WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.500 align:middle line:84% And the next poem is called "You Can 00:00:01.500 --> 00:00:04.140 align:middle line:84% Be the Subject of Wild Admiration in Ten Days" 00:00:04.140 --> 00:00:07.770 align:middle line:84% and the title is not from the back, from an ad 00:00:07.770 --> 00:00:09.720 align:middle line:84% at the back of some sleazy magazine. 00:00:09.720 --> 00:00:12.360 align:middle line:90% It is from Gertrude Stein. 00:00:12.360 --> 00:00:17.580 align:middle line:84% "You Could Be the Subject of Wild Admiration in Ten Days," 00:00:17.580 --> 00:00:23.940 align:middle line:84% and that's addressed to whoever, something like a muse. 00:00:23.940 --> 00:00:27.360 align:middle line:84% "You could be terribly well put together. 00:00:27.360 --> 00:00:30.480 align:middle line:90% The land has an eye to you. 00:00:30.480 --> 00:00:33.000 align:middle line:84% You're the very spirit of geography. 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:33.960 align:middle line:90% Don't fidget. 00:00:33.960 --> 00:00:36.210 align:middle line:84% Don't go striding above me, air spider. 00:00:36.210 --> 00:00:38.250 align:middle line:90% Sit and talk away the evening. 00:00:38.250 --> 00:00:39.600 align:middle line:90% It's so hot. 00:00:39.600 --> 00:00:43.530 align:middle line:84% When you spread your robe, it's so hot. 00:00:43.530 --> 00:00:45.030 align:middle line:84% You're the very spirit of occasions 00:00:45.030 --> 00:00:47.160 align:middle line:90% do skateboard about me. 00:00:47.160 --> 00:00:47.910 align:middle line:90% Brilliant. 00:00:47.910 --> 00:00:50.280 align:middle line:90% Intensely desirable. 00:00:50.280 --> 00:00:51.720 align:middle line:90% Are you listening? 00:00:51.720 --> 00:00:55.560 align:middle line:84% Your lipstick like a watermelon split open on the rocks. 00:00:55.560 --> 00:00:56.700 align:middle line:90% Don't fidget. 00:00:56.700 --> 00:00:58.140 align:middle line:90% Say what you feel. 00:00:58.140 --> 00:01:00.600 align:middle line:90% You'll like it. 00:01:00.600 --> 00:01:02.910 align:middle line:84% Sustained notes, however, are out. 00:01:02.910 --> 00:01:07.080 align:middle line:84% Their age, size, hunting dogs, and code locations all 00:01:07.080 --> 00:01:10.770 align:middle line:84% dropped down like the hanged, whose many friends 00:01:10.770 --> 00:01:14.130 align:middle line:84% run to tug on their legs, they're that kind. 00:01:14.130 --> 00:01:17.280 align:middle line:84% Go with feathers in the mouth, like the cat. 00:01:17.280 --> 00:01:20.540 align:middle line:90% It's called making it funky. 00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:24.200 align:middle line:84% No, no, it's not for the lute to repeat. 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:26.990 align:middle line:84% As I was saying, you're the understated darling 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:28.550 align:middle line:90% of distances. 00:01:28.550 --> 00:01:29.480 align:middle line:90% Eve. 00:01:29.480 --> 00:01:30.680 align:middle line:90% Evening. 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:32.240 align:middle line:90% Evocative. 00:01:32.240 --> 00:01:34.490 align:middle line:84% Sit here with the bucket in your lap, 00:01:34.490 --> 00:01:37.760 align:middle line:84% hork if you must, but hush your sobbing. 00:01:37.760 --> 00:01:40.520 align:middle line:84% Your chair throbs like a vibrator. 00:01:40.520 --> 00:01:44.210 align:middle line:84% If my breath stinks of a hired gun, love me for it, 00:01:44.210 --> 00:01:47.900 align:middle line:84% I could clear the prairie of hostiles. 00:01:47.900 --> 00:01:50.510 align:middle line:90% What, you wander off? 00:01:50.510 --> 00:01:52.780 align:middle line:90% After all I've said? 00:01:52.780 --> 00:01:55.090 align:middle line:84% I've met up with your kind before. 00:01:55.090 --> 00:01:57.850 align:middle line:90% I attract it even. 00:01:57.850 --> 00:02:02.470 align:middle line:84% Anyway, earth colors don't look good on you, do you know? 00:02:02.470 --> 00:02:06.400 align:middle line:84% And death, that fetishist, brings a dew slipper 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:09.889 align:middle line:84% the exact size of your treacherous foot. 00:02:09.889 --> 00:02:13.960 align:middle line:84% And after I had you where you smelled so good."