WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.100 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.100 --> 00:00:11.340 align:middle line:84% Speaking of what this kid could never say, 00:00:11.340 --> 00:00:19.050 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read the long poem from April on Olympia. 00:00:19.050 --> 00:00:26.340 align:middle line:84% It's my homage to Allen Ginsberg and to Allen Ginsberg's Howl, 00:00:26.340 --> 00:00:31.440 align:middle line:84% which I read when I was about 14 years old, and saw him. 00:00:31.440 --> 00:00:35.670 align:middle line:84% I lived in-- grew up in San Jose and would go to San Francisco 00:00:35.670 --> 00:00:36.510 align:middle line:90% to see him. 00:00:36.510 --> 00:00:39.960 align:middle line:90% 00:00:39.960 --> 00:00:42.360 align:middle line:90% So yeah, it's an homage. 00:00:42.360 --> 00:00:43.350 align:middle line:90% It's long. 00:00:43.350 --> 00:00:49.340 align:middle line:90% It's Howl, 2022. 00:00:49.340 --> 00:00:53.580 align:middle line:84% "Destination Anywhere," after Allen Ginsberg-- 00:00:53.580 --> 00:00:57.180 align:middle line:90% 00:00:57.180 --> 00:01:03.480 align:middle line:84% I have watched the best souls of my nation crumpled 00:01:03.480 --> 00:01:11.070 align:middle line:84% in foil against the crumbling brick, barefaced of ivy, 00:01:11.070 --> 00:01:16.800 align:middle line:84% yanked out, cranked out, yodeling their terror 00:01:16.800 --> 00:01:21.840 align:middle line:84% through the cop streets, battered blind of ambition 00:01:21.840 --> 00:01:23.970 align:middle line:90% and terrorless. 00:01:23.970 --> 00:01:31.950 align:middle line:84% One nation, divided under God, in the misunderstanding states 00:01:31.950 --> 00:01:39.350 align:middle line:84% of America, some faraway sea-salt past flaring, 00:01:39.350 --> 00:01:43.490 align:middle line:90% a tattered flag's last gleaming. 00:01:43.490 --> 00:01:45.620 align:middle line:90% Blood on the street! 00:01:45.620 --> 00:01:47.780 align:middle line:90% Blood on the street! 00:01:47.780 --> 00:01:52.760 align:middle line:84% Look at the blood on the street, they 00:01:52.760 --> 00:01:57.230 align:middle line:84% shout at the boarded up ministries of destiny, 00:01:57.230 --> 00:02:04.610 align:middle line:84% while Destiny, a girl with no face, is pregnant with horror. 00:02:04.610 --> 00:02:06.080 align:middle line:90% The faces! 00:02:06.080 --> 00:02:08.330 align:middle line:90% The faces! 00:02:08.330 --> 00:02:15.770 align:middle line:84% Have you ever seen such drunken blue on your blue TV screens? 00:02:15.770 --> 00:02:21.840 align:middle line:84% Nothing is ever yellow but the dead to the poor. 00:02:21.840 --> 00:02:24.720 align:middle line:90% The poor lose wits. 00:02:24.720 --> 00:02:28.950 align:middle line:84% The ocean grows vast with their fears. 00:02:28.950 --> 00:02:33.120 align:middle line:84% They have no more hands in which to relieve 00:02:33.120 --> 00:02:40.380 align:middle line:84% their thirst of themselves, no more feet with which to run. 00:02:40.380 --> 00:02:41.970 align:middle line:90% They are light. 00:02:41.970 --> 00:02:47.850 align:middle line:84% They levitate, snagged on the thought of themselves 00:02:47.850 --> 00:02:53.710 align:middle line:84% at last, the start to the blackening aid. 00:02:53.710 --> 00:02:59.290 align:middle line:84% Follow them, the ones still rowing ashore chained 00:02:59.290 --> 00:03:02.020 align:middle line:90% to the metal or gold. 00:03:02.020 --> 00:03:07.690 align:middle line:84% The streets full of gold, the death markets are busy, 00:03:07.690 --> 00:03:12.310 align:middle line:84% all the engines, their minds at full throttle, 00:03:12.310 --> 00:03:20.740 align:middle line:84% while someone is locked in there, erased and foreign. 00:03:20.740 --> 00:03:27.220 align:middle line:84% Oh, I know you don't know this, they moan in the night. 00:03:27.220 --> 00:03:30.610 align:middle line:84% Their shopping carts rattle, tattle 00:03:30.610 --> 00:03:35.920 align:middle line:84% to the busy hum of the burning computers, inside, 00:03:35.920 --> 00:03:42.490 align:middle line:84% the core dream of freedom ringing in their shot-out ears. 00:03:42.490 --> 00:03:44.590 align:middle line:90% On, freedom! 00:03:44.590 --> 00:03:50.710 align:middle line:84% On past the debilitating, on past the commodity 00:03:50.710 --> 00:03:59.020 align:middle line:84% cheese-fed generations of waste, the telemarketers of addiction, 00:03:59.020 --> 00:04:03.820 align:middle line:90% faces more Indian than not. 00:04:03.820 --> 00:04:08.050 align:middle line:84% The not in the shadows, calling to us 00:04:08.050 --> 00:04:14.840 align:middle line:84% under the mystery tree and their cattle, faces demand. 00:04:14.840 --> 00:04:19.880 align:middle line:84% Their tobaccoless lung and coffee-stained faces 00:04:19.880 --> 00:04:25.580 align:middle line:84% demand more longing fear in blue. 00:04:25.580 --> 00:04:26.930 align:middle line:90% The trees! 00:04:26.930 --> 00:04:28.400 align:middle line:90% The trees! 00:04:28.400 --> 00:04:31.250 align:middle line:90% Why must we level? 00:04:31.250 --> 00:04:38.570 align:middle line:84% Why must we murder the long summer, the vision of one, 00:04:38.570 --> 00:04:46.340 align:middle line:84% the plan, the disaster, the revision of the summit over? 00:04:46.340 --> 00:04:49.940 align:middle line:90% All we are is all. 00:04:49.940 --> 00:04:56.060 align:middle line:84% All we can is a long division of over. 00:04:56.060 --> 00:05:00.350 align:middle line:84% The call and response is overdue, 00:05:00.350 --> 00:05:06.170 align:middle line:84% overpaid to some else, some same destination, 00:05:06.170 --> 00:05:13.220 align:middle line:84% some crossroads, some X on the map to the heart of the matter. 00:05:13.220 --> 00:05:16.730 align:middle line:84% What is the matter with you, catgut 00:05:16.730 --> 00:05:19.820 align:middle line:90% of your sawed-off tongue? 00:05:19.820 --> 00:05:23.060 align:middle line:90% Don't you know who you are? 00:05:23.060 --> 00:05:29.720 align:middle line:84% The pallbearers, the Kaddish speakers, quorum of one, 00:05:29.720 --> 00:05:36.650 align:middle line:84% for you, the you, you speak, fleshless and pure. 00:05:36.650 --> 00:05:40.100 align:middle line:90% We know what we speak. 00:05:40.100 --> 00:05:42.950 align:middle line:90% The dead know well. 00:05:42.950 --> 00:05:47.090 align:middle line:84% We speak to your quarry of one, to the fish 00:05:47.090 --> 00:05:53.300 align:middle line:84% in your belly drinking your spittle, the devein divine 00:05:53.300 --> 00:05:58.160 align:middle line:84% unto the night into kingdom come, 00:05:58.160 --> 00:06:02.270 align:middle line:84% some lost longing, sour trudging, 00:06:02.270 --> 00:06:06.290 align:middle line:84% the war done, some lost languages 00:06:06.290 --> 00:06:10.880 align:middle line:84% trailing behind with their bleeding teats, 00:06:10.880 --> 00:06:16.910 align:middle line:84% trudging nigh on the white horse in a chant and fire. 00:06:16.910 --> 00:06:19.640 align:middle line:90% Some long into it. 00:06:19.640 --> 00:06:25.760 align:middle line:84% Some show some slow download to what do you, 00:06:25.760 --> 00:06:30.460 align:middle line:84% had the speed and software been true. 00:06:30.460 --> 00:06:37.330 align:middle line:84% There is a place that mater's sick between the arms, 00:06:37.330 --> 00:06:43.810 align:middle line:84% the bruised hip and less the lip, some full mouth 00:06:43.810 --> 00:06:47.680 align:middle line:84% filing, some shutting up, but not 00:06:47.680 --> 00:06:53.410 align:middle line:84% to say there will never be enough words of love 00:06:53.410 --> 00:06:56.200 align:middle line:90% for their tattered remains. 00:06:56.200 --> 00:06:58.990 align:middle line:90% What remains? 00:06:58.990 --> 00:07:03.580 align:middle line:84% They stay in vermilion sunset but don't 00:07:03.580 --> 00:07:07.480 align:middle line:90% know that word or its meaning. 00:07:07.480 --> 00:07:15.760 align:middle line:84% Flashing the maw, they loss for no one, for no one knows them. 00:07:15.760 --> 00:07:21.610 align:middle line:84% They talk to shoes searching for pennies, some slot to pick, 00:07:21.610 --> 00:07:24.550 align:middle line:90% some farthing to travel to. 00:07:24.550 --> 00:07:31.810 align:middle line:84% But it's a long good-bye, and it's the wrong day to go. 00:07:31.810 --> 00:07:37.030 align:middle line:84% And the banks are closed to crowd at river's way 00:07:37.030 --> 00:07:40.720 align:middle line:90% to those who walk. 00:07:40.720 --> 00:07:44.800 align:middle line:84% The shadows on the goddamned Golden Bridge 00:07:44.800 --> 00:07:52.570 align:middle line:84% know the goddamned way, facing home on a long dare, 00:07:52.570 --> 00:07:55.420 align:middle line:90% love gone long. 00:07:55.420 --> 00:07:59.770 align:middle line:84% Always laughing, their speech lacking syllables, 00:07:59.770 --> 00:08:02.650 align:middle line:84% they speak gibberish, but it's OK. 00:08:02.650 --> 00:08:05.170 align:middle line:90% No one's listening. 00:08:05.170 --> 00:08:10.930 align:middle line:84% Always longing, their hearts in their beer-cupped hands, 00:08:10.930 --> 00:08:17.270 align:middle line:84% the ones they still have stuffed deep in their empty, 00:08:17.270 --> 00:08:20.090 align:middle line:90% they speak for themselves. 00:08:20.090 --> 00:08:24.680 align:middle line:84% They have a long row to hoe, counting 00:08:24.680 --> 00:08:29.610 align:middle line:84% on North for fishes, broken grammar, 00:08:29.610 --> 00:08:36.690 align:middle line:84% the loathing of their constant labor, their arduous loving. 00:08:36.690 --> 00:08:40.860 align:middle line:84% They are all about themselves, stumbling. 00:08:40.860 --> 00:08:44.850 align:middle line:84% The day is a dare in the malls of the dogs 00:08:44.850 --> 00:08:49.920 align:middle line:84% who look in smudged windows at the shows of tomorrow 00:08:49.920 --> 00:08:55.260 align:middle line:84% but do not see them or speak our language, dry 00:08:55.260 --> 00:08:58.320 align:middle line:90% as it is with gravel. 00:08:58.320 --> 00:09:00.240 align:middle line:90% They are mute. 00:09:00.240 --> 00:09:06.240 align:middle line:84% Their slack jaws are full of stuff, stuck eggs. 00:09:06.240 --> 00:09:08.910 align:middle line:90% They get away with it, too. 00:09:08.910 --> 00:09:12.870 align:middle line:84% The ones we don't shoot get beaten. 00:09:12.870 --> 00:09:16.560 align:middle line:84% They kick away and just get beaten 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:20.550 align:middle line:90% until they are shot up with it. 00:09:20.550 --> 00:09:22.050 align:middle line:90% The horror! 00:09:22.050 --> 00:09:23.910 align:middle line:90% The horror! 00:09:23.910 --> 00:09:31.090 align:middle line:84% The horror we speak, but it has no referent to the yearless 00:09:31.090 --> 00:09:31.590 align:middle line:90% earless. 00:09:31.590 --> 00:09:36.390 align:middle line:90% 00:09:36.390 --> 00:09:41.130 align:middle line:84% I have known the far-off best minds, 00:09:41.130 --> 00:09:45.570 align:middle line:84% the lines of spittle oozing down their noses 00:09:45.570 --> 00:09:49.170 align:middle line:84% like from the mummified tannery janitor who 00:09:49.170 --> 00:09:54.660 align:middle line:84% works all day for a dime, allergic to peaches, 00:09:54.660 --> 00:09:59.550 align:middle line:84% whose hands are red though their skins are black. 00:09:59.550 --> 00:10:04.590 align:middle line:84% They write poetry to each other in the muted dark, 00:10:04.590 --> 00:10:11.440 align:middle line:84% there in their curtainless windows, revealing their hide. 00:10:11.440 --> 00:10:15.700 align:middle line:84% They speak to no one, frantically pumping 00:10:15.700 --> 00:10:19.120 align:middle line:90% Ganesha's tusk into their loin. 00:10:19.120 --> 00:10:21.430 align:middle line:90% There, they are certain. 00:10:21.430 --> 00:10:25.960 align:middle line:84% They duckwalk, zigzag in their flopping shoes, 00:10:25.960 --> 00:10:29.320 align:middle line:84% in their flopping soles, their mouths 00:10:29.320 --> 00:10:35.440 align:middle line:84% pursed in a circular O, the silos of mystery 00:10:35.440 --> 00:10:38.200 align:middle line:90% sealed from their kiss. 00:10:38.200 --> 00:10:43.060 align:middle line:84% Their souls are dingy damage in the light. 00:10:43.060 --> 00:10:44.290 align:middle line:90% The light! 00:10:44.290 --> 00:10:46.180 align:middle line:90% The light! 00:10:46.180 --> 00:10:48.910 align:middle line:90% I have seen the light. 00:10:48.910 --> 00:10:51.160 align:middle line:90% I have seen them. 00:10:51.160 --> 00:10:59.680 align:middle line:84% They speak, but it wasn't at us, not we, not the indivisible. 00:10:59.680 --> 00:11:05.110 align:middle line:84% They walk the waking streets, reeking of popcorn 00:11:05.110 --> 00:11:08.950 align:middle line:84% and white chocolate, the poop on the street 00:11:08.950 --> 00:11:12.640 align:middle line:90% ubiquitous and chalky. 00:11:12.640 --> 00:11:15.160 align:middle line:90% They scatter shot easily. 00:11:15.160 --> 00:11:17.560 align:middle line:90% Their minds have been elsewhere. 00:11:17.560 --> 00:11:22.900 align:middle line:84% It's all they know of flushing, now flashing, 00:11:22.900 --> 00:11:27.640 align:middle line:84% the back-up slapping, the little Brown girl begging 00:11:27.640 --> 00:11:31.420 align:middle line:84% for coin again to sell the painted rock, 00:11:31.420 --> 00:11:35.410 align:middle line:84% its perfect rows chipped off in the fall. 00:11:35.410 --> 00:11:39.660 align:middle line:90% That girl is me. 00:11:39.660 --> 00:11:42.810 align:middle line:84% That woman never recovered waiting for a man 00:11:42.810 --> 00:11:48.480 align:middle line:84% to take her away to some pain, save of the heart's delight, 00:11:48.480 --> 00:11:51.570 align:middle line:90% some valley of craw. 00:11:51.570 --> 00:11:56.220 align:middle line:84% Lo, that I might see you, they pray 00:11:56.220 --> 00:12:01.470 align:middle line:84% to each other in the red alleys of the demeaning seats. 00:12:01.470 --> 00:12:04.590 align:middle line:90% They live where they can. 00:12:04.590 --> 00:12:10.530 align:middle line:84% She never recovered from that man, the velvet trauma, 00:12:10.530 --> 00:12:13.710 align:middle line:84% frightened by a child in the street, 00:12:13.710 --> 00:12:16.740 align:middle line:84% her good red coat flapping in the rain 00:12:16.740 --> 00:12:23.690 align:middle line:84% like the winds of butterfly, the anger of nice on her face. 00:12:23.690 --> 00:12:26.990 align:middle line:90% She wasn't afraid of me. 00:12:26.990 --> 00:12:33.680 align:middle line:84% She feared her love who led her away, nameless and vivid. 00:12:33.680 --> 00:12:35.670 align:middle line:90% Why? 00:12:35.670 --> 00:12:42.300 align:middle line:84% Why did she never reason with me, a direct child, an urchin, 00:12:42.300 --> 00:12:46.050 align:middle line:84% a dickens of a Dickens, a Dickinsonian edge to it 00:12:46.050 --> 00:12:48.950 align:middle line:90% all and everything? 00:12:48.950 --> 00:12:51.110 align:middle line:90% Everything settles. 00:12:51.110 --> 00:12:54.410 align:middle line:90% A woman alone is unnerving. 00:12:54.410 --> 00:13:01.730 align:middle line:84% She is unnerved, that woman, stripped like a shrimp for what 00:13:01.730 --> 00:13:04.520 align:middle line:90% passes for time. 00:13:04.520 --> 00:13:11.150 align:middle line:84% She is still afraid, marred forever by my much, 00:13:11.150 --> 00:13:18.610 align:middle line:84% never to repair the rose and the sorrow. 00:13:18.610 --> 00:13:25.050 align:middle line:84% At the dock, the dim-lit reeking, 00:13:25.050 --> 00:13:29.250 align:middle line:84% my beauty sat in gum-stuck theaters 00:13:29.250 --> 00:13:32.190 align:middle line:90% rocking around the clock. 00:13:32.190 --> 00:13:37.810 align:middle line:84% The mice are asleep, heavy with cat. 00:13:37.810 --> 00:13:41.290 align:middle line:84% She should have kept her legs to herself, 00:13:41.290 --> 00:13:48.490 align:middle line:84% that ticking while I babysat self, my money in hand, 00:13:48.490 --> 00:13:53.440 align:middle line:84% my baby belly asking, who got in first? 00:13:53.440 --> 00:13:56.620 align:middle line:90% Who didn't lock the door? 00:13:56.620 --> 00:13:59.080 align:middle line:90% Who faltered? 00:13:59.080 --> 00:14:02.530 align:middle line:84% What knot did she put in her face? 00:14:02.530 --> 00:14:07.450 align:middle line:84% Some kind of marrow, an arrow of a girl 00:14:07.450 --> 00:14:13.380 align:middle line:90% asking again and gain, why? 00:14:13.380 --> 00:14:19.210 align:middle line:84% Why do they always want to put it in there? 00:14:19.210 --> 00:14:22.930 align:middle line:84% There, there, the man should have 00:14:22.930 --> 00:14:29.830 align:middle line:84% said, when he brought her to nowhere, some special delivery. 00:14:29.830 --> 00:14:34.480 align:middle line:84% He has given up on ever seeing her again 00:14:34.480 --> 00:14:38.500 align:middle line:84% as he takes her arm he doesn't want to touch, 00:14:38.500 --> 00:14:46.510 align:middle line:84% and she breathes in the panic of horses in a field of fire 00:14:46.510 --> 00:14:51.620 align:middle line:90% at me, a small desire. 00:14:51.620 --> 00:14:57.410 align:middle line:84% Is it there, I want to ask her, the low form, asking. 00:14:57.410 --> 00:15:02.750 align:middle line:84% I want to ask her, did it hurt like broken Binaca bottles 00:15:02.750 --> 00:15:07.610 align:middle line:84% going under the skin, like shattered glass in the butt, 00:15:07.610 --> 00:15:11.580 align:middle line:90% but like that, like fire? 00:15:11.580 --> 00:15:18.290 align:middle line:84% Sure, man, like that, like liar, like some tree. 00:15:18.290 --> 00:15:20.780 align:middle line:84% Some man will make you pee your pants 00:15:20.780 --> 00:15:25.580 align:middle line:84% if you don't lock the door, my grandmother warned me. 00:15:25.580 --> 00:15:28.670 align:middle line:90% It was like peeing your pants. 00:15:28.670 --> 00:15:32.600 align:middle line:84% I dreamt it smelled like flame, like holy water, 00:15:32.600 --> 00:15:35.510 align:middle line:84% the bruise still misting my vision 00:15:35.510 --> 00:15:40.670 align:middle line:84% but safe, some kind of arresting. 00:15:40.670 --> 00:15:48.450 align:middle line:84% Make me, hermanita, make fire, they called in the bright. 00:15:48.450 --> 00:15:55.020 align:middle line:84% And I went for it, barefoot, and mattered, my grandmother 00:15:55.020 --> 00:16:00.420 align:middle line:84% terminated at the edge of her deliverance, at the mall, 00:16:00.420 --> 00:16:09.690 align:middle line:84% at the end of 1842, of 1492 ways to gather your pennies 00:16:09.690 --> 00:16:14.820 align:middle line:84% and dream of good weather, of every number that's 00:16:14.820 --> 00:16:17.040 align:middle line:90% ever been fought for. 00:16:17.040 --> 00:16:19.140 align:middle line:90% That's how to get ahead. 00:16:19.140 --> 00:16:22.170 align:middle line:90% Fight for your numbers. 00:16:22.170 --> 00:16:26.490 align:middle line:84% Lock the door, I would have told her. 00:16:26.490 --> 00:16:28.440 align:middle line:90% She didn't. 00:16:28.440 --> 00:16:32.640 align:middle line:84% She didn't listen to her grandmother's wisdom, 00:16:32.640 --> 00:16:38.820 align:middle line:84% and now she has broken herself, this woman, 00:16:38.820 --> 00:16:42.510 align:middle line:84% the one who doesn't cave at the heart getting 00:16:42.510 --> 00:16:48.270 align:middle line:84% marked under the great tires of Acme America, 00:16:48.270 --> 00:16:56.250 align:middle line:84% or the man who takes her along for it, all fury at the one who 00:16:56.250 --> 00:16:59.790 align:middle line:84% would-- all fury at the one he would shoot 00:16:59.790 --> 00:17:04.530 align:middle line:90% if he had a gun, a small me. 00:17:04.530 --> 00:17:07.859 align:middle line:90% The dead grow tired of guns. 00:17:07.859 --> 00:17:13.260 align:middle line:84% They whine for ice cream, some utterance, some fantastic joke 00:17:13.260 --> 00:17:15.359 align:middle line:90% like there used to be. 00:17:15.359 --> 00:17:18.150 align:middle line:90% They get no respect. 00:17:18.150 --> 00:17:22.410 align:middle line:84% They are not on our cells unless we put them there 00:17:22.410 --> 00:17:26.069 align:middle line:90% under your famous call. 00:17:26.069 --> 00:17:31.590 align:middle line:84% I find some scribbled up, the X of the unalphabetized 00:17:31.590 --> 00:17:37.050 align:middle line:84% left unmarked for use or the six-figure contracts 00:17:37.050 --> 00:17:40.410 align:middle line:90% of their multiple burials. 00:17:40.410 --> 00:17:44.010 align:middle line:84% They are ones shoved short of room 00:17:44.010 --> 00:17:47.520 align:middle line:90% you are going to go home to. 00:17:47.520 --> 00:17:54.150 align:middle line:84% The dirges you sing wake from the wakes from the boats 00:17:54.150 --> 00:17:58.080 align:middle line:90% without cargo on the River Styx. 00:17:58.080 --> 00:18:02.280 align:middle line:84% The sticks, the old toolies that skin 00:18:02.280 --> 00:18:07.905 align:middle line:84% them flay away the only souls they'll ever know. 00:18:07.905 --> 00:18:10.930 align:middle line:90% 00:18:10.930 --> 00:18:16.540 align:middle line:84% I have run down the lunatic streets holding my painted 00:18:16.540 --> 00:18:21.580 align:middle line:84% satin skirts between my stiffening legs together, 00:18:21.580 --> 00:18:28.750 align:middle line:84% I, wearing rags and feathers from Salvation Army counters 00:18:28.750 --> 00:18:32.830 align:middle line:84% I am holding together to the heart of me, 00:18:32.830 --> 00:18:36.220 align:middle line:84% and when the river sees me, it knows 00:18:36.220 --> 00:18:39.720 align:middle line:90% drowning men can't touch me. 00:18:39.720 --> 00:18:45.090 align:middle line:84% And when will the heavens open, only nameless lives 00:18:45.090 --> 00:18:46.980 align:middle line:90% can hear me. 00:18:46.980 --> 00:18:51.630 align:middle line:84% They open their puny pockets to the fog-struck morning. 00:18:51.630 --> 00:18:57.030 align:middle line:84% Only the foreign sun thins this eve-struck land, 00:18:57.030 --> 00:19:00.960 align:middle line:84% this parched settlement where we wait, 00:19:00.960 --> 00:19:08.670 align:middle line:84% this garden of the heart's delight and the memory therein. 00:19:08.670 --> 00:19:13.500 align:middle line:84% The seeds crush under the heavy trucks, blown away 00:19:13.500 --> 00:19:17.850 align:middle line:84% by their wingless destiny, a woman running, 00:19:17.850 --> 00:19:21.180 align:middle line:84% all the fear of her, as she's blown away 00:19:21.180 --> 00:19:25.980 align:middle line:84% by the tattered rattle of automatic gunfire unto 00:19:25.980 --> 00:19:28.200 align:middle line:90% matriarchy. 00:19:28.200 --> 00:19:32.040 align:middle line:84% Fill the slots of men's asses with coin 00:19:32.040 --> 00:19:37.730 align:middle line:84% while copulating masses heave under the dry ocean-scratched 00:19:37.730 --> 00:19:38.730 align:middle line:90% sand. 00:19:38.730 --> 00:19:42.630 align:middle line:84% And the hurricanes breathe for us, 00:19:42.630 --> 00:19:48.830 align:middle line:84% and the earth fumbles below, belly full of birth. 00:19:48.830 --> 00:19:54.920 align:middle line:84% I am in the night over and over to get it out, 00:19:54.920 --> 00:19:58.340 align:middle line:90% each one, each year. 00:19:58.340 --> 00:20:04.400 align:middle line:84% The wasting of my age, it is good to quantify. 00:20:04.400 --> 00:20:11.240 align:middle line:84% It calms down the doomy drunks with missing addition. 00:20:11.240 --> 00:20:14.480 align:middle line:90% What is the good? 00:20:14.480 --> 00:20:21.440 align:middle line:84% They long for a second language and argue in the no reply. 00:20:21.440 --> 00:20:26.480 align:middle line:84% And the true stay gullible, waiting in their hearts 00:20:26.480 --> 00:20:29.630 align:middle line:84% for the raving seabirds, but all they 00:20:29.630 --> 00:20:34.550 align:middle line:84% get are the painted landscapes to land. 00:20:34.550 --> 00:20:38.990 align:middle line:84% They are never getting, never tranced 00:20:38.990 --> 00:20:43.040 align:middle line:84% into puzzles for their missing pieces. 00:20:43.040 --> 00:20:46.220 align:middle line:84% They keep it glued together with eggs 00:20:46.220 --> 00:20:49.970 align:middle line:84% and stuck to the walls of their prisons 00:20:49.970 --> 00:20:52.220 align:middle line:90% as their best calendars. 00:20:52.220 --> 00:20:56.210 align:middle line:90% As they are, it never works out. 00:20:56.210 --> 00:20:59.030 align:middle line:90% They crumble into pieces. 00:20:59.030 --> 00:21:02.060 align:middle line:90% Their best calendars fade. 00:21:02.060 --> 00:21:05.780 align:middle line:84% The real estate agents retire into 00:21:05.780 --> 00:21:10.280 align:middle line:84% their comfortable mortgages while the plastic spoons 00:21:10.280 --> 00:21:17.960 align:middle line:84% of the poor's tomorrow beg for a fix, anything to fix it up 00:21:17.960 --> 00:21:26.230 align:middle line:84% tomorrow, la mañana that never comes for the too-raw rub. 00:21:26.230 --> 00:21:32.470 align:middle line:84% The woman will pay, the man lost to more photocopying of girls, 00:21:32.470 --> 00:21:37.060 align:middle line:84% their slave screens holding the fingerprints of blue, 00:21:37.060 --> 00:21:42.520 align:middle line:84% if they were more than this dust under the cracks and creaking 00:21:42.520 --> 00:21:44.740 align:middle line:90% floorboards. 00:21:44.740 --> 00:21:48.310 align:middle line:84% They require the room to die, so they 00:21:48.310 --> 00:21:54.430 align:middle line:84% go outside, where freedom lives, their heads in their hands, 00:21:54.430 --> 00:21:58.240 align:middle line:84% their diploma from the crumbling peeking out 00:21:58.240 --> 00:22:03.700 align:middle line:84% from the bar like the small hand of the left-behind child 00:22:03.700 --> 00:22:09.100 align:middle line:84% left in the smoking car while the weary sleep it off 00:22:09.100 --> 00:22:11.890 align:middle line:90% one more time. 00:22:11.890 --> 00:22:13.570 align:middle line:90% One thing! 00:22:13.570 --> 00:22:16.120 align:middle line:90% One thing! 00:22:16.120 --> 00:22:21.970 align:middle line:84% Just one thing lacking, they murmur 00:22:21.970 --> 00:22:26.560 align:middle line:84% to the jungle of one, the golfing judge, 00:22:26.560 --> 00:22:30.850 align:middle line:84% the drinking healer begging their fall. 00:22:30.850 --> 00:22:37.450 align:middle line:84% The churches ring on every corner of America, I plus, 00:22:37.450 --> 00:22:43.870 align:middle line:84% or would ring if they had a bell and believed in the bull. 00:22:43.870 --> 00:22:47.410 align:middle line:84% The bell in the hall between hemispheres 00:22:47.410 --> 00:22:53.320 align:middle line:84% rings, but it's an arson fire and a melted telephone, 00:22:53.320 --> 00:22:54.490 align:middle line:90% old school. 00:22:54.490 --> 00:22:58.570 align:middle line:84% And it rings off the hook while the hooks and daggers 00:22:58.570 --> 00:23:04.510 align:middle line:84% of the young who serve wait for them gleaming in the night 00:23:04.510 --> 00:23:11.200 align:middle line:84% with their baskets of doom, their hollow-man heels clicking 00:23:11.200 --> 00:23:19.990 align:middle line:84% in virtual echo behind them for one last time, one final thing, 00:23:19.990 --> 00:23:29.770 align:middle line:84% one thing, one fling, one long golden bow, the bow, 00:23:29.770 --> 00:23:37.240 align:middle line:84% or the silvered screen where they see who they really are, 00:23:37.240 --> 00:23:44.820 align:middle line:84% some half utterance naked but fulfilling, 00:23:44.820 --> 00:23:56.940 align:middle line:84% till death do us part, one spirit to all. 00:23:56.940 --> 00:24:00.370 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:24:00.370 --> 00:24:08.220 align:middle line:90% 00:24:08.220 --> 00:24:10.500 align:middle line:90% So, debut of that poem. 00:24:10.500 --> 00:24:11.000 align:middle line:90%