WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.150 align:middle line:90%
"The Year of Mercy."

00:00:03.150 --> 00:00:06.480 align:middle line:84%
Michael Broder has been,
over the last couple

00:00:06.480 --> 00:00:13.860 align:middle line:84%
of years, been doing a
series of daily poems.

00:00:13.860 --> 00:00:17.220 align:middle line:84%
One was the HIV Here
and Now project.

00:00:17.220 --> 00:00:20.010 align:middle line:84%
And then he started
doing the aftermath.

00:00:20.010 --> 00:00:28.090 align:middle line:84%
So "The Year of Mercy"
was in the HIV one.

00:00:28.090 --> 00:00:32.350 align:middle line:84%
And this is, the Pope said,
in 2014, he said, this

00:00:32.350 --> 00:00:35.380 align:middle line:90%
was the year of your mercy.

00:00:35.380 --> 00:00:36.340 align:middle line:90%
"The Year of Mercy."

00:00:36.340 --> 00:00:40.210 align:middle line:84%
The news is swift and swift
swoops across our minds,

00:00:40.210 --> 00:00:42.670 align:middle line:84%
then loves until
the next disaster.

00:00:42.670 --> 00:00:47.050 align:middle line:84%
The spent storm excels timber,
cars, cradles, sodden food,

00:00:47.050 --> 00:00:48.730 align:middle line:90%
and sad sobbing people.

00:00:48.730 --> 00:00:52.711 align:middle line:84%
The Pope has declared
a year of mercy.

00:00:52.711 --> 00:00:53.950 align:middle line:90%
One year?

00:00:53.950 --> 00:00:55.570 align:middle line:90%
And then what?

00:00:55.570 --> 00:00:57.940 align:middle line:90%
A year of retribution?

00:00:57.940 --> 00:00:59.950 align:middle line:90%
Why not a decade?

00:00:59.950 --> 00:01:01.120 align:middle line:90%
A century?

00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:03.010 align:middle line:90%
Or a millennium of mercy?

00:01:03.010 --> 00:01:05.349 align:middle line:90%
Why not a year of pacificity?

00:01:05.349 --> 00:01:07.660 align:middle line:84%
A year of deep,
committed loving.

00:01:07.660 --> 00:01:11.260 align:middle line:84%
A year of tongue scrubbing
of the men and women

00:01:11.260 --> 00:01:14.170 align:middle line:84%
who grope us with
language as nasty

00:01:14.170 --> 00:01:17.230 align:middle line:90%
as their tender prodding hands.

00:01:17.230 --> 00:01:21.220 align:middle line:84%
The news twitters away silence
and opens hearts to failure

00:01:21.220 --> 00:01:26.290 align:middle line:84%
or the possibility of evolution
in manners and morals, even

00:01:26.290 --> 00:01:31.420 align:middle line:84%
unto that dream of equality,
the one slaves understood

00:01:31.420 --> 00:01:36.690 align:middle line:84%
could not be a dream,
but had to be a reality.

00:01:36.690 --> 00:01:39.000 align:middle line:90%