WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.990 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.990 --> 00:00:05.708 align:middle line:84% This is another of those small poems, a very small poem 00:00:05.708 --> 00:00:06.500 align:middle line:90% from the next book. 00:00:06.500 --> 00:00:08.540 align:middle line:90% It's a poem called Laughter. 00:00:08.540 --> 00:00:09.850 align:middle line:90% It is laughter speaking. 00:00:09.850 --> 00:00:12.380 align:middle line:84% We're talking about gods this afternoon. 00:00:12.380 --> 00:00:15.080 align:middle line:84% And laughter might as well be a God. 00:00:15.080 --> 00:00:17.570 align:middle line:84% It's one of the ones that we all love. 00:00:17.570 --> 00:00:20.300 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.300 --> 00:00:24.260 align:middle line:84% The great gods are blind or pretend to be. 00:00:24.260 --> 00:00:28.960 align:middle line:84% Finding that I am among men, I open my eyes and they shake. 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:31.000 align:middle line:90%