WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.800 align:middle line:90% 00:00:07.800 --> 00:00:10.441 align:middle line:84% This first poem is called Poem For Doom. 00:00:10.441 --> 00:00:13.810 align:middle line:90% 00:00:13.810 --> 00:00:16.300 align:middle line:90% Poem for doom. 00:00:16.300 --> 00:00:18.580 align:middle line:90% "Birds don't lie 00:00:18.580 --> 00:00:20.960 align:middle line:90% They're never lost 00:00:20.960 --> 00:00:22.190 align:middle line:90% Above the Earth 00:00:22.190 --> 00:00:23.660 align:middle line:90% They never think 00:00:23.660 --> 00:00:25.700 align:middle line:90% I stole this form 00:00:25.700 --> 00:00:28.280 align:middle line:90% Or blue is the best 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:29.840 align:middle line:90% I listen to it 00:00:29.840 --> 00:00:31.880 align:middle line:90% Singing my old man 00:00:31.880 --> 00:00:33.170 align:middle line:90% Is far away 00:00:33.170 --> 00:00:34.580 align:middle line:90% Singing American 00:00:34.580 --> 00:00:36.320 align:middle line:90% Songs stolen 00:00:36.320 --> 00:00:37.550 align:middle line:90% From those who lived 00:00:37.550 --> 00:00:38.870 align:middle line:90% In what now is 00:00:38.870 --> 00:00:39.650 align:middle line:90% But was not 00:00:39.650 --> 00:00:41.450 align:middle line:90% The park which makes 00:00:41.450 --> 00:00:43.770 align:middle line:90% Me love him 00:00:43.770 --> 00:00:45.120 align:middle line:90% I'm eating an orange 00:00:45.120 --> 00:00:46.170 align:middle line:90% Someone grabbed 00:00:46.170 --> 00:00:48.180 align:middle line:90% From nature 00:00:48.180 --> 00:00:49.650 align:middle line:90% Over me I hear 00:00:49.650 --> 00:00:51.300 align:middle line:90% Controlled mechanical 00:00:51.300 --> 00:00:53.160 align:middle line:90% Obsidian dragonflies 00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:55.830 align:middle line:90% Search for anarchists 00:00:55.830 --> 00:00:57.310 align:middle line:90% For a long time 00:00:57.310 --> 00:00:58.170 align:middle line:90% I went to school 00:00:58.170 --> 00:01:00.120 align:middle line:90% In the palm of my life 00:01:00.120 --> 00:01:01.860 align:middle line:90% Carrying a stone 00:01:01.860 --> 00:01:03.360 align:middle line:90% Obeying the law 00:01:03.360 --> 00:01:05.010 align:middle line:90% Of semblance 00:01:05.010 --> 00:01:06.120 align:middle line:90% Now each night 00:01:06.120 --> 00:01:07.410 align:middle line:90% I bring it back 00:01:07.410 --> 00:01:08.970 align:middle line:90% Down to the land 00:01:08.970 --> 00:01:11.090 align:middle line:90% Asphodels cover 00:01:11.090 --> 00:01:12.260 align:middle line:90% Then I wake 00:01:12.260 --> 00:01:13.520 align:middle line:90% And take my son 00:01:13.520 --> 00:01:14.780 align:middle line:90% Out on the porch 00:01:14.780 --> 00:01:16.460 align:middle line:90% To say hello 00:01:16.460 --> 00:01:18.290 align:middle line:90% Everything hello 00:01:18.290 --> 00:01:20.540 align:middle line:90% Green hills that slept 00:01:20.540 --> 00:01:22.100 align:middle line:90% Hello tree 00:01:22.100 --> 00:01:23.240 align:middle line:90% Drawn on the side 00:01:23.240 --> 00:01:24.680 align:middle line:90% Of a white truck 00:01:24.680 --> 00:01:26.300 align:middle line:90% Exorably rumbling 00:01:26.300 --> 00:01:28.070 align:middle line:90% Toward some hole 00:01:28.070 --> 00:01:29.780 align:middle line:90% Hello Magnolia 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:30.560 align:middle line:90% Whose pink 00:01:30.560 --> 00:01:31.580 align:middle line:90% And white blossoms 00:01:31.580 --> 00:01:32.600 align:middle line:90% Have left it 00:01:32.600 --> 00:01:33.830 align:middle line:90% For where 00:01:33.830 --> 00:01:35.150 align:middle line:90% Oh sweet doom 00:01:35.150 --> 00:01:37.350 align:middle line:90% We are all going 00:01:37.350 --> 00:01:39.550 align:middle line:90% Then behind us 00:01:39.550 --> 00:01:40.260 align:middle line:90% We close 00:01:40.260 --> 00:01:41.460 align:middle line:90% The black door 00:01:41.460 --> 00:01:43.290 align:middle line:90% With the golden knob 00:01:43.290 --> 00:01:43.800 align:middle line:90% And sit 00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:44.670 align:middle line:90% In the great 00:01:44.670 --> 00:01:46.530 align:middle line:90% Chair morning light 00:01:46.530 --> 00:01:47.880 align:middle line:90% Through the shades 00:01:47.880 --> 00:01:48.720 align:middle line:90% Always makes 00:01:48.720 --> 00:01:49.830 align:middle line:90% Look like a dream 00:01:49.830 --> 00:01:52.450 align:middle line:90% Forest throne 00:01:52.450 --> 00:01:53.560 align:middle line:90% All around 00:01:53.560 --> 00:01:54.550 align:middle line:90% Our subjects 00:01:54.550 --> 00:01:56.050 align:middle line:90% The shadow trees 00:01:56.050 --> 00:01:57.280 align:middle line:90% Rise up 00:01:57.280 --> 00:01:58.570 align:middle line:90% Their private thoughts 00:01:58.570 --> 00:02:00.400 align:middle line:90% Filling the room 00:02:00.400 --> 00:02:01.870 align:middle line:90% I take them 00:02:01.870 --> 00:02:03.280 align:middle line:90% Like an animal 00:02:03.280 --> 00:02:04.600 align:middle line:90% With a gentle 00:02:04.600 --> 00:02:06.400 align:middle line:90% Ungrateful ceremony 00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:07.360 align:middle line:90% From a leaf 00:02:07.360 --> 00:02:08.440 align:middle line:90% Takes dew" 00:02:08.440 --> 00:02:15.460 align:middle line:90% 00:02:15.460 --> 00:02:18.333 align:middle line:84% It's completely tripping, not having slept, with an infant, 00:02:18.333 --> 00:02:19.750 align:middle line:84% obviously, when I wrote that poem. 00:02:19.750 --> 00:02:23.995 align:middle line:84% I was losing my mind, but it is that dream state 00:02:23.995 --> 00:02:25.120 align:middle line:90% when you have a little kid. 00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:27.578 align:middle line:84% It's the best, and you're kind of like-- the whole thing is 00:02:27.578 --> 00:02:32.010 align:middle line:84% a dream that you never wake up from.