WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.920 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.920 --> 00:00:06.210 align:middle line:84% Lucy, your secret book that you lie over and woke just 00:00:06.210 --> 00:00:08.070 align:middle line:90% in the dirt. 00:00:08.070 --> 00:00:10.770 align:middle line:90% Not having to have an ending. 00:00:10.770 --> 00:00:12.030 align:middle line:90% Not having to last. 00:00:12.030 --> 00:00:14.980 align:middle line:90% 00:00:14.980 --> 00:00:17.050 align:middle line:90% Here's this bit from a song. 00:00:17.050 --> 00:00:18.010 align:middle line:90% And I woke. 00:00:18.010 --> 00:00:20.305 align:middle line:84% All my members were with me, which 00:00:20.305 --> 00:00:23.352 align:middle line:84% in continuance were fashioned when as yet there 00:00:23.352 --> 00:00:24.060 align:middle line:90% was none of them. 00:00:24.060 --> 00:00:28.710 align:middle line:90% 00:00:28.710 --> 00:00:34.530 align:middle line:84% Two hands were all you owned for food, for love. 00:00:34.530 --> 00:00:37.560 align:middle line:90% Now you own none, Lucy. 00:00:37.560 --> 00:00:41.240 align:middle line:84% No real words, only breath marks. 00:00:41.240 --> 00:00:48.240 align:middle line:84% Breath marks only, nor no words, or what do you do for love? 00:00:48.240 --> 00:00:48.900 align:middle line:90% No, no. 00:00:48.900 --> 00:00:52.350 align:middle line:90% What do you do, Lucy, for love? 00:00:52.350 --> 00:00:53.430 align:middle line:90% Your eye holes. 00:00:53.430 --> 00:00:56.500 align:middle line:90% 00:00:56.500 --> 00:01:00.700 align:middle line:84% Lucy, my saxifrage that splits the rocks. 00:01:00.700 --> 00:01:06.100 align:middle line:84% Wild good mother, you fill my center hole with bliss. 00:01:06.100 --> 00:01:11.920 align:middle line:84% No one is so tender in her scream, wants me so much. 00:01:11.920 --> 00:01:18.520 align:middle line:84% Not just, but brings me to be Is when I'm close to death 00:01:18.520 --> 00:01:19.660 align:middle line:90% and close to life. 00:01:19.660 --> 00:01:22.890 align:middle line:90% 00:01:22.890 --> 00:01:29.200 align:middle line:84% Spider in her web, three days, dead on the window, Lucy. 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:32.150 align:middle line:90% 00:01:32.150 --> 00:01:35.940 align:middle line:84% In the electricity of love, the lightning strike, or in 00:01:35.940 --> 00:01:40.020 align:middle line:84% its quiet hum in the thighs, like this little ice box 00:01:40.020 --> 00:01:42.690 align:middle line:90% here not knowing any better. 00:01:42.690 --> 00:01:46.410 align:middle line:84% Or in the dumb hum of the heater going on. 00:01:46.410 --> 00:01:49.050 align:middle line:90% Little stirs in the room tone. 00:01:49.050 --> 00:01:51.510 align:middle line:90% I rush outdoors into the air. 00:01:51.510 --> 00:01:53.910 align:middle line:90% You are Lucy. 00:01:53.910 --> 00:01:56.640 align:middle line:90% And you rush out to receive me. 00:01:56.640 --> 00:01:59.580 align:middle line:84% At last, there you are, who I always 00:01:59.580 --> 00:02:03.160 align:middle line:84% knew was there, but almost died not meeting. 00:02:03.160 --> 00:02:06.110 align:middle line:90% 00:02:06.110 --> 00:02:09.800 align:middle line:84% When my scraped out child died, Lucy, you 00:02:09.800 --> 00:02:11.780 align:middle line:90% hold her, all the time. 00:02:11.780 --> 00:02:15.850 align:middle line:90% 00:02:15.850 --> 00:02:18.820 align:middle line:84% Lucy, when the dark bodies dropped out 00:02:18.820 --> 00:02:24.372 align:middle line:84% of the towers, when Ruth died and Grace and Helen 00:02:24.372 --> 00:02:27.440 align:middle line:90% Ruth and Iraq and Iraq. 00:02:27.440 --> 00:02:27.940 align:middle line:90% And Nikolay. 00:02:27.940 --> 00:02:31.720 align:middle line:90% 00:02:31.720 --> 00:02:34.960 align:middle line:84% Lucy, when Jane in her last clothes 00:02:34.960 --> 00:02:38.320 align:middle line:90% goes across with Chekhov 00:02:38.320 --> 00:02:43.240 align:middle line:84% you are the ferryman, the monk Ieronim who 00:02:43.240 --> 00:02:46.950 align:middle line:90% throws your weight on the rope. 00:02:46.950 --> 00:02:50.380 align:middle line:84% Can you hear when the planes are going over? 00:02:50.380 --> 00:02:50.880 align:middle line:90% No? 00:02:50.880 --> 00:02:52.180 align:middle line:90% Yes? 00:02:52.180 --> 00:02:52.770 align:middle line:90% You can? 00:02:52.770 --> 00:02:57.000 align:middle line:90% 00:02:57.000 --> 00:02:58.980 align:middle line:90% Back up a little bit. 00:02:58.980 --> 00:03:02.040 align:middle line:84% It'd be nice if you backed up a little bit. 00:03:02.040 --> 00:03:03.990 align:middle line:90% If you reread a little bit. 00:03:03.990 --> 00:03:07.378 align:middle line:90% Oh, back up in the poem. 00:03:07.378 --> 00:03:09.780 align:middle line:90% I'll do anything you tell me. 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:10.650 align:middle line:90% If you don't mind. 00:03:10.650 --> 00:03:11.280 align:middle line:90% I don't mind. 00:03:11.280 --> 00:03:13.140 align:middle line:90% Where should I go back to? 00:03:13.140 --> 00:03:16.260 align:middle line:90% A minute or two? 00:03:16.260 --> 00:03:16.965 align:middle line:90% To 7:30. 00:03:16.965 --> 00:03:23.610 align:middle line:90% 00:03:23.610 --> 00:03:26.130 align:middle line:90% In the electricity of love? 00:03:26.130 --> 00:03:28.050 align:middle line:90% In the electricity of love-- 00:03:28.050 --> 00:03:30.640 align:middle line:84% and then should I stop when the planes go over? 00:03:30.640 --> 00:03:31.320 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:03:31.320 --> 00:03:32.310 align:middle line:90% I need your help here. 00:03:32.310 --> 00:03:32.870 align:middle line:90% I don't know. 00:03:32.870 --> 00:03:33.370 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:03:33.370 --> 00:03:35.370 align:middle line:84% I should stop when the planes go over. 00:03:35.370 --> 00:03:36.840 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:03:36.840 --> 00:03:39.360 align:middle line:84% In the electricity of love, its lightning 00:03:39.360 --> 00:03:43.260 align:middle line:84% strike or in the quiet in the thighs 00:03:43.260 --> 00:03:48.150 align:middle line:84% like the little icebox here not knowing any better or even 00:03:48.150 --> 00:03:51.660 align:middle line:84% the dumb hum of the heater going on. 00:03:51.660 --> 00:03:54.510 align:middle line:90% Little stirs in the room tone. 00:03:54.510 --> 00:03:59.550 align:middle line:84% I rush outdoors into the air you are, Lucy, 00:03:59.550 --> 00:04:02.130 align:middle line:90% and you rush out to receive me. 00:04:02.130 --> 00:04:05.310 align:middle line:84% At last, there you are, who I always 00:04:05.310 --> 00:04:10.530 align:middle line:84% knew was there but almost died not meeting. 00:04:10.530 --> 00:04:14.700 align:middle line:84% When my scraped out child died, Lucy, you 00:04:14.700 --> 00:04:16.425 align:middle line:90% hold her all the time. 00:04:16.425 --> 00:04:20.140 align:middle line:90% 00:04:20.140 --> 00:04:24.550 align:middle line:84% Lucy, when the dark bodies dropped out of the towers, 00:04:24.550 --> 00:04:28.660 align:middle line:84% when Ruth died and Grace and Helen Ruth, 00:04:28.660 --> 00:04:33.490 align:middle line:90% and Iraq and Iraq and Nicolay. 00:04:33.490 --> 00:04:39.670 align:middle line:84% Lucy, when Jane in her last clothes go across with Chekhov, 00:04:39.670 --> 00:04:43.703 align:middle line:84% you are the ferryman, the monk Ieronim who 00:04:43.703 --> 00:04:44.995 align:middle line:90% throws your weight on the rope. 00:04:44.995 --> 00:04:50.200 align:middle line:90% 00:04:50.200 --> 00:04:53.845 align:middle line:84% I wash my plate, my spoon, as carefully as a priest. 00:04:53.845 --> 00:04:56.620 align:middle line:90% 00:04:56.620 --> 00:04:59.860 align:middle line:90% Did you have a cup, Lucy? 00:04:59.860 --> 00:05:04.810 align:middle line:84% Oh God who transcends time, let Lucy have a cup. 00:05:04.810 --> 00:05:07.390 align:middle line:90% You botthavista here with us. 00:05:07.390 --> 00:05:09.790 align:middle line:90% You wanted to come back. 00:05:09.790 --> 00:05:12.580 align:middle line:84% I'm afraid and can't pay attention to it. 00:05:12.580 --> 00:05:16.750 align:middle line:84% I'm wild with heat and cold, and my head hurts. 00:05:16.750 --> 00:05:23.020 align:middle line:84% The nine wild turkeys come up calmly to the porch to see you, 00:05:23.020 --> 00:05:24.570 align:middle line:90% Lucy.