WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.750 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.750 --> 00:00:01.250 align:middle line:90% Thanks. 00:00:01.250 --> 00:00:03.410 align:middle line:84% I wanted to read one point from that. 00:00:03.410 --> 00:00:04.550 align:middle line:90% It's about Bellows. 00:00:04.550 --> 00:00:06.050 align:middle line:90% Do you remember Bellows Beach. 00:00:06.050 --> 00:00:08.198 align:middle line:90% It's a beach that has actually-- 00:00:08.198 --> 00:00:09.740 align:middle line:84% you can only go there on the weekends 00:00:09.740 --> 00:00:12.573 align:middle line:84% because it's occupied by the military in Hawaii. 00:00:12.573 --> 00:00:14.240 align:middle line:84% It's the only thing I was going to read. 00:00:14.240 --> 00:00:16.309 align:middle line:84% I lived in Hawaii for many years. 00:00:16.309 --> 00:00:20.870 align:middle line:84% And I felt like I needed to give homage to-- because it was also 00:00:20.870 --> 00:00:23.570 align:middle line:84% part of what helped me to really think about nature and culture 00:00:23.570 --> 00:00:26.330 align:middle line:90% issues in different ways. 00:00:26.330 --> 00:00:27.770 align:middle line:90% But I'm super happy to be here. 00:00:27.770 --> 00:00:28.573 align:middle line:90% And thank you. 00:00:28.573 --> 00:00:29.240 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Gail. 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:30.073 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Jonathan. 00:00:30.073 --> 00:00:32.630 align:middle line:84% It's been wonderful having a discussion over the last month 00:00:32.630 --> 00:00:33.380 align:middle line:90% with you. 00:00:33.380 --> 00:00:35.930 align:middle line:84% It's a really great way to have this exchange. 00:00:35.930 --> 00:00:38.030 align:middle line:84% I hope you do that with more writers. 00:00:38.030 --> 00:00:41.460 align:middle line:84% It's been a really wonderful experience. 00:00:41.460 --> 00:00:42.860 align:middle line:90% And I love Tucson. 00:00:42.860 --> 00:00:43.650 align:middle line:90% So I'm very glad. 00:00:43.650 --> 00:00:44.810 align:middle line:84% In fact when Laynie was moving here, 00:00:44.810 --> 00:00:46.040 align:middle line:90% I was, like, you're so lucky. 00:00:46.040 --> 00:00:46.970 align:middle line:90% You get to move there. 00:00:46.970 --> 00:00:48.890 align:middle line:90% It's so beautiful. 00:00:48.890 --> 00:00:55.530 align:middle line:84% And I just got a tour of the amazing center, which is also-- 00:00:55.530 --> 00:00:58.620 align:middle line:84% now, I think it's national exceptional. 00:00:58.620 --> 00:01:01.250 align:middle line:84% I'm really interested when state universities actually take up 00:01:01.250 --> 00:01:03.950 align:middle line:84% to give something back to the community and something that 00:01:03.950 --> 00:01:07.370 align:middle line:84% kind of has a mandate to both serve the university community 00:01:07.370 --> 00:01:08.870 align:middle line:84% but to bring other people in and it 00:01:08.870 --> 00:01:10.120 align:middle line:90% doesn't happen all that often. 00:01:10.120 --> 00:01:12.690 align:middle line:90% 00:01:12.690 --> 00:01:15.840 align:middle line:84% I'm sure you guys all know that better than me. 00:01:15.840 --> 00:01:19.320 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read two pieces, one 00:01:19.320 --> 00:01:21.780 align:middle line:84% that I think might be more traditionally fitting 00:01:21.780 --> 00:01:27.990 align:middle line:84% the themes of the series and one that, perhaps 00:01:27.990 --> 00:01:29.880 align:middle line:84% less traditionally, but also I think still-- 00:01:29.880 --> 00:01:30.570 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:01:30.570 --> 00:01:32.852 align:middle line:90% 00:01:32.852 --> 00:01:34.560 align:middle line:84% I'll talk about it in a few more minutes. 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:36.540 align:middle line:84% But the one that I feel more traditionally 00:01:36.540 --> 00:01:38.310 align:middle line:84% fits is this poem that I wrote called "Gentle Now, 00:01:38.310 --> 00:01:39.310 align:middle line:90% Don't Add to Heartache." 00:01:39.310 --> 00:01:40.500 align:middle line:90% And it's about-- 00:01:40.500 --> 00:01:44.945 align:middle line:84% I'm from this town called Chillicothe in Southern Ohio. 00:01:44.945 --> 00:01:46.320 align:middle line:84% I moved to Hawaii and I was like, 00:01:46.320 --> 00:01:48.030 align:middle line:84% oh, I was writing a lot about Hawaii. 00:01:48.030 --> 00:01:52.170 align:middle line:84% And I was interested in what I would write about Hawaii. 00:01:52.170 --> 00:01:54.420 align:middle line:84% Chillicothe is one of those towns that 00:01:54.420 --> 00:01:56.190 align:middle line:90% has a lot of prisons in it. 00:01:56.190 --> 00:01:59.670 align:middle line:90% It had a big paper industry. 00:01:59.670 --> 00:02:02.280 align:middle line:84% Paper industries don't exist in the United States. 00:02:02.280 --> 00:02:04.230 align:middle line:84% I mean, it still exists, but it's not 00:02:04.230 --> 00:02:07.710 align:middle line:84% the same kind of economic shape the way 00:02:07.710 --> 00:02:09.389 align:middle line:84% it had shaped the town economically 00:02:09.389 --> 00:02:11.760 align:middle line:84% for so long in many ways for the worse 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:13.470 align:middle line:90% because paper is very dirty. 00:02:13.470 --> 00:02:16.500 align:middle line:84% But most of that industry has moved south. 00:02:16.500 --> 00:02:18.780 align:middle line:84% And so Chillicothe replaced that with prisons. 00:02:18.780 --> 00:02:21.690 align:middle line:84% And it has four prisons, including the jails, so three 00:02:21.690 --> 00:02:22.770 align:middle line:90% prisons and a jail. 00:02:22.770 --> 00:02:24.210 align:middle line:90% And it bids on them. 00:02:24.210 --> 00:02:27.010 align:middle line:84% The northern, richer part of the state never wants them. 00:02:27.010 --> 00:02:29.010 align:middle line:84% And so Chillicothe is always trying to get them. 00:02:29.010 --> 00:02:31.427 align:middle line:84% And it's one of those towns that has more people in prison 00:02:31.427 --> 00:02:32.190 align:middle line:90% than residents. 00:02:32.190 --> 00:02:33.870 align:middle line:84% And I kept wanting to write about it. 00:02:33.870 --> 00:02:34.742 align:middle line:90% And then I couldn't. 00:02:34.742 --> 00:02:37.200 align:middle line:84% And I think it was part of it because I haven't lived there 00:02:37.200 --> 00:02:41.460 align:middle line:84% since this transformation into a prison industrial complex town 00:02:41.460 --> 00:02:42.390 align:middle line:90% had happened. 00:02:42.390 --> 00:02:46.020 align:middle line:84% And this is a long story to get to why 00:02:46.020 --> 00:02:49.950 align:middle line:84% I was writing this poem, in some way, which I was still trying 00:02:49.950 --> 00:02:52.710 align:middle line:84% to think about what was happening 00:02:52.710 --> 00:02:55.990 align:middle line:84% in that place in some way or what it meant. 00:02:55.990 --> 00:02:58.740 align:middle line:84% So, "Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache." 00:02:58.740 --> 00:03:00.570 align:middle line:90% "One. 00:03:00.570 --> 00:03:02.250 align:middle line:90% We come into the world. 00:03:02.250 --> 00:03:04.200 align:middle line:84% We come into the world and there it is. 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:05.430 align:middle line:90% The sun is there. 00:03:05.430 --> 00:03:07.980 align:middle line:84% The brown of the river leading to the blue and the brown 00:03:07.980 --> 00:03:09.270 align:middle line:90% of the ocean is there. 00:03:09.270 --> 00:03:11.670 align:middle line:84% Salmon and eels are there moving between the brown 00:03:11.670 --> 00:03:13.138 align:middle line:90% and the brown and the blue. 00:03:13.138 --> 00:03:14.430 align:middle line:90% The green of the land is there. 00:03:14.430 --> 00:03:15.680 align:middle line:90% Elders and youngers are there. 00:03:15.680 --> 00:03:18.090 align:middle line:84% Fighting and possibility and love are there. 00:03:18.090 --> 00:03:19.675 align:middle line:90% And we begin to breathe. 00:03:19.675 --> 00:03:21.300 align:middle line:84% We come into the world and there it is. 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:23.467 align:middle line:84% We come into the world without and we breathe it in. 00:03:23.467 --> 00:03:24.810 align:middle line:90% We come into the world. 00:03:24.810 --> 00:03:25.890 align:middle line:90% We come into the world. 00:03:25.890 --> 00:03:28.410 align:middle line:84% And we too begin to move between the brown and the blue 00:03:28.410 --> 00:03:30.720 align:middle line:90% and the green of it. 00:03:30.720 --> 00:03:31.890 align:middle line:90% Two. 00:03:31.890 --> 00:03:33.960 align:middle line:84% We came into the world at the edge of a stream. 00:03:33.960 --> 00:03:36.420 align:middle line:84% The stream had no name but it began from a spring 00:03:36.420 --> 00:03:38.280 align:middle line:84% and flowed down a hill into the Scioto 00:03:38.280 --> 00:03:40.650 align:middle line:84% that then flowed into the Ohio that then flowed 00:03:40.650 --> 00:03:43.710 align:middle line:84% into the Mississippi that then flowed into the Gulf of Mexico. 00:03:43.710 --> 00:03:46.590 align:middle line:84% The stream was a part of us and we were part of the stream 00:03:46.590 --> 00:03:48.210 align:middle line:84% and we were thus part of the rivers 00:03:48.210 --> 00:03:50.490 align:middle line:84% and as part of the gulfs and the oceans. 00:03:50.490 --> 00:03:52.680 align:middle line:84% And we began to learn the stream. 00:03:52.680 --> 00:03:54.750 align:middle line:84% We looked under stones for the caddisfly larva 00:03:54.750 --> 00:03:55.470 align:middle line:90% and its adhesive. 00:03:55.470 --> 00:03:56.970 align:middle line:84% And we counted the creek chub and we 00:03:56.970 --> 00:03:58.470 align:middle line:90% counted the slenderhead darter. 00:03:58.470 --> 00:04:00.840 align:middle line:84% We learned to recognize the large, upright, dense, 00:04:00.840 --> 00:04:02.790 align:middle line:84% candle-like clusters of yellowish flowers 00:04:02.790 --> 00:04:05.130 align:middle line:84% at the branch ends of the horse chestnut. 00:04:05.130 --> 00:04:07.800 align:middle line:84% And we appreciated the feathery gracefulness of the drooping, 00:04:07.800 --> 00:04:10.560 align:middle line:84% but upturned branchlets of the larch. 00:04:10.560 --> 00:04:13.590 align:middle line:84% We mimic the cat-like meow, the soft quirrt or kwut, 00:04:13.590 --> 00:04:16.560 align:middle line:84% and the louder, grating ratchet calls of the gray catbird. 00:04:16.560 --> 00:04:18.370 align:middle line:90% We put our heads together. 00:04:18.370 --> 00:04:20.370 align:middle line:84% We put our heads together with all these things, 00:04:20.370 --> 00:04:22.245 align:middle line:84% with the caddisfly larva, with the creek chub 00:04:22.245 --> 00:04:24.690 align:middle line:84% and the slenderhead darter, with the horse chestnut 00:04:24.690 --> 00:04:26.850 align:middle line:84% and the larch and the gray catbird. 00:04:26.850 --> 00:04:29.940 align:middle line:84% And we put our heads together on a narrow pillow, on a stone, 00:04:29.940 --> 00:04:31.410 align:middle line:90% on a narrow stone pillow. 00:04:31.410 --> 00:04:34.500 align:middle line:84% And we talked to each other all day long because we loved. 00:04:34.500 --> 00:04:37.202 align:middle line:84% We love the stream and we were of the stream. 00:04:37.202 --> 00:04:38.910 align:middle line:84% And we couldn't help this love because we 00:04:38.910 --> 00:04:41.640 align:middle line:84% arrived at the bank of the stream and began breathing. 00:04:41.640 --> 00:04:44.070 align:middle line:84% And the stream was various and full of information. 00:04:44.070 --> 00:04:46.830 align:middle line:84% And it changed our bodies with its rotten, with its cold, 00:04:46.830 --> 00:04:49.380 align:middle line:84% with its clean, with its mucky with fallen leaves, 00:04:49.380 --> 00:04:52.230 align:middle line:84% with its things that bite the edges of the skin, 00:04:52.230 --> 00:04:55.140 align:middle line:84% with its sand and dirt, with its pungent at moments, 00:04:55.140 --> 00:04:57.630 align:middle line:84% with its dry and prickly, with its warmth, 00:04:57.630 --> 00:04:59.880 align:middle line:84% with its mushy and moist, with its hard flat stones 00:04:59.880 --> 00:05:03.020 align:middle line:84% on the bottom, with its horizon lines of gently rolling hills, 00:05:03.020 --> 00:05:04.770 align:middle line:84% with its darkness, with its dappled light, 00:05:04.770 --> 00:05:09.570 align:middle line:84% with its cicadas buzz, and with its trills of birds. 00:05:09.570 --> 00:05:10.680 align:middle line:90% Three. 00:05:10.680 --> 00:05:12.960 align:middle line:84% This is where we learn love and where we learn depth 00:05:12.960 --> 00:05:14.793 align:middle line:84% and where we learn layers and where we learn 00:05:14.793 --> 00:05:16.530 align:middle line:90% connections between layers. 00:05:16.530 --> 00:05:18.930 align:middle line:84% And our hearts took on many things. 00:05:18.930 --> 00:05:21.420 align:middle line:84% Our hearts took on new shapes, new shapes every day 00:05:21.420 --> 00:05:23.197 align:middle line:84% as we went to the stream every day. 00:05:23.197 --> 00:05:25.530 align:middle line:84% And our hearts took on the shape of well-defined ripples 00:05:25.530 --> 00:05:27.690 align:middle line:84% and pools, clean substrates, woody debris, 00:05:27.690 --> 00:05:29.640 align:middle line:84% meandering channels, floodplains, 00:05:29.640 --> 00:05:31.820 align:middle line:90% and mature stream-side forests. 00:05:31.820 --> 00:05:33.570 align:middle line:84% Our hearts took on the shape of the stream 00:05:33.570 --> 00:05:35.820 align:middle line:84% and became riffled and calmed and muddy and clean 00:05:35.820 --> 00:05:37.633 align:middle line:90% and flooded and shrunk and dry. 00:05:37.633 --> 00:05:39.550 align:middle line:84% And our hearts took on the shape of whirligigs 00:05:39.550 --> 00:05:40.720 align:middle line:90% swirling across the water. 00:05:40.720 --> 00:05:42.720 align:middle line:84% And we shaped our hearts into the sycamore trees 00:05:42.720 --> 00:05:44.010 align:middle line:90% along the side of the stream. 00:05:44.010 --> 00:05:46.410 align:middle line:84% And we let into our hearts the long pendulous polygamist 00:05:46.410 --> 00:05:48.870 align:middle line:84% racemes of its small green flowers, 00:05:48.870 --> 00:05:51.360 align:middle line:84% the first formed male flowers with no pistil 00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:53.670 align:middle line:84% and then the later arriving hairy ovary with his two 00:05:53.670 --> 00:05:55.650 align:middle line:90% curved stigmas. 00:05:55.650 --> 00:05:58.020 align:middle line:84% We let ourselves love the one day of the adult life 00:05:58.020 --> 00:06:00.090 align:middle line:84% at the mayfly as it swarms, mates in flight, 00:06:00.090 --> 00:06:01.830 align:middle line:90% and dies all without eating. 00:06:01.830 --> 00:06:03.930 align:middle line:84% And we shaped our hearts into the water willow 00:06:03.930 --> 00:06:06.270 align:middle line:84% and into the egg spawned in the water willow. 00:06:06.270 --> 00:06:08.430 align:middle line:84% And our hearts took on the brilliant blues, reds, 00:06:08.430 --> 00:06:10.680 align:middle line:84% and oranges of the breeding male rainbow darter. 00:06:10.680 --> 00:06:13.320 align:middle line:84% And our heart swam to the female rainbow darter. 00:06:13.320 --> 00:06:15.120 align:middle line:84% And we poked her side with our snout 00:06:15.120 --> 00:06:16.860 align:middle line:84% as she buried herself under the gravel. 00:06:16.860 --> 00:06:19.440 align:middle line:84% And we laid upon her as she vibrated. 00:06:19.440 --> 00:06:21.120 align:middle line:84% We let leaves and algae into our hearts. 00:06:21.120 --> 00:06:22.800 align:middle line:84% And then we let the mollusk and the insects 00:06:22.800 --> 00:06:24.360 align:middle line:84% and we let the midge larvae into our heart 00:06:24.360 --> 00:06:25.680 align:middle line:90% and then the stonefly nymph. 00:06:25.680 --> 00:06:27.330 align:middle line:84% And then a minnow came into our heart. 00:06:27.330 --> 00:06:29.190 align:middle line:84% And then we let the blue heron and fly in, 00:06:29.190 --> 00:06:31.440 align:middle line:84% and the raccoon ambled by, and the snapping turtle 00:06:31.440 --> 00:06:33.330 align:middle line:90% and the water snake also. 00:06:33.330 --> 00:06:35.190 align:middle line:84% We immersed ourselves in the shallow stream. 00:06:35.190 --> 00:06:37.680 align:middle line:84% We lied down on the rocks on our narrow pillow stone 00:06:37.680 --> 00:06:39.150 align:middle line:90% and let the water pass over us. 00:06:39.150 --> 00:06:41.400 align:middle line:84% And our heart was bathed in glochidia and other things 00:06:41.400 --> 00:06:42.660 align:middle line:90% that attached to the flesh. 00:06:42.660 --> 00:06:44.850 align:middle line:90% And as we did this, we sang. 00:06:44.850 --> 00:06:46.560 align:middle line:90% We sang gentle now. 00:06:46.560 --> 00:06:49.230 align:middle line:84% Gentle now clubshell, don't add to heartache. 00:06:49.230 --> 00:06:53.010 align:middle line:84% Gentle now warmouth, mayfly nymph, don't add to heartache. 00:06:53.010 --> 00:06:56.280 align:middle line:84% Gentle now walnut, goldfish, butterfly, striped fly larva, 00:06:56.280 --> 00:06:57.690 align:middle line:90% don't add to heartache. 00:06:57.690 --> 00:07:00.870 align:middle line:84% Gentle now purple wartyback, narrow-winged damselfly, 00:07:00.870 --> 00:07:03.690 align:middle line:84% spruce, pirate perch, three-horned wartyback sumac, 00:07:03.690 --> 00:07:05.670 align:middle line:90% don't add to heartache. 00:07:05.670 --> 00:07:08.850 align:middle line:84% Gentle now creek heelsplitter, mulberry, crane fly larva, 00:07:08.850 --> 00:07:12.000 align:middle line:84% mountain madtom, oak, bank swallow, wabash pigtoe, 00:07:12.000 --> 00:07:14.850 align:middle line:84% damselfly larva, don't add to heartache. 00:07:14.850 --> 00:07:17.640 align:middle line:84% Gentle now whirligig beetle larva, hickory, sparrow, 00:07:17.640 --> 00:07:21.520 align:middle line:84% caddisfly larva, fluted shell, horse chestnut, wartybark, 00:07:21.520 --> 00:07:25.710 align:middle line:84% white heelsplitter, larch, don't add to heartache. 00:07:25.710 --> 00:07:28.710 align:middle line:84% Gentle now stonefly nymph, dogwood, warbling vireo, 00:07:28.710 --> 00:07:32.670 align:middle line:84% sow bug, elktoe, marsh wren, monkeyface, central mudminnow, 00:07:32.670 --> 00:07:35.880 align:middle line:84% fir, gray-cheeked thrush, don't add to heartache. 00:07:35.880 --> 00:07:39.060 align:middle line:84% Gentle now king eider, river darter, sauger, burning bush, 00:07:39.060 --> 00:07:42.600 align:middle line:84% common merganser, limpet, mayfly nymph, cedar, turkey vulture, 00:07:42.600 --> 00:07:46.110 align:middle line:84% spectacle case, flat floater, cherry, red-tailed hawk, 00:07:46.110 --> 00:07:47.130 align:middle line:90% don't add to heartache. 00:07:47.130 --> 00:07:48.450 align:middle line:90% Gentle now we sang. 00:07:48.450 --> 00:07:50.610 align:middle line:84% Circle our heart in rapture, in love-ache. 00:07:50.610 --> 00:07:52.680 align:middle line:90% Circle our heart. 00:07:52.680 --> 00:07:53.490 align:middle line:90% Four. 00:07:53.490 --> 00:07:57.720 align:middle line:84% It was not all long lines of connection in utopia, 00:07:57.720 --> 00:07:59.130 align:middle line:90% it was a brackish stream. 00:07:59.130 --> 00:08:01.470 align:middle line:84% And it went through this field beside our house. 00:08:01.470 --> 00:08:04.260 align:middle line:84% And we let into our hearts the brackish parts of it also, 00:08:04.260 --> 00:08:05.260 align:middle line:90% some of it knowingly. 00:08:05.260 --> 00:08:07.410 align:middle line:84% We let in soda cans and we let in cigarette butts 00:08:07.410 --> 00:08:10.140 align:middle line:84% and we let in pink tampon applicators. 00:08:10.140 --> 00:08:12.570 align:middle line:84% And we let in six pack of beer connectors. 00:08:12.570 --> 00:08:14.640 align:middle line:84% And we let in various other pieces of plastic 00:08:14.640 --> 00:08:16.890 align:middle line:84% that would travel through the stream, and some of it 00:08:16.890 --> 00:08:17.850 align:middle line:90% unknowingly. 00:08:17.850 --> 00:08:20.760 align:middle line:84% We let the runoff from agriculture, surface mines, 00:08:20.760 --> 00:08:23.430 align:middle line:84% forestry, home wastewater treatment systems, 00:08:23.430 --> 00:08:26.980 align:middle line:84% construction sites, urban yards, and roadways into our hearts. 00:08:26.980 --> 00:08:29.910 align:middle line:84% We let chloride, magnesium, sulfate, manganese, iron, 00:08:29.910 --> 00:08:32.730 align:middle line:84% nitrates, aluminum, suspended solids, zinc, phosphorus, 00:08:32.730 --> 00:08:35.789 align:middle line:84% fertilizers, animal waste, oil, grease, dioxins. 00:08:35.789 --> 00:08:40.023 align:middle line:84% Heavy metals and lead go through our skin and into our tissues. 00:08:40.023 --> 00:08:41.940 align:middle line:84% We were born at the beginning of these things, 00:08:41.940 --> 00:08:43.409 align:middle line:84% at the time of chemicals combining, 00:08:43.409 --> 00:08:45.180 align:middle line:90% at the time of stream runoff. 00:08:45.180 --> 00:08:46.650 align:middle line:84% And these things were a part of us 00:08:46.650 --> 00:08:49.530 align:middle line:84% and would become more a part of us, but we did not know it yet. 00:08:49.530 --> 00:08:52.290 align:middle line:84% Still, we noticed enough to sing a lament, to sing 00:08:52.290 --> 00:08:54.450 align:middle line:84% and lament for whoever lost her elephant ear, 00:08:54.450 --> 00:08:56.070 align:middle line:90% lost her mountain madtom. 00:08:56.070 --> 00:08:59.190 align:middle line:84% And whoever lost her butterfly, lost her harelip sucker. 00:08:59.190 --> 00:09:02.400 align:middle line:84% And whoever lost her white catspaw, lost her rabbitsfoot. 00:09:02.400 --> 00:09:05.220 align:middle line:84% And whoever lost her monkeyface, lost her speckled chub. 00:09:05.220 --> 00:09:08.040 align:middle line:84% And whoever lost her wartyback, lost her ebonyshell. 00:09:08.040 --> 00:09:10.950 align:middle line:84% And whoever lost her pirate perch, lost her Ohio pigtoe, 00:09:10.950 --> 00:09:13.630 align:middle line:90% lost her clubshell. 00:09:13.630 --> 00:09:14.770 align:middle line:90% Five. 00:09:14.770 --> 00:09:17.560 align:middle line:84% What I did not know as I sang the lament of what was becoming 00:09:17.560 --> 00:09:21.265 align:middle line:84% lost and what was already lost was how this loss would happen. 00:09:21.265 --> 00:09:23.890 align:middle line:84% I did not know that I would turn from the stream to each other. 00:09:23.890 --> 00:09:25.842 align:middle line:84% I did not know I would turn to each other, 00:09:25.842 --> 00:09:27.550 align:middle line:84% that I would turn to each other to admire 00:09:27.550 --> 00:09:29.092 align:middle line:84% the softness of each other's breasts, 00:09:29.092 --> 00:09:30.550 align:middle line:84% the folds of each other's elbows, 00:09:30.550 --> 00:09:32.230 align:middle line:84% the brightness of each other's eyes, 00:09:32.230 --> 00:09:33.850 align:middle line:84% the smoothness of each other's hair, 00:09:33.850 --> 00:09:35.530 align:middle line:84% the evenness of each other's teeth, 00:09:35.530 --> 00:09:37.360 align:middle line:84% the firm blush of each other's lips, 00:09:37.360 --> 00:09:39.520 align:middle line:84% the firm softness of each other's breasts, 00:09:39.520 --> 00:09:42.940 align:middle line:84% the fuzz of each other's calves, thighs, the rich, ripe pungency 00:09:42.940 --> 00:09:44.950 align:middle line:84% of each other's smell, all of it, 00:09:44.950 --> 00:09:47.740 align:middle line:84% each other's cheeks, legs, neck, roof of mouth, 00:09:47.740 --> 00:09:51.010 align:middle line:84% webbing between the finger, tips of nails and also cuticles, 00:09:51.010 --> 00:09:54.910 align:middle line:84% hair on toes, whorls on fingers, skin discolorations. 00:09:54.910 --> 00:09:56.470 align:middle line:90% I turned to each other. 00:09:56.470 --> 00:09:58.780 align:middle line:84% Ensnared, bewildered, I turned to each other 00:09:58.780 --> 00:09:59.920 align:middle line:90% and from the stream. 00:09:59.920 --> 00:10:01.360 align:middle line:84% I turned to each other and I began 00:10:01.360 --> 00:10:03.220 align:middle line:84% to work for the chemical factory and I began 00:10:03.220 --> 00:10:04.387 align:middle line:90% to work with the paper mill. 00:10:04.387 --> 00:10:06.850 align:middle line:84% And I began to work for the atomic waste disposal plant. 00:10:06.850 --> 00:10:09.280 align:middle line:84% And I began to work at keeping men in jail. 00:10:09.280 --> 00:10:10.930 align:middle line:90% I turned to each other. 00:10:10.930 --> 00:10:14.080 align:middle line:84% I didn't even say goodbye elephant ear, mountain madtorn, 00:10:14.080 --> 00:10:16.840 align:middle line:84% butterfly, harelip sucker, white catspaw, rabbitsfoot, 00:10:16.840 --> 00:10:19.900 align:middle line:84% monkeyface, speckled chub, wartybark, ebonyshell, 00:10:19.900 --> 00:10:23.110 align:middle line:84% pirate perch, Ohio pigtoe, clubshell. 00:10:23.110 --> 00:10:25.750 align:middle line:84% I replaced what I knew of the stream with Livestream Total 00:10:25.750 --> 00:10:29.110 align:middle line:84% Cholesterol Test Packets, with Snuggle Emerald Stream Fabric 00:10:29.110 --> 00:10:32.860 align:middle line:84% Softener Dryer Sheets, with Tisserand Aromatherapy Aroma 00:10:32.860 --> 00:10:35.350 align:middle line:84% Stream Cartridges, with Filter Stream Dust 00:10:35.350 --> 00:10:39.910 align:middle line:84% Tamer, and Streamzap PC Remote Control, Acid Stream Launcher, 00:10:39.910 --> 00:10:41.950 align:middle line:90% and Viral Data Stream. 00:10:41.950 --> 00:10:44.830 align:middle line:84% I didn't even say goodbye elephant ear, mountain madtorn, 00:10:44.830 --> 00:10:47.860 align:middle line:84% butterfly, harelip sucker, white catspaw, rabbitsfoot, 00:10:47.860 --> 00:10:50.470 align:middle line:84% monkeyface, speckled chub, wartybark, ebonyshell, 00:10:50.470 --> 00:10:53.200 align:middle line:84% pirate perch, Ohio pigtoe, clubshell. 00:10:53.200 --> 00:10:55.210 align:middle line:84% I put a Streamline Tilt Mirror in my shower 00:10:55.210 --> 00:10:58.000 align:middle line:84% and I kept a crystal Serenity Sphere with a Winter Stream 00:10:58.000 --> 00:10:59.660 align:middle line:90% view on my dresser. 00:10:59.660 --> 00:11:03.220 align:middle line:84% And I didn't even say goodbye elephant ear, mountain madtorn, 00:11:03.220 --> 00:11:06.160 align:middle line:84% butterfly, harelip sucker, white catspaw, rabbitsfoot, 00:11:06.160 --> 00:11:09.100 align:middle line:84% monkeyface, speckled chub, wartyback, ebonyshell, 00:11:09.100 --> 00:11:12.430 align:middle line:84% pirate perch, Ohio pigtoe, clubshell. 00:11:12.430 --> 00:11:14.650 align:middle line:84% I brought a Gulf Stream Blue Polyester 00:11:14.650 --> 00:11:18.400 align:middle line:84% boat cover for my 14 to 16 foot V -Hull fishing 00:11:18.400 --> 00:11:21.160 align:middle line:84% boats with beam widths up to 68 feet. 00:11:21.160 --> 00:11:24.220 align:middle line:84% And I talked about value stream management with men in suits 00:11:24.220 --> 00:11:25.610 align:middle line:90% over a desk. 00:11:25.610 --> 00:11:28.660 align:middle line:84% I didn't even say goodbye elephant ear, mountain madtorn, 00:11:28.660 --> 00:11:31.780 align:middle line:84% butterfly harelip sucker, white catspaw, rabbitsfoot, 00:11:31.780 --> 00:11:34.270 align:middle line:84% monkeyface, speckled chub, wartybark, ebonyshell, 00:11:34.270 --> 00:11:37.150 align:middle line:84% pirate perch, Ohio pigtoe, clubshell. 00:11:37.150 --> 00:11:39.850 align:middle line:84% I just turned to each other and the body parts of the other 00:11:39.850 --> 00:11:41.890 align:middle line:84% suddenly glowed with the beauty and detail 00:11:41.890 --> 00:11:43.900 align:middle line:84% that I had found once in the stream. 00:11:43.900 --> 00:11:46.330 align:middle line:84% And I put my head together on a narrow pillow 00:11:46.330 --> 00:11:48.310 align:middle line:84% and talked with each other all night long. 00:11:48.310 --> 00:11:49.240 align:middle line:90% And I did not sing. 00:11:49.240 --> 00:11:53.140 align:middle line:84% I did not sing otototoi-- dark, all merged together, oi. 00:11:53.140 --> 00:11:55.330 align:middle line:84% I did not sing the groaning words. 00:11:55.330 --> 00:11:59.190 align:middle line:84% I did not sing otototoi-- dark, all merged together, oi. 00:11:59.190 --> 00:12:01.180 align:middle line:84% I did not sing the groaning words. 00:12:01.180 --> 00:12:03.340 align:middle line:90% I did not sing o wo, wo, wo. 00:12:03.340 --> 00:12:05.350 align:middle line:90% I did not sing I see, I see. 00:12:05.350 --> 00:12:08.650 align:middle line:90% I did not sing, wo, wo." 00:12:08.650 --> 00:12:10.450 align:middle line:84% And then this last one, it's actually 00:12:10.450 --> 00:12:12.460 align:middle line:84% something-- it's an entirely different pace. 00:12:12.460 --> 00:12:15.810 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:12:15.810 --> 00:12:18.000 align:middle line:90%