WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.960 align:middle line:84% I think that's the end of the reading, do you? 00:00:01.960 --> 00:00:02.970 align:middle line:90% It's not the end of the reading. 00:00:02.970 --> 00:00:03.470 align:middle line:90% Yeah. 00:00:03.470 --> 00:00:05.670 align:middle line:84% I wanted to read some new ones, and then-- 00:00:05.670 --> 00:00:06.540 align:middle line:90% how many? 00:00:06.540 --> 00:00:08.140 align:middle line:90% I think there's 20. 00:00:08.140 --> 00:00:10.980 align:middle line:90% 00:00:10.980 --> 00:00:14.310 align:middle line:90% It's tight. 00:00:14.310 --> 00:00:17.730 align:middle line:84% OK, I'm going to read mostly animal poems. 00:00:17.730 --> 00:00:22.740 align:middle line:84% So the animal thing is very strong in my life right now. 00:00:22.740 --> 00:00:24.750 align:middle line:90% They're very sad. 00:00:24.750 --> 00:00:26.020 align:middle line:90% But I will say-- 00:00:26.020 --> 00:00:29.070 align:middle line:84% the thing is, if you can just kill animals, 00:00:29.070 --> 00:00:30.730 align:middle line:90% you can just kill anything. 00:00:30.730 --> 00:00:33.510 align:middle line:84% And as we know, people get called animals, 00:00:33.510 --> 00:00:35.890 align:middle line:84% and that means we can just kill them. 00:00:35.890 --> 00:00:38.310 align:middle line:84% So the whole-- you start with the animals. 00:00:38.310 --> 00:00:42.060 align:middle line:84% You treat the animals right, and it just goes on, I think. 00:00:42.060 --> 00:00:43.640 align:middle line:84% And in New York City where I live, 00:00:43.640 --> 00:00:45.665 align:middle line:84% it kills animals like, with great-- 00:00:45.665 --> 00:00:48.190 align:middle line:90% 00:00:48.190 --> 00:00:50.080 align:middle line:90% I don't know-- aplomb. 00:00:50.080 --> 00:00:51.160 align:middle line:90% Horrendous. 00:00:51.160 --> 00:00:52.760 align:middle line:90% And it's getting worse. 00:00:52.760 --> 00:00:54.790 align:middle line:84% So this is called "Warm Mountains." 00:00:54.790 --> 00:01:03.170 align:middle line:90% 00:01:03.170 --> 00:01:05.120 align:middle line:90% "Well, I'm perched over Paris"-- 00:01:05.120 --> 00:01:06.170 align:middle line:90% so I'm on a plane. 00:01:06.170 --> 00:01:08.540 align:middle line:84% There's a lot of plane poems here. 00:01:08.540 --> 00:01:10.110 align:middle line:90% "Well, I'm perched over Paris. 00:01:10.110 --> 00:01:11.270 align:middle line:90% I want to say hello. 00:01:11.270 --> 00:01:13.280 align:middle line:84% The camera on the plane pulls back, 00:01:13.280 --> 00:01:15.230 align:middle line:84% and now it's looking on the ocean, and then 00:01:15.230 --> 00:01:16.790 align:middle line:90% a list of names. 00:01:16.790 --> 00:01:19.400 align:middle line:84% The Pyrenees are dangling down there. 00:01:19.400 --> 00:01:21.980 align:middle line:84% Only on a map are mountains flat. 00:01:21.980 --> 00:01:25.190 align:middle line:84% I like mountains because they remind me of history, 00:01:25.190 --> 00:01:26.990 align:middle line:90% the world getting poured. 00:01:26.990 --> 00:01:30.090 align:middle line:84% A mountain is a kind of splash, ocean's residue. 00:01:30.090 --> 00:01:32.600 align:middle line:84% And I can rise to the plight of the fish. 00:01:32.600 --> 00:01:34.400 align:middle line:90% More are killed than anything. 00:01:34.400 --> 00:01:37.080 align:middle line:84% I don't know what to do with the endlessness of my feelings. 00:01:37.080 --> 00:01:39.770 align:middle line:84% I'm the last one on Earth thinking about Orchard. 00:01:39.770 --> 00:01:42.650 align:middle line:84% A cruel name for a small dog found in the streets 00:01:42.650 --> 00:01:44.180 align:middle line:90% of an unkind city. 00:01:44.180 --> 00:01:45.590 align:middle line:90% A dog of no gender-- 00:01:45.590 --> 00:01:47.270 align:middle line:90% blue, gray, slightly red. 00:01:47.270 --> 00:01:50.060 align:middle line:84% And when he was captured by the city for no purpose 00:01:50.060 --> 00:01:53.750 align:middle line:84% except this small dog should go there, 00:01:53.750 --> 00:01:57.050 align:middle line:84% he was so appalled and confused by this hard sell he 00:01:57.050 --> 00:02:00.140 align:middle line:84% found himself in, he peed and pooped on the floor. 00:02:00.140 --> 00:02:03.810 align:middle line:84% He's scared, I cried, thinking that would bring him some love. 00:02:03.810 --> 00:02:08.100 align:middle line:84% And he needed someone to fill out forms, to walk in the door 00:02:08.100 --> 00:02:10.710 align:middle line:84% and bring little Orchard home, but he's dead. 00:02:10.710 --> 00:02:13.170 align:middle line:84% In a city, a small dog that no one wants 00:02:13.170 --> 00:02:14.970 align:middle line:90% gets a needle in his heart. 00:02:14.970 --> 00:02:17.190 align:middle line:84% It stops-- maybe not right away-- 00:02:17.190 --> 00:02:20.280 align:middle line:84% but he's tossed in a bag, brought to a crematorium 00:02:20.280 --> 00:02:23.670 align:middle line:84% on Long Island that has a blazing fire full of cats 00:02:23.670 --> 00:02:24.420 align:middle line:90% and dogs. 00:02:24.420 --> 00:02:28.320 align:middle line:84% The city pays them so much to do this terrible burning, 00:02:28.320 --> 00:02:32.010 align:middle line:84% that some dogs like Orchard are covering a debt. 00:02:32.010 --> 00:02:34.980 align:middle line:84% Orchard was just weight, like the slight addition 00:02:34.980 --> 00:02:38.880 align:middle line:84% of his death helped somebody out in keeping the figures in line. 00:02:38.880 --> 00:02:41.020 align:middle line:90% The payment must have a purpose. 00:02:41.020 --> 00:02:43.740 align:middle line:84% The further from the dogs, the emptier the line-- 00:02:43.740 --> 00:02:47.100 align:middle line:84% it all being kept on a computer somewhere that 00:02:47.100 --> 00:02:49.170 align:middle line:84% gets erased from time to time because 00:02:49.170 --> 00:02:51.150 align:middle line:90% of the cheapness of this story. 00:02:51.150 --> 00:02:54.180 align:middle line:84% A dog got a pretty name, but no hands 00:02:54.180 --> 00:02:56.310 align:middle line:84% come for his warm, pretty shoulder. 00:02:56.310 --> 00:02:59.640 align:middle line:84% I've made him a boy with colors in his fur and light 00:02:59.640 --> 00:03:01.155 align:middle line:90% in his eyes, and he would run." 00:03:01.155 --> 00:03:05.280 align:middle line:90% 00:03:05.280 --> 00:03:06.910 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:03:06.910 --> 00:03:08.460 align:middle line:90% Thanks.