WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.200 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.200 --> 00:00:05.310 align:middle line:84% I want to read this one from the time I knew personally 00:00:05.310 --> 00:00:07.020 align:middle line:90% Roberto out in San Francisco. 00:00:07.020 --> 00:00:11.040 align:middle line:84% This is "A Mistranslation of Mayakovsky." 00:00:11.040 --> 00:00:16.470 align:middle line:84% "You too, meow oaooo, cactus flower, deepening little river. 00:00:16.470 --> 00:00:19.770 align:middle line:84% Chant beat on my back a veil of hair. 00:00:19.770 --> 00:00:24.060 align:middle line:84% Arch fish rabbit like strokes, carnivorous animal eyes, 00:00:24.060 --> 00:00:25.890 align:middle line:90% your nipples at dusk. 00:00:25.890 --> 00:00:29.190 align:middle line:84% Arch three times but numbers collide, even vowels 00:00:29.190 --> 00:00:34.500 align:middle line:84% tend to dissolve rubbing all I am: untranslatable cat weight. 00:00:34.500 --> 00:00:37.170 align:middle line:90% 00:00:37.170 --> 00:00:41.370 align:middle line:84% I pledge allergy to the flail of the United States of amigo, 00:00:41.370 --> 00:00:43.750 align:middle line:84% and to the reputation for which it stands, 00:00:43.750 --> 00:00:46.140 align:middle line:84% one National Park under godmother, 00:00:46.140 --> 00:00:48.660 align:middle line:84% indivisible, with library science and juvenile 00:00:48.660 --> 00:00:50.790 align:middle line:90% court for allegiance. 00:00:50.790 --> 00:00:53.310 align:middle line:84% I pledge allegory to the flagellant of the United 00:00:53.310 --> 00:00:56.550 align:middle line:84% Statistic of Ammunition, and to the reproduction for which it 00:00:56.550 --> 00:00:59.490 align:middle line:84% stands, one naughtiness, under good, 00:00:59.490 --> 00:01:03.960 align:middle line:84% indivisible, with lick and juvenile for anatomy. 00:01:03.960 --> 00:01:07.050 align:middle line:84% I pledge allelomorph to the flagelliform of the United 00:01:07.050 --> 00:01:09.240 align:middle line:84% State of the Art of American English, 00:01:09.240 --> 00:01:11.590 align:middle line:84% and to the repudiation for which it stands, 00:01:11.590 --> 00:01:13.710 align:middle line:84% one nationalism, under go-getter, 00:01:13.710 --> 00:01:16.110 align:middle line:84% indivisible, with library science and juvenile 00:01:16.110 --> 00:01:18.300 align:middle line:90% court for Alleluia. 00:01:18.300 --> 00:01:22.080 align:middle line:84% On my hop, I will try to serve godmother, my coup de grace, 00:01:22.080 --> 00:01:25.380 align:middle line:84% and to live by the give and take scramble lawn. 00:01:25.380 --> 00:01:29.040 align:middle line:84% On my hoodlum, I will try to serve goose, my coupon, 00:01:29.040 --> 00:01:33.600 align:middle line:84% and to live by the gladioli scrap heap laxative. 00:01:33.600 --> 00:01:36.180 align:middle line:84% On my honors of war, I will try to serve 00:01:36.180 --> 00:01:40.320 align:middle line:84% go go dance, my country music, and to live by the gizmos scowl 00:01:40.320 --> 00:01:41.400 align:middle line:90% lawyer." 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:43.400 align:middle line:90% Thank you for laughing. 00:01:43.400 --> 00:01:44.000 align:middle line:90%