WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.270 align:middle line:84% I asked Frances if I could read the next poem, which 00:00:06.270 --> 00:00:09.390 align:middle line:84% one of my friends found a little scandalous. 00:00:09.390 --> 00:00:10.950 align:middle line:84% And she said I could, but she doesn't 00:00:10.950 --> 00:00:12.250 align:middle line:90% know what's in the poem. 00:00:12.250 --> 00:00:14.610 align:middle line:90% So don't hold it against her. 00:00:14.610 --> 00:00:16.290 align:middle line:84% All right, there are a number of poems 00:00:16.290 --> 00:00:20.880 align:middle line:84% in the new collection which have "letter" in the title, 00:00:20.880 --> 00:00:25.795 align:middle line:84% I'm not sure why, and color modifications. 00:00:25.795 --> 00:00:28.170 align:middle line:84% This one is called "The Pink Letter," and you'll see why. 00:00:28.170 --> 00:00:30.700 align:middle line:90% 00:00:30.700 --> 00:00:31.970 align:middle line:90% And again, it's a hybrid. 00:00:31.970 --> 00:00:36.190 align:middle line:84% It's a mixture of prose and verse lines, 00:00:36.190 --> 00:00:40.150 align:middle line:84% and you may be able to hear the switches. 00:00:40.150 --> 00:00:43.000 align:middle line:84% "Sore and out of pink with local points, 00:00:43.000 --> 00:00:46.480 align:middle line:84% like a pause in conversation when the last words suddenly 00:00:46.480 --> 00:00:48.970 align:middle line:84% hear themselves sticking out of thought, 00:00:48.970 --> 00:00:51.790 align:middle line:84% with a deep disquiet because she knew Medusa 00:00:51.790 --> 00:00:54.730 align:middle line:90% looked very much like herself. 00:00:54.730 --> 00:00:58.870 align:middle line:84% I call on the pussy I know I have somewhere, yes, on you 00:00:58.870 --> 00:01:03.100 align:middle line:84% dear, to lift me from myself like a pink flamingo. 00:01:03.100 --> 00:01:06.580 align:middle line:84% And you do, except when you're being a cunt. 00:01:06.580 --> 00:01:09.970 align:middle line:84% Then you're like the beggar who stands in front of the Rheims 00:01:09.970 --> 00:01:10.540 align:middle line:90% Cathedral. 00:01:10.540 --> 00:01:13.030 align:middle line:84% I think that's you that ignores the tourists 00:01:13.030 --> 00:01:14.620 align:middle line:84% and asks for something, anything, 00:01:14.620 --> 00:01:17.080 align:middle line:84% from the three Gothic doors stiffed straight 00:01:17.080 --> 00:01:20.560 align:middle line:90% up like punk hair. 00:01:20.560 --> 00:01:22.540 align:middle line:84% The off the shoulder look in my eyes, 00:01:22.540 --> 00:01:25.150 align:middle line:84% you know it isn't like meals and minutes. 00:01:25.150 --> 00:01:27.400 align:middle line:90% It's a long time coming. 00:01:27.400 --> 00:01:31.270 align:middle line:84% Be in me always like the grand, multiplexed sound 00:01:31.270 --> 00:01:36.250 align:middle line:84% of a waterfall edge in Canada, the caribou all the time 00:01:36.250 --> 00:01:42.880 align:middle line:84% rushing over your head like a thin wash of thunder sienna. 00:01:42.880 --> 00:01:46.810 align:middle line:84% If instead art should go all tragique 00:01:46.810 --> 00:01:50.770 align:middle line:84% and send us back to the darkest part of the spirit that created 00:01:50.770 --> 00:01:55.060 align:middle line:84% it, and permit illuminations only through that darkness, 00:01:55.060 --> 00:01:56.560 align:middle line:90% I want your pink wine. 00:01:56.560 --> 00:01:59.620 align:middle line:84% I want you to meet me a stranger in the woods. 00:01:59.620 --> 00:02:03.280 align:middle line:84% That's OK, like having one's ass licked all day 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:06.250 align:middle line:90% by Poseidon's marine saliva. 00:02:06.250 --> 00:02:09.430 align:middle line:84% After all, one has to touch somebody 00:02:09.430 --> 00:02:11.800 align:middle line:90% in order to begin to die. 00:02:11.800 --> 00:02:14.560 align:middle line:84% Start with pink of child on a purple bike. 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:20.570 align:middle line:84% Stand on the pedals on the downstroke like angry brushwork 00:02:20.570 --> 00:02:24.260 align:middle line:84% till you've caressed figure after figure once charmed 00:02:24.260 --> 00:02:27.995 align:middle line:84% within the picture, people washing down medicine river. 00:02:27.995 --> 00:02:30.760 align:middle line:90% 00:02:30.760 --> 00:02:32.920 align:middle line:84% Trekking from this page to the next 00:02:32.920 --> 00:02:37.630 align:middle line:84% is a way to avoid a lightning return to the archaic. 00:02:37.630 --> 00:02:39.640 align:middle line:84% But what I have in mind, regardless, 00:02:39.640 --> 00:02:42.100 align:middle line:84% is the discharge of radioactive isotopes, 00:02:42.100 --> 00:02:45.550 align:middle line:84% not the metaphor of beauty as a constant and considered 00:02:45.550 --> 00:02:47.320 align:middle line:90% goodness. 00:02:47.320 --> 00:02:50.980 align:middle line:84% Creativity is the pussy of the morning, 00:02:50.980 --> 00:02:54.490 align:middle line:84% racing along with its black leathery bird beak, 00:02:54.490 --> 00:02:57.550 align:middle line:84% drinking the wind until the accident. 00:02:57.550 --> 00:03:00.200 align:middle line:90% 00:03:00.200 --> 00:03:03.560 align:middle line:84% I dislike the way he walked up to her as if she were water, 00:03:03.560 --> 00:03:06.650 align:middle line:84% water in a pot hole, water all things 00:03:06.650 --> 00:03:10.250 align:middle line:84% come slapdash to the unknown of the road. 00:03:10.250 --> 00:03:13.130 align:middle line:84% Hadn't I known her when she left for a year 00:03:13.130 --> 00:03:16.200 align:middle line:84% to live in a telescope with June? 00:03:16.200 --> 00:03:18.240 align:middle line:90% She was sensitive about it. 00:03:18.240 --> 00:03:21.210 align:middle line:84% My pupil was terrifying, probably, 00:03:21.210 --> 00:03:25.970 align:middle line:84% and the light practically ate too much of her."