WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.510 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.510 --> 00:00:01.620 align:middle line:90% Three. 00:00:01.620 --> 00:00:05.490 align:middle line:90% "Memory Love." 00:00:05.490 --> 00:00:09.630 align:middle line:84% "In the yellow afternoon I watch your eyes, green, 00:00:09.630 --> 00:00:13.710 align:middle line:84% as the glass that washes up on New Hampshire beaches. 00:00:13.710 --> 00:00:17.550 align:middle line:84% Behind them, a dead brother, a lover who 00:00:17.550 --> 00:00:21.300 align:middle line:84% married someone else, the Brattle Theater, 00:00:21.300 --> 00:00:24.480 align:middle line:84% a clump of reeds against a screen of sumac, 00:00:24.480 --> 00:00:27.450 align:middle line:90% the Berkshires, October. 00:00:27.450 --> 00:00:35.190 align:middle line:84% These made into words sting like poison, drug like poison. 00:00:35.190 --> 00:00:36.420 align:middle line:90% Memory. 00:00:36.420 --> 00:00:37.890 align:middle line:90% Love. 00:00:37.890 --> 00:00:41.130 align:middle line:84% Bitter itch from the flip of your words, 00:00:41.130 --> 00:00:47.160 align:middle line:84% your laughter, your face turning away, away. 00:00:47.160 --> 00:00:50.790 align:middle line:84% I trace the hollow between your neck and shoulder. 00:00:50.790 --> 00:00:56.470 align:middle line:84% Honing words to slip like razors under your skin. 00:00:56.470 --> 00:01:00.300 align:middle line:90% I am as speechless as the dead. 00:01:00.300 --> 00:01:02.910 align:middle line:90% I would kill you if I could. 00:01:02.910 --> 00:01:06.380 align:middle line:84% I will kill you as soon as I can." 00:01:06.380 --> 00:01:07.292 align:middle line:90%