WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.430 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read a poem called "Take Me 00:00:02.430 --> 00:00:05.010 align:middle line:84% to the Godfish," which, according 00:00:05.010 --> 00:00:07.080 align:middle line:84% to the notes at the back of the book, 00:00:07.080 --> 00:00:13.440 align:middle line:84% is "Take Me to the Goldfish", and it's an error 00:00:13.440 --> 00:00:15.870 align:middle line:84% that a mean reviewer pointed out. 00:00:15.870 --> 00:00:17.370 align:middle line:84% But, it is "Take Me to the Godfish". 00:00:17.370 --> 00:00:20.220 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.220 --> 00:00:22.470 align:middle line:84% And it's in the same vein as "Minotaur", which 00:00:22.470 --> 00:00:29.910 align:middle line:84% is sort of a angry, itchy, proto-Dionysian vein. 00:00:29.910 --> 00:00:32.759 align:middle line:90% "Take Me to the Godfish". 00:00:32.759 --> 00:00:38.520 align:middle line:84% Roaring clover, in my torso of stars, I killed it. 00:00:38.520 --> 00:00:41.520 align:middle line:84% Ravaged it, like a white torn river-- 00:00:41.520 --> 00:00:44.970 align:middle line:84% I couldn't breathe, so I killed it. 00:00:44.970 --> 00:00:45.880 align:middle line:90% I was excited. 00:00:45.880 --> 00:00:47.850 align:middle line:90% I couldn't breathe. 00:00:47.850 --> 00:00:52.740 align:middle line:84% Standing up like the hair on your darker than anything. 00:00:52.740 --> 00:00:55.890 align:middle line:84% Came to be rosy, not to be careful. 00:00:55.890 --> 00:00:56.730 align:middle line:90% Came to be quickly. 00:00:56.730 --> 00:00:59.160 align:middle line:90% Came to be stopped. 00:00:59.160 --> 00:01:03.030 align:middle line:84% To know this thing was in me, they sold maps to my grounds. 00:01:03.030 --> 00:01:06.690 align:middle line:84% Squeezed down jack thing had not come all the way. 00:01:06.690 --> 00:01:11.440 align:middle line:84% While they talked freak, look out at bites, I feasted. 00:01:11.440 --> 00:01:12.580 align:middle line:90% I said, flagellum. 00:01:12.580 --> 00:01:15.280 align:middle line:90% They said, we feel some concern. 00:01:15.280 --> 00:01:16.510 align:middle line:90% You were told, weren't you? 00:01:16.510 --> 00:01:17.080 align:middle line:90% No. 00:01:17.080 --> 00:01:18.940 align:middle line:90% No one said a word. 00:01:18.940 --> 00:01:24.190 align:middle line:84% How many ounces of poison go into a symposium? 00:01:24.190 --> 00:01:26.740 align:middle line:90% Hauled ass in my Unimog. 00:01:26.740 --> 00:01:30.070 align:middle line:84% Hacked the snooping moon from the side mirror. 00:01:30.070 --> 00:01:33.520 align:middle line:84% Shot the strip back into desert dark. 00:01:33.520 --> 00:01:35.560 align:middle line:84% Gave some Arkansas children matches. 00:01:35.560 --> 00:01:37.810 align:middle line:90% You all have a nice day. 00:01:37.810 --> 00:01:41.485 align:middle line:84% Killed three sexophones-- the holes of each complete. 00:01:41.485 --> 00:01:44.200 align:middle line:90% 00:01:44.200 --> 00:01:45.850 align:middle line:90% The heart of fathers fly. 00:01:45.850 --> 00:01:50.130 align:middle line:90% Whacked that, it was sweet. 00:01:50.130 --> 00:01:54.540 align:middle line:84% I was eight California condors tearing up her bed clothes. 00:01:54.540 --> 00:01:56.220 align:middle line:90% Gassed the zoos. 00:01:56.220 --> 00:01:58.380 align:middle line:90% Virused the environmentalists. 00:01:58.380 --> 00:02:04.405 align:middle line:84% Played "You Began" on a cockroach colored violin. 00:02:04.405 --> 00:02:06.450 align:middle line:90% Oh, who remembers what I was? 00:02:06.450 --> 00:02:08.910 align:middle line:90% Anyhow, I began. 00:02:08.910 --> 00:02:12.640 align:middle line:84% Looked for the address all morning, laughing and talking. 00:02:12.640 --> 00:02:15.530 align:middle line:90% Wretch, wretch.