WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.600 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.600 --> 00:00:02.250 align:middle line:90% I have a poem in two voices. 00:00:02.250 --> 00:00:05.520 align:middle line:84% And I've tried forever to read this poem alone 00:00:05.520 --> 00:00:08.760 align:middle line:84% in the two voices, looking this way, looking that way. 00:00:08.760 --> 00:00:10.875 align:middle line:84% I only get distracted and confused. 00:00:10.875 --> 00:00:15.120 align:middle line:84% Camille is going to be the 35-year-old me, 00:00:15.120 --> 00:00:19.140 align:middle line:84% and I'm going to be the 25-year-old me, in a poem 00:00:19.140 --> 00:00:20.550 align:middle line:90% called "Unfinished Duet." 00:00:20.550 --> 00:00:24.040 align:middle line:90% 00:00:24.040 --> 00:00:28.330 align:middle line:84% "At first, there were too many branches, so he cut them. 00:00:28.330 --> 00:00:30.200 align:middle line:90% And then it was winter. 00:00:30.200 --> 00:00:31.313 align:middle line:90% He meaning you? 00:00:31.313 --> 00:00:32.560 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:32.560 --> 00:00:34.150 align:middle line:84% He would look out the window and stare 00:00:34.150 --> 00:00:36.730 align:middle line:84% at the trees that once had too many branches 00:00:36.730 --> 00:00:39.250 align:middle line:90% and now seem to have too few. 00:00:39.250 --> 00:00:40.120 align:middle line:90% Is that all? 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:40.990 align:middle line:90% No. 00:00:40.990 --> 00:00:45.040 align:middle line:84% There were other attempts, breakfasts, plates served, 00:00:45.040 --> 00:00:46.930 align:middle line:90% plates carried away. 00:00:46.930 --> 00:00:50.080 align:middle line:84% He doesn't know what to do with his hands. 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:52.420 align:middle line:84% He likes the feel of the coffee pot. 00:00:52.420 --> 00:00:54.190 align:middle line:90% More than the hacksaw? 00:00:54.190 --> 00:00:55.330 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:00:55.330 --> 00:00:57.250 align:middle line:84% And he likes flipping the chairs, 00:00:57.250 --> 00:00:59.050 align:middle line:90% watching them fill with people. 00:00:59.050 --> 00:01:01.730 align:middle line:84% He likes the orange juice and toast of it 00:01:01.730 --> 00:01:04.360 align:middle line:90% and wax lowers in any light. 00:01:04.360 --> 00:01:07.480 align:middle line:84% He wants to be tender and merciful. 00:01:07.480 --> 00:01:09.700 align:middle line:90% That sounds overly valorous. 00:01:09.700 --> 00:01:12.160 align:middle line:90% It sounds like penance. 00:01:12.160 --> 00:01:14.020 align:middle line:90% And his hands? 00:01:14.020 --> 00:01:18.400 align:middle line:84% His hands keep turning into birds and flying away from him. 00:01:18.400 --> 00:01:20.520 align:middle line:90% Him being you? 00:01:20.520 --> 00:01:21.880 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:01:21.880 --> 00:01:24.460 align:middle line:90% Do you love yourself? 00:01:24.460 --> 00:01:27.010 align:middle line:90% I don't have to answer that. 00:01:27.010 --> 00:01:29.170 align:middle line:90% It should matter. 00:01:29.170 --> 00:01:31.150 align:middle line:84% He has a body, but it doesn't matter. 00:01:31.150 --> 00:01:35.210 align:middle line:84% Clean sheets on the bed, but it doesn't matter. 00:01:35.210 --> 00:01:41.050 align:middle line:84% This is where he trots out his sadness, little black cloud, 00:01:41.050 --> 00:01:43.360 align:middle line:90% a little black umbrella. 00:01:43.360 --> 00:01:45.340 align:middle line:90% You miss the point. 00:01:45.340 --> 00:01:48.670 align:middle line:84% The face in the mirror is a little traitor. 00:01:48.670 --> 00:01:51.910 align:middle line:84% The face in the mirror is a pale and naked hostage, 00:01:51.910 --> 00:01:55.810 align:middle line:84% and no one can tell which room he's being held in. 00:01:55.810 --> 00:01:57.220 align:middle line:90% He wants in. 00:01:57.220 --> 00:01:58.760 align:middle line:90% He wants out. 00:01:58.760 --> 00:02:00.940 align:middle line:90% He wants the antidote. 00:02:00.940 --> 00:02:04.120 align:middle line:84% He stands in front of the mirror with a net, 00:02:04.120 --> 00:02:07.690 align:middle line:90% hoping to catch something. 00:02:07.690 --> 00:02:11.380 align:middle line:84% He wants to move forward into the afternoon 00:02:11.380 --> 00:02:15.250 align:middle line:84% because there is no other choice. 00:02:15.250 --> 00:02:20.260 align:middle line:84% Everyone in this room got here somehow, 00:02:20.260 --> 00:02:25.820 align:middle line:84% and everyone in this room will have to leave. 00:02:25.820 --> 00:02:26.900 align:middle line:90% So what's left? 00:02:26.900 --> 00:02:29.600 align:middle line:84% Sing a song about the room we're in? 00:02:29.600 --> 00:02:34.290 align:middle line:84% Hammer in the pegs that fixed the meaning to the landscape? 00:02:34.290 --> 00:02:38.150 align:middle line:84% The voice wants to be a hand, and the hand 00:02:38.150 --> 00:02:41.140 align:middle line:90% wants to do something useful. 00:02:41.140 --> 00:02:44.380 align:middle line:90% What did you really want? 00:02:44.380 --> 00:02:47.570 align:middle line:90% Someone to pass this with me. 00:02:47.570 --> 00:02:48.700 align:middle line:90% You wanted more. 00:02:48.700 --> 00:02:50.980 align:middle line:90% I want what everyone wants. 00:02:50.980 --> 00:02:55.290 align:middle line:84% He raises the moon on a crane for a fact. 00:02:55.290 --> 00:02:58.380 align:middle line:90% Cue the violins. 00:02:58.380 --> 00:03:00.550 align:middle line:90% That's what the violins are for. 00:03:00.550 --> 00:03:03.660 align:middle line:84% And yes, he raises the moon on a crane 00:03:03.660 --> 00:03:07.440 align:middle line:90% and scrubs it until it shines. 00:03:07.440 --> 00:03:09.780 align:middle line:90% So what does it shine on? 00:03:09.780 --> 00:03:11.080 align:middle line:90% Nothing. 00:03:11.080 --> 00:03:12.900 align:middle line:90% Was there no one else? 00:03:12.900 --> 00:03:15.360 align:middle line:84% Left-handed truth, right-handed truth-- 00:03:15.360 --> 00:03:18.360 align:middle line:90% there's no pure way to say it. 00:03:18.360 --> 00:03:22.200 align:middle line:84% The wind blows, and it makes a noise. 00:03:22.200 --> 00:03:25.110 align:middle line:90% Pain makes a noise. 00:03:25.110 --> 00:03:29.130 align:middle line:84% We bang on the pipes, and it makes a noise. 00:03:29.130 --> 00:03:32.440 align:middle line:90% Was there no one else? 00:03:32.440 --> 00:03:34.600 align:middle line:84% His hands keep turning into birds, 00:03:34.600 --> 00:03:38.460 align:middle line:84% and his hands keep flying away from him. 00:03:38.460 --> 00:03:43.590 align:middle line:84% Eventually, the birds must land." 00:03:43.590 --> 00:03:46.000 align:middle line:90%