WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.870 align:middle line:84%
This next poem doesn't have a
recognizable landscape at all,

00:00:03.870 --> 00:00:07.560 align:middle line:84%
except that it's meant to
take place right here, right

00:00:07.560 --> 00:00:11.130 align:middle line:84%
now at the end of the world,
which has already happened.

00:00:11.130 --> 00:00:17.650 align:middle line:84%
And it starts with the
title that is a date.

00:00:17.650 --> 00:00:24.300 align:middle line:84%
"August Zero"-- "young
trees the bright green

00:00:24.300 --> 00:00:26.800 align:middle line:90%
of a moonless night.

00:00:26.800 --> 00:00:30.810 align:middle line:90%
Lawns, the red of scorpion.

00:00:30.810 --> 00:00:37.290 align:middle line:84%
A pleasure dome drops, a drill
ceases, and a mower resumes.

00:00:37.290 --> 00:00:41.910 align:middle line:84%
It hides the spectacle of
the mountains and jolts us.

00:00:41.910 --> 00:00:43.980 align:middle line:84%
It's been a long
time, since we've had

00:00:43.980 --> 00:00:46.590 align:middle line:90%
a little space to ourselves.

00:00:46.590 --> 00:00:49.050 align:middle line:84%
Just the same in
spite of everything,

00:00:49.050 --> 00:00:51.870 align:middle line:84%
we are made to live
in the air, which

00:00:51.870 --> 00:00:54.960 align:middle line:84%
involves a certain number
of mental operations,

00:00:54.960 --> 00:00:57.540 align:middle line:90%
the full force of a bow.

00:00:57.540 --> 00:01:00.510 align:middle line:84%
A revision of the
notion of history,

00:01:00.510 --> 00:01:04.379 align:middle line:84%
oddly imitating animals
when I think about it,

00:01:04.379 --> 00:01:09.180 align:middle line:84%
doubling back, appearing
to be shot or struck.

00:01:09.180 --> 00:01:14.190 align:middle line:84%
And celestial sounds, not sound
itself, rock the bare Earth,

00:01:14.190 --> 00:01:18.000 align:middle line:84%
packed hard and nailed to
the tune of the unconscious,

00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:21.720 align:middle line:84%
which we regret to understand,
don't get me wrong.

00:01:21.720 --> 00:01:23.760 align:middle line:84%
There's still a
knowledge of freedom,

00:01:23.760 --> 00:01:28.350 align:middle line:84%
possession of a child's heart,
a handshake, even an air.

00:01:28.350 --> 00:01:33.370 align:middle line:84%
Language is a cross between
an appetite and a mouth.

00:01:33.370 --> 00:01:35.710 align:middle line:90%
I'm not hungry when I'm lonely.

00:01:35.710 --> 00:01:39.340 align:middle line:84%
Like all the lead and neon,
which has been forgotten,

00:01:39.340 --> 00:01:44.140 align:middle line:84%
I forget that people have
died forever, no one knows you

00:01:44.140 --> 00:01:48.160 align:middle line:84%
and the ideal place is a
dome with horses' shadows,

00:01:48.160 --> 00:01:50.410 align:middle line:90%
the shade of steel gin.

00:01:50.410 --> 00:01:56.670 align:middle line:84%
And what formerly acceded
to a view, constitutes love.

00:01:56.670 --> 00:01:57.930 align:middle line:90%
A pear.

00:01:57.930 --> 00:02:01.200 align:middle line:84%
Remember now, future
became present.

00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:05.970 align:middle line:84%
A pair in a kitchen
and two rooms in orbit,

00:02:05.970 --> 00:02:11.009 align:middle line:84%
pins the horizon with its
pony body and elk head.

00:02:11.009 --> 00:02:13.950 align:middle line:84%
And we enact where
we first made love

00:02:13.950 --> 00:02:16.450 align:middle line:90%
the camellia of our beloved.

00:02:16.450 --> 00:02:21.540 align:middle line:84%
We can't touch exactly, but
attempt a profound correlation,

00:02:21.540 --> 00:02:25.800 align:middle line:84%
we grip the skeleton of a
river, and the sun kisses it

00:02:25.800 --> 00:02:28.260 align:middle line:90%
like one's own throat.

00:02:28.260 --> 00:02:31.890 align:middle line:84%
This is the Earth
my love, all of us

00:02:31.890 --> 00:02:34.110 align:middle line:90%
have a chunk on our backs.

00:02:34.110 --> 00:02:37.920 align:middle line:84%
You are an angel
and I am an ancient

00:02:37.920 --> 00:02:42.030 align:middle line:84%
who are cast from 2 and
1/2 billion cars a day

00:02:42.030 --> 00:02:44.580 align:middle line:90%
into one copter night.

00:02:44.580 --> 00:02:49.560 align:middle line:84%
And closure is that windmill
through a wall in the circle,

00:02:49.560 --> 00:02:55.590 align:middle line:84%
drifting like the once innocent
oil spills in the Pacific,

00:02:55.590 --> 00:02:58.590 align:middle line:90%
drifting like conversation."

00:02:58.590 --> 00:03:01.940 align:middle line:90%
[APPLAUSE]

00:03:01.940 --> 00:03:06.000 align:middle line:90%