So I'll read part from this book that's called Way.
Actually the book is one long poem,
but it's divided into six sections.
So I'll read the first section of it that's called Walking By.
And one note on this.
I frequently used word their in the poem which you'll hear
and it's actually almost always spelled T-H-E-I-R so that makes
it easier for you to understand what's going on as opposed
to the other spellings of there since it could mean that
if you're hearing it that way.
To have seemed still though not wanting to be serene there.
I was in school, the bus driver seeing a girl crossing
the street hadn't stopped.
She'd been hit.
So the other students, the boys would hit
the side of the bus every day.
When we went around that corner, our understanding
the driver and clairvoyant There to simply make
that having occurred to me.
Not to conceive of that in a young person, the teacher,
I didn't disagree with her encouraging the other students,
they hissed and threw their books on the floor
when I stood up to read.
It was during the war so it wouldn't have
done any good to show anger.
To be con flicted in their, my, own situation,
so not so sure as with the boy or man
who had climbed the flagpole to get away from the cops.
I was walking home, he'd been hit by a club.
Foam came out of his mouth, him screaming that he'd been hit.
There was a crowd.
People were still demurring from his extreme emotion
seen in their faces.
Their my who're, the ideal but in the past as convention.
The man who'd been sleeping I came home weeping telling him
what had happened.
Still lying in the bed having just awakened
began screaming in response about my wanting
to be in school.
As with the man a black fireman the police rounded up.
He was walking by.
There were riots.
He was stopped and so he sassed them.
They were frisking him sentiment because he was angry.
Though they found out he was a fireman,
the cop saying Oh no, putting him into the paddy wagon.
That the material world as coming.
We were in the country, that would be in the present
though there was no one around.
Coming having driven up a dirt path by the highway though able
to see it from where we were still in the car.
My having the car loaned to me, the owner had gone away.
And driving in the country, the police stopped me.
It was a huge limousine.
The sides crushed from being in accidents.
They are saying to me I might have stolen it
though they were simply passing the time.
And friendly my saying why would I do that?
Made to be convention in the present, there my by myself.
I was a waitress in a restaurant of a department store
and stole a dress from the store though it
was said that most of the thieves were employees.
This had been said to us in the orientation meeting.
To make as in their it with a person in a time.
Having made it as with an individual.
Among the women who came in to eat
at the restaurant every day, they
had much time at their disposal, was a huge woman
who always dressed elaborately.
She talked to herself having conversations
in different voices.
I waited on her.
The store detective having lunch seated nearby
in order to keep an eye on her, her saying I was an ass
or referring to people's asses.
That some thing as able to occur only in one way in the present.
A crowd, women who were shoppers.
So it is an instance of not caring
though they were waiting outside the doors of the department
store which had not opened yet, I went in early.
Followed by the store detective, I had very long hair.
Up the escalator, the white haired woman
who supervised the waitresses was asked later
whether I worked there.
With an individual, with compassion there.
I was stopped at a stoplight, a funeral procession passing
uninterrupted though the lights were against them.
A man reacting to their not observing the lights
began honking.
And going out into the intersection
crashed into the limousine, which
was passing at the moment.
All the people in the procession were
white haired, the occupants of that limousine seeming stunned.
Their to have not known the same people
throughout a time, which is in another man
the sense of being aware.
We were in bed asleep, outside the house an accident occurred.
A huge trailer truck crashed into the base of the overpass.
No other cars were around.
It was quiet.
The cops coming and flashing their lights
around the crumpled cab of the truck, a few of their words
carrying to us.
That the social world them as in it.
The man who'd been asleep not the person
who'd been in the truck.
Being downtown, it's during the day,
there were many people out.
So my having a conflict in the sense
of being nothing if I were not in that setting regardless
of others having such a view.
Their leaving as a function of having to be in it.
I've been mugged.
A man ran toward me, grabbed my purse so I had time
to see him though it was at night.
A friend next day I went to get the purse.
Offering to accompany me, he was driving
a fancy car out of work.
He's depressed.
Entering the housing projects where
the woman lived who had the purse,
the children ran alongside the car.
It was there for the White haired landlady, men
from there standing motionless outside the projects regarding
the materialistic though they're having that in others.
They're confused and wounded.
In an audience there was a crowd.
Since there weren't enough chairs,
some sitting on the floor as I did.
And it was recent.
I had the sense of being nothing.
A young person as a function of memory them.
The man whom I didn't know tiring
as being the instance in which such a situation could
erupt into hitting the car in the funeral procession.
It would be in the present as having hit
one of the limousines as many people being around them
like that not aware of tyrannizing that made
to occur in him or someone.
Weeping in the hall once before being composed
enough to unlock the door and go into the apartment,
anyone being in this state.
A boy so it's in the past though he'd said this about himself
on his father's sailboat wanting to consider it
his, his father jeering at him for that.
It being fixed would be to free the past from myself
not necessarily it freed from him.
That would be the life of desire.
Driving away from the projects, the man seeing them and so
endangering the other men, there being
benign who are motionless outside saying it
wasn't known what people like this are going to do.
Them as a function of memory someone it's physical.
So it is sentiment as in the construction workers coming
and therefore to be able to free the past from myself.
My working for a woman who was blind, she was in her 90s,
had always been wealthy in the atmosphere
of maids and doormen.
In the morning, getting the newspaper in the hotel's
lobby for her.
It was spring weather.
They'd comprehend my function without my
wearing a uniform seen in their expressions
at the newspaper stand.
Seeing the people on the street later contemplating them.
Therefore endangering them, their being
Republican it was said of them leading into another war.
Meeting up with a person who's young
being like that individual.
I dreamed I was to use rags though a truck came along
the street taking them off.
I was looking at a river from some windows
where I saw apes that were giant.
My knowing it wasn't usually seen
and was germane to the rags.
A giant ape that was male floating submerged on his back
in very blue water, his genitals seen floating gently as well.
Some in the group stood up wearing the khaki clothes, them
walking off into the town.
It occurring to me who would be interested in rags?
That as cruelty in quotes to be learned as a period
but from some individual?
The thought of the construction workers
seeing them having occurred then.
Later, events set in terms of chronology,
which may be earlier in time but emotionally are of a later age.
That would be the age which the boy on his father's sailboat
would be part of, and my being freed therefore.
I'm out walking by myself to be like some individual, them,
and being serene.
I had insomnia, not because of this.
The birds were on the roof walking around.
Though it was night, I thought birds slept at night.
It occurred to me they were like me,
the reverse of me though owing to their being
in that situation.
Throwing themselves away throughout a time
occurring for a reason.
Fragment, told others are not like the nature of themselves
by a man or someone being that.
Driving not wanting to be serene and so what?
The old as simply that but the struggle in an individual as
in a young person.
Blinded by love and didn't see, he
didn't have compassion and so what?
Not being do him or someone, or to anything.
A person not having to worry about death at their age
had been said to me at the time.
The relation of being blinded by love later and the thought
of not worrying about their death when they're young
and part.
A man in a city when I'd been feeling intense anger kicking
me in a crowd.
A bird lit on my head when I was walking
and was having the same thought.
Myself under an oppression and the bird that lit on me
briefly seeming to have picked up on that.
Whether that's true and my to detach
from having that intense anger.
It, the bird not necessarily hostile to me.
However, it feels such a thing, or why
it has occurred continually which is not related
to my thoughts accuracy?
The lovely city and regardless of my attitudes or myself
at the time of the episode with the bird.
There as no reason for living regardless of the episode
walking, feeling intense anger.
It has nothing to do with itself, my feeling
intense anger.
The lovely city and giving it the bird
that may not feel it wanting not to wreck the past,
but that to the present.
A person without means as giving it that with a bird.
And them as a slave and to that have
that happen to it, and to anything in their state
or some state of misery and that have that to it
regardless of their view, or not misery which
then to that and the person without
means in the city regardless of feeling then in an episode.
By chance as it would be to the jerk, there as nothing,
there in the past.
So that as fast told of a man's inherent inferiority
in front of him we were young then
so that nothing could be done.
Misery then as which not having to do with itself
detached from the lovely city.
So as it and the lovely city having to occur fast, there.
The sexual being that relation to that custom.
The jerk as to a public figure, that custom.
To feeling to them and the jerk in coming or them and a jerk.
So as not to the lovely city.
Though they're going quickly, the relation of what's
done and making it in the life of people.
How long have I been reading?
I forgot to look when I started.
That's the end of that particular piece.
Oh, well, I guess that's an--