WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:10.120 align:middle line:84% This is a love poem about love and its importance. 00:00:10.120 --> 00:00:12.910 align:middle line:90% Why the mouth? 00:00:12.910 --> 00:00:17.315 align:middle line:84% Why is it the mouth we put to the mouth, the final moment? 00:00:17.315 --> 00:00:19.440 align:middle line:84% Let me take this out, so I can see all of the poem. 00:00:19.440 --> 00:00:25.720 align:middle line:90% 00:00:25.720 --> 00:00:28.930 align:middle line:90% The Border Inside Us. 00:00:28.930 --> 00:00:31.900 align:middle line:90% Why the mouth? 00:00:31.900 --> 00:00:37.420 align:middle line:84% Why is it the mouth we put to the mouth at the final moment? 00:00:37.420 --> 00:00:40.630 align:middle line:90% Why not the famous groin? 00:00:40.630 --> 00:00:43.540 align:middle line:90% Because the groin is far away. 00:00:43.540 --> 00:00:46.375 align:middle line:84% The mouth is close up against the soul. 00:00:46.375 --> 00:00:49.070 align:middle line:90% 00:00:49.070 --> 00:00:54.050 align:middle line:84% Before setting out for years in prison, 00:00:54.050 --> 00:00:57.890 align:middle line:84% men coupled desperately all night, 00:00:57.890 --> 00:01:01.640 align:middle line:90% but that is the body's goodbye. 00:01:01.640 --> 00:01:09.290 align:middle line:84% We kiss the person we love, last thing before the coffin is shut, 00:01:09.290 --> 00:01:14.435 align:middle line:84% because it is our being touching something unknown. 00:01:14.435 --> 00:01:17.330 align:middle line:90% 00:01:17.330 --> 00:01:21.230 align:middle line:84% A kiss is the frontier inside us. 00:01:21.230 --> 00:01:26.000 align:middle line:84% It is where the courting becomes the courtship, where the dancing 00:01:26.000 --> 00:01:29.690 align:middle line:90% ends and the dance begins. 00:01:29.690 --> 00:01:34.760 align:middle line:84% The mouth is our chief access to the intimacy in which she 00:01:34.760 --> 00:01:38.690 align:middle line:84% may reside, her mouth is the door 00:01:38.690 --> 00:01:44.540 align:middle line:84% of the brain, the forecourt of the heart, the way to a mystery 00:01:44.540 --> 00:01:49.610 align:middle line:84% enthroned where we meet momentarily 00:01:49.610 --> 00:01:53.230 align:middle line:90% amid the seraphim and the power. 00:01:53.230 --> 00:01:54.000 align:middle line:90%