WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.874 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:02.874 --> 00:00:11.020 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.020 --> 00:00:12.535 align:middle line:90% Buenas tardes, Tucson. 00:00:12.535 --> 00:00:15.250 align:middle line:90% 00:00:15.250 --> 00:00:18.530 align:middle line:90% Tijuana, back in the house. 00:00:18.530 --> 00:00:22.280 align:middle line:84% Man, I haven't seen you folks for a long time. 00:00:22.280 --> 00:00:28.788 align:middle line:84% This is my first reading in two years. 00:00:28.788 --> 00:00:29.830 align:middle line:90% Yeah, I'm going to choke. 00:00:29.830 --> 00:00:31.840 align:middle line:90% No, I'll be all right. 00:00:31.840 --> 00:00:34.270 align:middle line:90% But Cindy, my beloved-- 00:00:34.270 --> 00:00:35.380 align:middle line:90% you all know Cindy. 00:00:35.380 --> 00:00:38.123 align:middle line:84% She said, since this is your first reading in a long time, 00:00:38.123 --> 00:00:39.290 align:middle line:90% you've got to get a picture. 00:00:39.290 --> 00:00:42.370 align:middle line:84% So we're going to take a picture, right? 00:00:42.370 --> 00:00:44.560 align:middle line:84% It's going to go in the memory book. 00:00:44.560 --> 00:00:45.160 align:middle line:90% Let's see. 00:00:45.160 --> 00:00:48.410 align:middle line:84% I do this sometimes at the festival, but-- 00:00:48.410 --> 00:00:49.730 align:middle line:90% all right, everybody smile. 00:00:49.730 --> 00:00:50.700 align:middle line:90% Let's see. 00:00:50.700 --> 00:00:52.850 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:52.850 --> 00:00:55.500 align:middle line:90% That way. 00:00:55.500 --> 00:00:57.450 align:middle line:90% This always embarrasses my kids. 00:00:57.450 --> 00:00:59.370 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:59.370 --> 00:01:00.980 align:middle line:90% There we go. 00:01:00.980 --> 00:01:06.860 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:06.860 --> 00:01:10.270 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHS] Thank you for coming. 00:01:10.270 --> 00:01:13.120 align:middle line:90% A lot has changed, of course. 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:14.290 align:middle line:90% I'm a grandpa now. 00:01:14.290 --> 00:01:17.380 align:middle line:90% So, yeah, it's good stuff. 00:01:17.380 --> 00:01:19.390 align:middle line:90% I like it. 00:01:19.390 --> 00:01:24.760 align:middle line:84% My beard wasn't as white when we went into lockdown, but-- 00:01:24.760 --> 00:01:29.830 align:middle line:84% So I have, they told me, 25 to 40 minutes to talk. 00:01:29.830 --> 00:01:31.870 align:middle line:84% And I want to do some poems with you. 00:01:31.870 --> 00:01:35.800 align:middle line:84% But if you've come to the book festival, 00:01:35.800 --> 00:01:38.380 align:middle line:84% you know that I enjoy also performing 00:01:38.380 --> 00:01:40.180 align:middle line:90% some prose from memory. 00:01:40.180 --> 00:01:45.400 align:middle line:84% And I told Cindy, because poetry is a little serious, 00:01:45.400 --> 00:01:50.590 align:middle line:84% I thought I would do my most uproarious and popular chapter 00:01:50.590 --> 00:01:51.938 align:middle line:90% from House of Broken Angels. 00:01:51.938 --> 00:01:53.480 align:middle line:84% And she said, you've done it already. 00:01:53.480 --> 00:01:54.188 align:middle line:90% They've heard it. 00:01:54.188 --> 00:01:55.930 align:middle line:90% I said, We need to laugh. 00:01:55.930 --> 00:01:57.490 align:middle line:90% Some people haven't heard it. 00:01:57.490 --> 00:02:02.020 align:middle line:90% So I may be retiring it now. 00:02:02.020 --> 00:02:05.290 align:middle line:84% Because when your honey tells you, don't do it, 00:02:05.290 --> 00:02:07.090 align:middle line:90% you've got to do what she says. 00:02:07.090 --> 00:02:09.400 align:middle line:84% Also I just want to say there are 00:02:09.400 --> 00:02:12.850 align:middle line:84% folks from Justice For All outside, collecting 00:02:12.850 --> 00:02:18.080 align:middle line:84% names for justice for migrants, and deportees, and so forth. 00:02:18.080 --> 00:02:23.240 align:middle line:90% So they asked me to say a word. 00:02:23.240 --> 00:02:23.990 align:middle line:90% I said it. 00:02:23.990 --> 00:02:25.580 align:middle line:90% I got a cool t-shirt. 00:02:25.580 --> 00:02:26.910 align:middle line:90% It's good. 00:02:26.910 --> 00:02:29.362 align:middle line:84% So I have a new book I'm putting together of poems. 00:02:29.362 --> 00:02:31.070 align:middle line:84% It's been a little while since I did one. 00:02:31.070 --> 00:02:32.510 align:middle line:90% It's going to be called Piedra. 00:02:32.510 --> 00:02:36.260 align:middle line:84% And Piedra is a book that I was doing years ago, started 00:02:36.260 --> 00:02:37.460 align:middle line:90% when I was here. 00:02:37.460 --> 00:02:40.640 align:middle line:84% I was here working on The Hummingbird's Daughter, 00:02:40.640 --> 00:02:45.260 align:middle line:84% living down at the Elysian Grove Market, down by El Minuto-- 00:02:45.260 --> 00:02:46.220 align:middle line:90% haunted. 00:02:46.220 --> 00:02:50.480 align:middle line:84% And then I moved up here to North Vine, 00:02:50.480 --> 00:02:52.190 align:middle line:90% right by the campus for a while. 00:02:52.190 --> 00:02:56.030 align:middle line:84% Cindy was a reporter at the Tucson Citizen-- 00:02:56.030 --> 00:02:57.410 align:middle line:90% journalism scandal. 00:02:57.410 --> 00:02:59.750 align:middle line:90% Thank you. 00:02:59.750 --> 00:03:01.160 align:middle line:90% And we're very happy. 00:03:01.160 --> 00:03:02.410 align:middle line:90% So--