WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.850 align:middle line:90% Look what the cat dragged in. 00:00:02.850 --> 00:00:06.290 align:middle line:90% Did your family say that? 00:00:06.290 --> 00:00:08.900 align:middle line:90% Some did. 00:00:08.900 --> 00:00:10.655 align:middle line:84% Sometimes, I feel like I'm in-- there's 00:00:10.655 --> 00:00:11.900 align:middle line:90% a lot of death in this book. 00:00:11.900 --> 00:00:13.400 align:middle line:90% I don't know what that-- 00:00:13.400 --> 00:00:15.770 align:middle line:84% I think the idea is that within everybody's life, 00:00:15.770 --> 00:00:18.170 align:middle line:84% they actually die at some point, so it's become 00:00:18.170 --> 00:00:21.380 align:middle line:90% like a character in my poetry. 00:00:21.380 --> 00:00:24.350 align:middle line:84% "Sometimes I feel like I'm in some movie about death. 00:00:24.350 --> 00:00:27.590 align:middle line:84% This rainy night, pull your hood off, and get inside. 00:00:27.590 --> 00:00:31.580 align:middle line:84% The eerie splashing, silence of it, each eerie step. 00:00:31.580 --> 00:00:34.280 align:middle line:84% No, I do not want to get on your bus. 00:00:34.280 --> 00:00:35.690 align:middle line:90% I'm locking my bike. 00:00:35.690 --> 00:00:38.150 align:middle line:90% I thought about them tonight. 00:00:38.150 --> 00:00:39.230 align:middle line:90% I could try. 00:00:39.230 --> 00:00:41.360 align:middle line:90% Go on a journey, see everyone. 00:00:41.360 --> 00:00:42.990 align:middle line:90% No one does that anymore. 00:00:42.990 --> 00:00:44.840 align:middle line:84% And then we were all in the room-- 00:00:44.840 --> 00:00:45.770 align:middle line:90% the Zoom room. 00:00:45.770 --> 00:00:49.100 align:middle line:84% And that's why I was thinking of them because they were there. 00:00:49.100 --> 00:00:50.510 align:middle line:90% I don't know them at all. 00:00:50.510 --> 00:00:51.530 align:middle line:90% I could make the effort. 00:00:51.530 --> 00:00:54.290 align:middle line:84% I'd be known as them that came that one time. 00:00:54.290 --> 00:00:57.590 align:middle line:84% The whole city gleaming in my head, wet and black. 00:00:57.590 --> 00:00:59.600 align:middle line:90% I'm out in it with my groceries. 00:00:59.600 --> 00:01:00.920 align:middle line:90% I don't even want you now. 00:01:00.920 --> 00:01:02.300 align:middle line:90% I've got to say this. 00:01:02.300 --> 00:01:04.640 align:middle line:84% She showed up late, and I thought, 00:01:04.640 --> 00:01:06.330 align:middle line:90% look what the cat dragged in. 00:01:06.330 --> 00:01:07.680 align:middle line:90% It meant we were close. 00:01:07.680 --> 00:01:09.970 align:middle line:90% And there they were in my head. 00:01:09.970 --> 00:01:12.150 align:middle line:84% That's where they live, feeding me things. 00:01:12.150 --> 00:01:13.590 align:middle line:90% Look what the cat dragged in. 00:01:13.590 --> 00:01:14.790 align:middle line:90% Would she know it was love? 00:01:14.790 --> 00:01:17.390 align:middle line:90% Would anybody?" 00:01:17.390 --> 00:01:19.730 align:middle line:90% Actually, I'm so son-- 00:01:19.730 --> 00:01:20.510 align:middle line:90% I fucked that up. 00:01:20.510 --> 00:01:22.010 align:middle line:90% "Look what the cat dragged in. 00:01:22.010 --> 00:01:23.270 align:middle line:90% Would she know it was love? 00:01:23.270 --> 00:01:24.710 align:middle line:90% Would anyone?" 00:01:24.710 --> 00:01:25.520 align:middle line:90% Not anybody. 00:01:25.520 --> 00:01:26.210 align:middle line:90% Anyone. 00:01:26.210 --> 00:01:28.510 align:middle line:90% I'm sorry. 00:01:28.510 --> 00:01:29.010 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:29.010 --> 00:01:30.150 align:middle line:90% Oh, thank you. 00:01:30.150 --> 00:01:32.840 align:middle line:84% And I think one more from this book. 00:01:32.840 --> 00:01:34.240 align:middle line:90% How am I--