WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.530 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.530 --> 00:00:03.300 align:middle line:90% So those are from the new book. 00:00:03.300 --> 00:00:06.090 align:middle line:90% And I'm going to close up with-- 00:00:06.090 --> 00:00:08.530 align:middle line:84% [TRAIN WHISTLE BLOWS IN THE DISTANCE] 00:00:08.530 --> 00:00:11.460 align:middle line:90% 00:00:11.460 --> 00:00:12.420 align:middle line:90% Is that a train? 00:00:12.420 --> 00:00:13.260 align:middle line:90% I love this. 00:00:13.260 --> 00:00:15.210 align:middle line:84% I love that I grew up next to a train, 00:00:15.210 --> 00:00:18.720 align:middle line:90% it is very centering to me. 00:00:18.720 --> 00:00:20.538 align:middle line:84% This is the last one in this book. 00:00:20.538 --> 00:00:22.830 align:middle line:84% And this is the one where I got the title for the book. 00:00:22.830 --> 00:00:24.538 align:middle line:84% This one's called "The Plight of Lovers." 00:00:24.538 --> 00:00:26.930 align:middle line:90% 00:00:26.930 --> 00:00:30.890 align:middle line:84% You came to my body in my wildest grief. 00:00:30.890 --> 00:00:34.040 align:middle line:90% Drunk in it, I welcomed you. 00:00:34.040 --> 00:00:36.890 align:middle line:84% There were catastrophes, I needed to explore, 00:00:36.890 --> 00:00:40.150 align:middle line:90% you contained them all. 00:00:40.150 --> 00:00:42.430 align:middle line:84% When you lap the well of my blood 00:00:42.430 --> 00:00:45.430 align:middle line:84% milky and flowing near the river and sugar cane fields, 00:00:45.430 --> 00:00:52.960 align:middle line:84% you drink to my mother and hers the lovers each they had. 00:00:52.960 --> 00:00:55.930 align:middle line:90% This is the dowry. 00:00:55.930 --> 00:00:58.060 align:middle line:90% This is the lot. 00:00:58.060 --> 00:01:02.260 align:middle line:84% The only child I will give you is myself. 00:01:02.260 --> 00:01:07.060 align:middle line:84% Be worthy, I have eaten the rattlesnake. 00:01:07.060 --> 00:01:08.800 align:middle line:84% Thank you all very much for having me. 00:01:08.800 --> 00:01:12.728 align:middle line:90% [CHEERING AND CLAPPING] 00:01:12.728 --> 00:01:14.210 align:middle line:90% 00:01:14.210 --> 00:01:16.270 align:middle line:90% Thank you very much. 00:01:16.270 --> 00:01:25.000 align:middle line:90%