WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.040 align:middle line:90% 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:02.760 align:middle line:90% This is a poem. 00:00:02.760 --> 00:00:13.810 align:middle line:90% 00:00:13.810 --> 00:00:16.050 align:middle line:90% It's called Celestial Overseers. 00:00:16.050 --> 00:00:24.800 align:middle line:84% And I think it's about clouds, I mean. 00:00:24.800 --> 00:00:26.550 align:middle line:84% Something well, you know, something above. 00:00:26.550 --> 00:00:28.133 align:middle line:84% I think it started being about clouds, 00:00:28.133 --> 00:00:30.780 align:middle line:84% maybe looking down and the idea of something up there, 00:00:30.780 --> 00:00:34.850 align:middle line:84% you know, jotting down following all your activities. 00:00:34.850 --> 00:00:39.300 align:middle line:90% 00:00:39.300 --> 00:00:43.200 align:middle line:84% Do they count my steps meticulously? 00:00:43.200 --> 00:00:49.020 align:middle line:84% Have they reached the figure of many zeros separated by commas? 00:00:49.020 --> 00:00:53.340 align:middle line:84% Could I have walked already to the nearest star? 00:00:53.340 --> 00:00:57.900 align:middle line:84% Recall for me please one of my first steps. 00:00:57.900 --> 00:01:02.430 align:middle line:84% I want a suit I was wearing that day pressed. 00:01:02.430 --> 00:01:06.750 align:middle line:84% I want my mother again to hold my hand tightly. 00:01:06.750 --> 00:01:11.340 align:middle line:84% That must be our grandmother there in the open coffin. 00:01:11.340 --> 00:01:14.520 align:middle line:84% Her hands are chopped from so much scrubbing the floor 00:01:14.520 --> 00:01:18.030 align:middle line:90% we walk on in black shoes. 00:01:18.030 --> 00:01:20.880 align:middle line:84% The three little steps I then took 00:01:20.880 --> 00:01:23.640 align:middle line:84% so that I may be lifted up to kiss her. 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:27.580 align:middle line:84% And the three equally tiny ones to get back. 00:01:27.580 --> 00:01:32.320 align:middle line:84% Do they still resound at ever receding magnitudes? 00:01:32.320 --> 00:01:35.630 align:middle line:84% Could that dog sitting Sphinx-like at the seashore 00:01:35.630 --> 00:01:39.330 align:middle line:84% hear my new shoes squeaking and squeaking 00:01:39.330 --> 00:01:41.900 align:middle line:90% on the other side of the world? 00:01:41.900 --> 00:01:44.490 align:middle line:90%