WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.830 align:middle line:90%


00:00:01.830 --> 00:00:04.500 align:middle line:84%
I know-- I just
realized that there

00:00:04.500 --> 00:00:06.630 align:middle line:84%
have been bees in two
poems, and now there's

00:00:06.630 --> 00:00:08.730 align:middle line:90%
going to be bees again.

00:00:08.730 --> 00:00:10.950 align:middle line:90%
Sorry.

00:00:10.950 --> 00:00:12.870 align:middle line:84%
I've developed a new
relationship with bees.

00:00:12.870 --> 00:00:14.245 align:middle line:84%
I used to be very
afraid of them.

00:00:14.245 --> 00:00:15.990 align:middle line:84%
I'm apparently very
allergic to them.

00:00:15.990 --> 00:00:21.930 align:middle line:84%
But I realized to go among
the danger and be at ease

00:00:21.930 --> 00:00:22.968 align:middle line:90%
is maybe the way.

00:00:22.968 --> 00:00:23.760 align:middle line:90%
So now I like them.

00:00:23.760 --> 00:00:26.380 align:middle line:90%


00:00:26.380 --> 00:00:30.360 align:middle line:84%
But I've still yet to be stung,
so we'll see what happens.

00:00:30.360 --> 00:00:32.100 align:middle line:84%
And this title, "If
It Must Be Winter,"

00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:34.170 align:middle line:84%
is actually a line from
a Linda Gregg poem.

00:00:34.170 --> 00:00:37.050 align:middle line:90%


00:00:37.050 --> 00:00:38.807 align:middle line:90%
Just to acknowledge that.

00:00:38.807 --> 00:00:39.765 align:middle line:90%
"If It Must Be Winter."

00:00:39.765 --> 00:00:42.510 align:middle line:90%


00:00:42.510 --> 00:00:44.430 align:middle line:90%
Not crowns.

00:00:44.430 --> 00:00:47.280 align:middle line:84%
Not conquest defined
in terms of how many

00:00:47.280 --> 00:00:51.090 align:middle line:84%
fear you or fear
to say otherwise.

00:00:51.090 --> 00:00:56.820 align:middle line:84%
Not by these will your own
royalty, but in smaller ways.

00:00:56.820 --> 00:01:00.630 align:middle line:84%
How, to the least gesture,
there's more power than it

00:01:00.630 --> 00:01:02.310 align:middle line:90%
seems reasonable.

00:01:02.310 --> 00:01:07.500 align:middle line:84%
Though it will feel
deserved, so I was told,

00:01:07.500 --> 00:01:10.320 align:middle line:90%
and they have not proved wrong.

00:01:10.320 --> 00:01:12.790 align:middle line:90%
I've but to open my hand.

00:01:12.790 --> 00:01:14.820 align:middle line:90%
Bees come to it.

00:01:14.820 --> 00:01:20.040 align:middle line:84%
The slick fur of bees assembling
as toward an honor in no way

00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:21.210 align:middle line:90%
expected.

00:01:21.210 --> 00:01:24.240 align:middle line:84%
Though each time, the
honor remains mine,

00:01:24.240 --> 00:01:26.910 align:middle line:90%
as if almost it should.

00:01:26.910 --> 00:01:31.440 align:middle line:84%
As if certain privileges
had to do with destiny.

00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:33.990 align:middle line:90%
Do I believe that?

00:01:33.990 --> 00:01:36.870 align:middle line:90%
Do I?

00:01:36.870 --> 00:01:40.380 align:middle line:84%
My hand a sea across which
the wings of the bees

00:01:40.380 --> 00:01:43.920 align:middle line:84%
flash, like signal flags
whose patterns, instead

00:01:43.920 --> 00:01:48.480 align:middle line:84%
of translating, I make up
my own translations for.

00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:50.910 align:middle line:90%
I shall do as I please.

00:01:50.910 --> 00:01:53.610 align:middle line:84%
As a lovely argument can
make a difficult truth

00:01:53.610 --> 00:01:56.610 align:middle line:90%
more clear, if not more sweet.

00:01:56.610 --> 00:02:00.360 align:middle line:84%
Though, is there not a sweetness
to clarity that can almost

00:02:00.360 --> 00:02:03.710 align:middle line:90%
make the truth seem worth it?

00:02:03.710 --> 00:02:08.810 align:middle line:84%
To say I'm not quite sure
makes me no less king here.

00:02:08.810 --> 00:02:14.000 align:middle line:84%
Sometimes I open my hand,
and there's no sea at all.

00:02:14.000 --> 00:02:16.040 align:middle line:90%
Just a windy plain.

00:02:16.040 --> 00:02:19.670 align:middle line:84%
What appear to be dust
storms crossing it turn out,

00:02:19.670 --> 00:02:22.880 align:middle line:84%
on reaching me, to be
the disappointments.

00:02:22.880 --> 00:02:26.150 align:middle line:84%
All of them that
I never intended,

00:02:26.150 --> 00:02:28.400 align:middle line:90%
each one on horseback.

00:02:28.400 --> 00:02:30.020 align:middle line:90%
My cavalry.

00:02:30.020 --> 00:02:35.030 align:middle line:84%
Each face raised toward
mine, as if awaiting command.

00:02:35.030 --> 00:02:37.070 align:middle line:90%
Hungering for it.

00:02:37.070 --> 00:02:43.610 align:middle line:84%
Forgetful or stupid, I
can see no difference.

00:02:43.610 --> 00:02:46.040 align:middle line:90%
Look away from me.

00:02:46.040 --> 00:02:47.510 align:middle line:84%
I haven't said you
can look at me.

00:02:47.510 --> 00:02:51.520 align:middle line:90%


00:02:51.520 --> 00:02:53.950 align:middle line:84%
That's what you say
to disappointment.

00:02:53.950 --> 00:02:55.240 align:middle line:90%
Look away.

00:02:55.240 --> 00:02:56.890 align:middle line:90%
It's like what you say to death.

00:02:56.890 --> 00:02:58.667 align:middle line:90%
Not today.

00:02:58.667 --> 00:02:59.500 align:middle line:90%
That's what you say.

00:02:59.500 --> 00:03:02.440 align:middle line:84%
I learned that on
Game of Thrones.

00:03:02.440 --> 00:03:06.790 align:middle line:84%
That's what the sword
master told Arya.

00:03:06.790 --> 00:03:08.020 align:middle line:90%
He did.

00:03:08.020 --> 00:03:09.270 align:middle line:90%
[INAUDIBLE]