WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.990 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.990 --> 00:00:05.550 align:middle line:84% And the last poem that I'm going to read to you 00:00:05.550 --> 00:00:11.040 align:middle line:84% is a short little poem called "The Ballad of Jane Roe." 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:15.990 align:middle line:84% And I was working on it for the last few weeks, 00:00:15.990 --> 00:00:20.160 align:middle line:84% and it was this long, narrative jumble. 00:00:20.160 --> 00:00:25.380 align:middle line:84% I was reading her very conflicted autobiographies 00:00:25.380 --> 00:00:27.660 align:middle line:84% and just wondering how I was going 00:00:27.660 --> 00:00:32.790 align:middle line:84% to put all the pieces of this story, her story, together, 00:00:32.790 --> 00:00:34.950 align:middle line:90% and writing this terrible poem. 00:00:34.950 --> 00:00:39.010 align:middle line:84% And then she died, you know Norma McCorvey, 00:00:39.010 --> 00:00:40.260 align:middle line:90% who talking about-- 00:00:40.260 --> 00:00:44.010 align:middle line:84% who we know as Jane Roe, and she died about a week 00:00:44.010 --> 00:00:44.940 align:middle line:90% and a half ago. 00:00:44.940 --> 00:00:48.570 align:middle line:84% And just, as I was working on this poem and really 00:00:48.570 --> 00:00:52.440 align:middle line:84% surprised me, and I was sad, and I sat down 00:00:52.440 --> 00:00:54.790 align:middle line:90% and I wrote this paragraph. 00:00:54.790 --> 00:00:58.920 align:middle line:84% So that poem is gone, and this is "The Ballad of Jane Roe." 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:03.490 align:middle line:90% 00:01:03.490 --> 00:01:05.540 align:middle line:90% I am a woman. 00:01:05.540 --> 00:01:07.580 align:middle line:90% I am not the law. 00:01:07.580 --> 00:01:08.820 align:middle line:90% I'm a woman. 00:01:08.820 --> 00:01:10.940 align:middle line:90% I am not the law. 00:01:10.940 --> 00:01:12.230 align:middle line:90% I'm a woman. 00:01:12.230 --> 00:01:15.230 align:middle line:90% I am a woman, a child. 00:01:15.230 --> 00:01:16.730 align:middle line:90% I'm not the law. 00:01:16.730 --> 00:01:20.420 align:middle line:90% I wanted a woman, a child. 00:01:20.420 --> 00:01:21.960 align:middle line:90% I wanted a child. 00:01:21.960 --> 00:01:22.460 align:middle line:90% A child. 00:01:22.460 --> 00:01:24.050 align:middle line:90% I wanted a child, a woman. 00:01:24.050 --> 00:01:25.160 align:middle line:90% I wasn't a woman. 00:01:25.160 --> 00:01:25.700 align:middle line:90% I wanted. 00:01:25.700 --> 00:01:26.300 align:middle line:90% I wasn't. 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:27.260 align:middle line:90% I wasn't wanted. 00:01:27.260 --> 00:01:28.100 align:middle line:90% I was a woman. 00:01:28.100 --> 00:01:29.780 align:middle line:90% I was the law. 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:30.650 align:middle line:90% No, not the law. 00:01:30.650 --> 00:01:31.190 align:middle line:90% A child. 00:01:31.190 --> 00:01:32.720 align:middle line:90% I am not the law. 00:01:32.720 --> 00:01:35.660 align:middle line:90% I am not, not, not, not wanted. 00:01:35.660 --> 00:01:36.770 align:middle line:90% I wasn't. 00:01:36.770 --> 00:01:38.180 align:middle line:90% I wasn't wanted. 00:01:38.180 --> 00:01:39.680 align:middle line:90% I wasn't wanting. 00:01:39.680 --> 00:01:41.870 align:middle line:90% I wasn't wanting a child. 00:01:41.870 --> 00:01:42.950 align:middle line:90% I am a woman. 00:01:42.950 --> 00:01:44.330 align:middle line:90% I am not the law. 00:01:44.330 --> 00:01:45.860 align:middle line:90% I am not the law. 00:01:45.860 --> 00:01:48.050 align:middle line:90% I am not not the law. 00:01:48.050 --> 00:01:50.750 align:middle line:90% I am child. 00:01:50.750 --> 00:01:52.250 align:middle line:90% I am woman. 00:01:52.250 --> 00:01:53.150 align:middle line:90% I am a woman. 00:01:53.150 --> 00:01:56.100 align:middle line:90% I am, not the law. 00:01:56.100 --> 00:01:58.770 align:middle line:90% Not the law. 00:01:58.770 --> 00:02:00.760 align:middle line:90% Thank you very much.