align:middle line:84% Woman half-draped in a towel in a steamy bathroom, age 80. 00:01:07.690 --> 00:01:13.090 align:middle line:84% Women half-draped in a towel in a steamy bathroom, age 25. 00:01:13.090 --> 00:01:17.500 align:middle line:84% White female in police blotter, cropped hair, age 24, 00:01:17.500 --> 00:01:19.810 align:middle line:90% scratches on face. 00:01:19.810 --> 00:01:24.160 align:middle line:84% Black female in police blotter, cropped hair, age 24, 00:01:24.160 --> 00:01:26.920 align:middle line:90% scratches on face. 00:01:26.920 --> 00:01:31.060 align:middle line:84% Woman in a burqa at an embassy party in her 30s, 00:01:31.060 --> 00:01:35.650 align:middle line:84% in the arms of a woman in her 30s in military uniform. 00:01:35.650 --> 00:01:39.070 align:middle line:84% Applying mascara in bra and underpants in a brightly 00:01:39.070 --> 00:01:43.210 align:middle line:84% lit apartment before dressing for dinner, age 31. 00:01:43.210 --> 00:01:46.300 align:middle line:84% Applying mascara in bra and underpants in a brightly 00:01:46.300 --> 00:01:50.800 align:middle line:84% lit apartment before dressing for dinner, age 67. 00:01:50.800 --> 00:01:52.090 align:middle line:90% Begging, age 21. 00:01:52.090 --> 00:01:55.150 align:middle line:90% Begging, age 81. 00:01:55.150 --> 00:01:59.170 align:middle line:84% Woman in a cinched coat, age 24, jerking a white guy 00:01:59.170 --> 00:02:01.300 align:middle line:90% behind the old bakery. 00:02:01.300 --> 00:02:05.170 align:middle line:84% Woman in a cinched coat, age 44, jerking a white guy 00:02:05.170 --> 00:02:08.199 align:middle line:90% behind the old bakery. 00:02:08.199 --> 00:02:13.510 align:middle line:84% Man with downy hair, facial hair, in a sharp suit, age 40. 00:02:13.510 --> 00:02:18.580 align:middle line:84% Woman with downy hair, facial hair, in a sharp suit, age 40. 00:02:18.580 --> 00:02:20.530 align:middle line:90% Girl on crutches, 15. 00:02:20.530 --> 00:02:24.430 align:middle line:90% Woman on crutches, 85. 00:02:24.430 --> 00:02:27.730 align:middle line:84% Woman in a green nylon do-rag cleaning toilets 00:02:27.730 --> 00:02:31.420 align:middle line:84% in an empty baseball stadium, 22. 00:02:31.420 --> 00:02:35.200 align:middle line:90% Woman veiled in bare feet, 22. 00:02:35.200 --> 00:02:39.250 align:middle line:84% Woman and sunglasses and margarita, 22. 00:02:39.250 --> 00:02:42.550 align:middle line:84% Woman and sunglasses and margarita, 32. 00:02:42.550 --> 00:02:45.610 align:middle line:84% Woman and sunglasses and margarita, 42. 00:02:45.610 --> 00:02:48.010 align:middle line:84% Woman and sunglasses and margarita, 52. 00:02:48.010 --> 00:02:52.240 align:middle line:84% Woman and sunglasses and margarita, 62. 00:02:52.240 --> 00:02:56.260 align:middle line:84% Cook in a leather jacket, silk dress, and nose ring, 00:02:56.260 --> 00:03:00.280 align:middle line:84% at a butcher shop, Paris, age 28. 00:03:00.280 --> 00:03:03.850 align:middle line:84% Assistant professor in a leather jacket at a poetry reading, New 00:03:03.850 --> 00:03:06.580 align:middle line:90% York, age 28. 00:03:06.580 --> 00:03:10.660 align:middle line:84% Trust fund baby in a leather jacket at a cineplex, Tokyo, 00:03:10.660 --> 00:03:12.460 align:middle line:90% age 38. 00:03:12.460 --> 00:03:17.650 align:middle line:84% Bouncer in a leather jacket in a honky-tonk Austin, age 38. 00:03:17.650 --> 00:03:20.860 align:middle line:84% Undocumented immigrant in a leather jacket, Los Angeles 00:03:20.860 --> 00:03:24.040 align:middle line:90% International Airport, age 48. 00:03:24.040 --> 00:03:27.010 align:middle line:84% Friend in a leather jacket in a hospital emergency room, 00:03:27.010 --> 00:03:29.830 align:middle line:90% middle of nowhere, age 48. 00:03:29.830 --> 00:03:33.850 align:middle line:84% Widow in a leather jacket at a railway station, Amsterdam, 00:03:33.850 --> 00:03:35.860 align:middle line:90% age 58. 00:03:35.860 --> 00:03:41.500 align:middle line:84% Ex-convicts in a leather jacket in a snowstorm, Taos, age 58. 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:44.890 align:middle line:84% Black nude on white bedding in a high-rise apartment, 00:03:44.890 --> 00:03:47.170 align:middle line:90% age 36, reading. 00:03:47.170 --> 00:03:51.530 align:middle line:84% White nude on white bedding in a mid-century modern, age 66, 00:03:51.530 --> 00:03:52.030 align:middle line:90% writing." 00:03:52.030 --> 00:03:55.320 align:middle line:90% 00:03:55.320 --> 00:03:55.990 align:middle line:90% That last one. 00:03:55.990 --> 00:03:58.040 align:middle line:90% That would be me. 00:03:58.040 --> 00:03:59.000 align:middle line:90%