WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.587 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.587 --> 00:00:03.420 align:middle line:84% Well, you all or most of you I'm sure you've 00:00:03.420 --> 00:00:08.460 align:middle line:84% had little puppy dogs and you know how rambunctious they are. 00:00:08.460 --> 00:00:11.700 align:middle line:84% When they're three, four months old. 00:00:11.700 --> 00:00:14.400 align:middle line:84% About a year ago we had a little puppy. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:19.200 align:middle line:84% And every morning-- she wasn't big enough 00:00:19.200 --> 00:00:20.940 align:middle line:84% to jump up on the bed yet, but she 00:00:20.940 --> 00:00:24.930 align:middle line:84% was big enough to put her front paws up on the mattress. 00:00:24.930 --> 00:00:27.540 align:middle line:84% So, every morning that we'd wake up and look over and there 00:00:27.540 --> 00:00:30.090 align:middle line:84% would be this dog running on her hind legs 00:00:30.090 --> 00:00:32.887 align:middle line:84% back and forth on the edge of the mattress. 00:00:32.887 --> 00:00:35.220 align:middle line:84% You know what I'm talking about, you can relate to that. 00:00:35.220 --> 00:00:38.600 align:middle line:90% 00:00:38.600 --> 00:00:41.070 align:middle line:84% Well this is a combination of doggy poem. 00:00:41.070 --> 00:00:45.050 align:middle line:84% And I think it is jogging poem because I usually 00:00:45.050 --> 00:00:48.740 align:middle line:90% get up fairly early to run. 00:00:48.740 --> 00:00:53.330 align:middle line:84% There's one word in here, name of a disease called sclerosis. 00:00:53.330 --> 00:00:54.200 align:middle line:90% Anybody have that. 00:00:54.200 --> 00:00:55.492 align:middle line:90% Oh you're not willing to admit. 00:00:55.492 --> 00:00:58.460 align:middle line:90% 00:00:58.460 --> 00:01:00.650 align:middle line:90% Trees get it to. 00:01:00.650 --> 00:01:04.069 align:middle line:90% Different germ though. 00:01:04.069 --> 00:01:08.060 align:middle line:84% So, predictably this poem is called Piano Player. 00:01:08.060 --> 00:01:15.480 align:middle line:90% 00:01:15.480 --> 00:01:18.310 align:middle line:84% Each morning, when I managed to get up early, 00:01:18.310 --> 00:01:21.330 align:middle line:84% like the monks did getting a jump on their salvation 00:01:21.330 --> 00:01:22.560 align:middle line:90% by praying. 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:24.300 align:middle line:90% Singing anthems for hours. 00:01:24.300 --> 00:01:26.850 align:middle line:84% An assembly of men out of respect for God, 00:01:26.850 --> 00:01:28.140 align:middle line:90% who is holiness. 00:01:28.140 --> 00:01:31.440 align:middle line:84% Only moving their lips then taking that joy within them. 00:01:31.440 --> 00:01:36.150 align:middle line:84% Hand warmers, sensors working all day in the fields. 00:01:36.150 --> 00:01:40.140 align:middle line:84% Still asthmatic, not completely whole, I stumble in my shorts 00:01:40.140 --> 00:01:41.400 align:middle line:90% from window to window. 00:01:41.400 --> 00:01:44.280 align:middle line:84% To be sure the neighbors are still asleep. 00:01:44.280 --> 00:01:46.140 align:middle line:90% Kings in their rich jails. 00:01:46.140 --> 00:01:49.200 align:middle line:84% That the bulbous car out front is still comatose. 00:01:49.200 --> 00:01:51.480 align:middle line:84% Like the silverware on the drain board. 00:01:51.480 --> 00:01:53.820 align:middle line:84% Not having started itself up, become 00:01:53.820 --> 00:01:57.900 align:middle line:84% excited with ideas for foreign travel. 00:01:57.900 --> 00:02:01.170 align:middle line:84% That takes a while, checking everything out. 00:02:01.170 --> 00:02:04.603 align:middle line:84% As difficult as the concerned young doctor curing sclerosis. 00:02:04.603 --> 00:02:06.270 align:middle line:84% Trying not to fall in love with the girl 00:02:06.270 --> 00:02:09.449 align:middle line:84% because he knows her parents trust him. 00:02:09.449 --> 00:02:10.870 align:middle line:90% Actually there's no stopping it. 00:02:10.870 --> 00:02:15.430 align:middle line:84% And by the time I've made my 12 or 13 round here comes the sun. 00:02:15.430 --> 00:02:18.330 align:middle line:84% Daytime ghost having fun throwing off his robes. 00:02:18.330 --> 00:02:20.430 align:middle line:84% His onion eye peeling and peeling off 00:02:20.430 --> 00:02:25.110 align:middle line:84% opalescent rings of fire as it peaks up over the mountains. 00:02:25.110 --> 00:02:27.690 align:middle line:84% And that first light inspired or frightened, 00:02:27.690 --> 00:02:29.040 align:middle line:90% I rush in to see you. 00:02:29.040 --> 00:02:31.425 align:middle line:84% Suffer quiescent, lying there summa 00:02:31.425 --> 00:02:35.460 align:middle line:84% cum laude in the sheets among your blonde hair as on tiptoes. 00:02:35.460 --> 00:02:38.370 align:middle line:84% The little dog runs along, paws stretched up 00:02:38.370 --> 00:02:39.870 align:middle line:90% on the edge of the bed. 00:02:39.870 --> 00:02:43.890 align:middle line:84% A pianist, hair slicked back playing a huge piano. 00:02:43.890 --> 00:02:46.920 align:middle line:84% A picaridin entails trying to out distance the desire. 00:02:46.920 --> 00:02:48.450 align:middle line:90% Speeding back and forth. 00:02:48.450 --> 00:02:50.280 align:middle line:84% Eating a great ear of corn as one 00:02:50.280 --> 00:02:52.110 align:middle line:84% see sometimes in the comic strips. 00:02:52.110 --> 00:02:55.090 align:middle line:90% 00:02:55.090 --> 00:02:57.960 align:middle line:84% When eye opens and though panting, 00:02:57.960 --> 00:03:02.580 align:middle line:84% he listens for a moment then begins playing your requests. 00:03:02.580 --> 00:03:04.950 align:middle line:90% The moonlight Sonata. 00:03:04.950 --> 00:03:09.060 align:middle line:84% Something from the sound of music. 00:03:09.060 --> 00:03:12.600 align:middle line:84% A bit rushed perhaps, but as fresh, as beautiful, 00:03:12.600 --> 00:03:16.500 align:middle line:84% as their composer's first heard them before writing them down. 00:03:16.500 --> 00:03:17.000 align:middle line:90%