All right, now that the happy ones are out of the way.
[LAUGHTER]
I was going to read another angry one,
but I'm getting tired of being angry.
We had dessert at dinner and it's starting to kick in.
There's a wonderful, wonderful typo
in the first edition of this.
A typo that changes the meaning of the poem
entirely and retroactively changes four or five poems.
Which I think is pretty cool, because the one place where
I didn't want to be funny.
So there are several landscapes in the book,
and they get darker and the conquerors
burn everything down and kill everything and then dig it up
and yell at it and bury it again and set everything on fire
and it's supposed to say, "We knocked
the heads off the statuary, deprive
the landmarks of any meaning, victory
swelling in the occupation.
History is painted by the winners.
Keep your paints wet.
Trust me, I have things to say."
And that's not what it says.
It says, "History is painted by the winners.
Keep your pants wet."
It says it.
That's what it says.
It says keep your pants wet.
Keep your pants wet.
Trust me, I have things to say.
You're welcome, hunt and peck typing.
All right.