WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.890 align:middle line:84% And a poem in a similar vein, back in Candy Necklace, 00:00:07.890 --> 00:00:08.675 align:middle line:90% on page 25-- 00:00:08.675 --> 00:00:10.800 align:middle line:84% I see a few of you have the copy of the text called 00:00:10.800 --> 00:00:13.890 align:middle line:90% The Wild Troops of Proportion. 00:00:13.890 --> 00:00:16.710 align:middle line:90% "The Wild Troops of Proportion." 00:00:16.710 --> 00:00:19.410 align:middle line:84% Oh, the little that was all attention to be more, 00:00:19.410 --> 00:00:21.450 align:middle line:90% is it still all attention? 00:00:21.450 --> 00:00:23.250 align:middle line:90% To be more? 00:00:23.250 --> 00:00:27.870 align:middle line:84% Still the shaky hunter in the too early morning cold. 00:00:27.870 --> 00:00:32.100 align:middle line:84% The stream, upon the canvas, would go anywhere down, green, 00:00:32.100 --> 00:00:33.270 align:middle line:90% or blue. 00:00:33.270 --> 00:00:38.340 align:middle line:84% But is never anywhere salmon bake poured out true? 00:00:38.340 --> 00:00:40.470 align:middle line:84% Oh, prowls, oh, loves your blue collar 00:00:40.470 --> 00:00:42.870 align:middle line:84% blood is part of someone living and refusing 00:00:42.870 --> 00:00:45.090 align:middle line:90% to dig a shallow hole. 00:00:45.090 --> 00:00:46.830 align:middle line:90% You have your rights. 00:00:46.830 --> 00:00:49.530 align:middle line:84% If the four winds fold the sky like a flag, 00:00:49.530 --> 00:00:51.360 align:middle line:90% don't take it from their hands. 00:00:51.360 --> 00:00:52.890 align:middle line:90% You say when. 00:00:52.890 --> 00:00:55.830 align:middle line:90% 00:00:55.830 --> 00:00:58.890 align:middle line:84% In a labor camp, would you write a poem on your soap 00:00:58.890 --> 00:01:02.220 align:middle line:90% with the matchstick, or wash? 00:01:02.220 --> 00:01:03.660 align:middle line:90% Don't wash. 00:01:03.660 --> 00:01:04.769 align:middle line:90% You are women. 00:01:04.769 --> 00:01:06.450 align:middle line:90% You are men. 00:01:06.450 --> 00:01:08.790 align:middle line:90% Isn't man wonderful? 00:01:08.790 --> 00:01:11.940 align:middle line:84% He longed so much to speak his heart-- mm-- 00:01:11.940 --> 00:01:14.970 align:middle line:84% that he taught himself language-- mm-- 00:01:14.970 --> 00:01:16.770 align:middle line:90% so that what was inside him-- 00:01:16.770 --> 00:01:20.660 align:middle line:84% mm-- could be spoken to the world. 00:01:20.660 --> 00:01:23.260 align:middle line:84% So what if you once counted nothing 00:01:23.260 --> 00:01:28.180 align:middle line:84% on your fingers, ten infinities, and now only ten? 00:01:28.180 --> 00:01:31.450 align:middle line:84% Prowls, would you be as a cow that stands on four t-bones 00:01:31.450 --> 00:01:33.550 align:middle line:84% and sings with la voix sacrée de la terre ingénue? 00:01:33.550 --> 00:01:37.040 align:middle line:90% 00:01:37.040 --> 00:01:38.910 align:middle line:90% Loves, you can get-- 00:01:38.910 --> 00:01:42.470 align:middle line:90% mm-- to 11. 00:01:42.470 --> 00:01:46.850 align:middle line:84% History, you say, is of us and against us. 00:01:46.850 --> 00:01:50.900 align:middle line:84% From whose breast we go houseless, provoked-- 00:01:50.900 --> 00:01:53.240 align:middle line:90% yes, we are provoked. 00:01:53.240 --> 00:01:56.060 align:middle line:84% The list of shit jobs is too long. 00:01:56.060 --> 00:01:59.000 align:middle line:84% Tidying the camps while the inmates stare from fences 00:01:59.000 --> 00:02:01.550 align:middle line:84% they still cling to as their own. 00:02:01.550 --> 00:02:04.280 align:middle line:84% Tossing bodies into pits where they bounce, 00:02:04.280 --> 00:02:07.700 align:middle line:84% as if gaily, before settling down. 00:02:07.700 --> 00:02:12.230 align:middle line:84% History, you horror, portioned to a giant nerve, 00:02:12.230 --> 00:02:15.530 align:middle line:90% we've got your smell down cold. 00:02:15.530 --> 00:02:16.760 align:middle line:90% And we won't. 00:02:16.760 --> 00:02:20.550 align:middle line:90% We won't settle down. 00:02:20.550 --> 00:02:23.370 align:middle line:84% I am gone away from my own bosom. 00:02:23.370 --> 00:02:26.430 align:middle line:84% Yes, there must be gods thrown down 00:02:26.430 --> 00:02:30.690 align:middle line:84% and hymns a festival upon the gold clouds metropolitan. 00:02:30.690 --> 00:02:34.170 align:middle line:84% Voices of soft proclaim, beautiful things 00:02:34.170 --> 00:02:37.380 align:middle line:84% made new for the surprise of the sky children. 00:02:37.380 --> 00:02:38.760 align:middle line:90% Oh, women. 00:02:38.760 --> 00:02:39.750 align:middle line:90% Oh, men. 00:02:39.750 --> 00:02:42.060 align:middle line:90% Is it a day will not be a sum? 00:02:42.060 --> 00:02:45.360 align:middle line:90% The sign at the exit says exit. 00:02:45.360 --> 00:02:46.890 align:middle line:90% Are you resigned? 00:02:46.890 --> 00:02:49.950 align:middle line:90% Full of o'erwise phlegm? 00:02:49.950 --> 00:02:53.970 align:middle line:84% Spit it into this cuspidor I hand around. 00:02:53.970 --> 00:02:57.690 align:middle line:84% Bang the saloons swing doors on your way out. 00:02:57.690 --> 00:03:03.050 align:middle line:84% Bitty things, with what are they in proportion?