WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:00.940 align:middle line:90% 00:00:00.940 --> 00:00:03.630 align:middle line:84% San Francisco State, this was largely 00:00:03.630 --> 00:00:07.260 align:middle line:84% a matter of walking into the student lounge at about 1 00:00:07.260 --> 00:00:11.640 align:middle line:84% o'clock with about 250 students lounging, 00:00:11.640 --> 00:00:14.358 align:middle line:90% and then reading to them. 00:00:14.358 --> 00:00:16.650 align:middle line:84% And there were people there who weren't quite expecting 00:00:16.650 --> 00:00:18.950 align:middle line:90% the reading. 00:00:18.950 --> 00:00:19.450 align:middle line:90% What-- 00:00:19.450 --> 00:00:22.366 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:22.366 --> 00:00:25.290 align:middle line:90% 00:00:25.290 --> 00:00:27.250 align:middle line:84% One thing that occurred to me afterwards-- 00:00:27.250 --> 00:00:29.550 align:middle line:84% sometime I think I will have nerve enough 00:00:29.550 --> 00:00:33.660 align:middle line:84% to do this-- would be to go into the main lobby of a Conrad 00:00:33.660 --> 00:00:38.610 align:middle line:84% Hilton Hotel and read for about an hour, 00:00:38.610 --> 00:00:40.450 align:middle line:90% and see what would happen. 00:00:40.450 --> 00:00:42.915 align:middle line:84% I have a feeling something probably would happen. 00:00:42.915 --> 00:00:46.290 align:middle line:90% 00:00:46.290 --> 00:00:48.810 align:middle line:84% The interesting thing too about the lounge 00:00:48.810 --> 00:00:54.390 align:middle line:84% reading at San Francisco was there was a pop art exhibit on. 00:00:54.390 --> 00:00:59.040 align:middle line:84% There were huge apple pies made out of plaster. 00:00:59.040 --> 00:01:03.240 align:middle line:84% On my right there was a very large Uncle Sam enlistment 00:01:03.240 --> 00:01:07.140 align:middle line:90% poster saying, join the army. 00:01:07.140 --> 00:01:09.810 align:middle line:84% And on the left there were comic strip characters: Batman, 00:01:09.810 --> 00:01:13.590 align:middle line:90% Superman, and Wonder Woman. 00:01:13.590 --> 00:01:15.600 align:middle line:90% And I must say I felt at home. 00:01:15.600 --> 00:01:19.058 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:19.058 --> 00:01:23.510 align:middle line:90% 00:01:23.510 --> 00:01:26.480 align:middle line:90% I'm going to read-- 00:01:26.480 --> 00:01:28.992 align:middle line:84% the sheets that you have four poems on them. 00:01:28.992 --> 00:01:30.950 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read those poems roughly in order. 00:01:30.950 --> 00:01:33.335 align:middle line:84% There'll be one additional poem that I'll be reading. 00:01:33.335 --> 00:01:36.080 align:middle line:90% 00:01:36.080 --> 00:01:38.570 align:middle line:84% And then there'll be something of a pause 00:01:38.570 --> 00:01:39.800 align:middle line:90% so I can catch my breath. 00:01:39.800 --> 00:01:48.230 align:middle line:90% 00:01:48.230 --> 00:01:50.465 align:middle line:84% First poem is called "Holding Hands." 00:01:50.465 --> 00:01:53.090 align:middle line:90% 00:01:53.090 --> 00:01:58.013 align:middle line:84% This by the way is page one for the new book of poems. 00:01:58.013 --> 00:01:59.180 align:middle line:90% Seems a good place to start. 00:01:59.180 --> 00:02:02.460 align:middle line:90% 00:02:02.460 --> 00:02:05.400 align:middle line:90% Always, I am leaving people. 00:02:05.400 --> 00:02:09.360 align:middle line:84% Missing them, going out to them and loving them. 00:02:09.360 --> 00:02:13.350 align:middle line:84% Holding hands, doing turnabouts, ah! 00:02:13.350 --> 00:02:17.460 align:middle line:84% Going to movies with them, clowning, reverential, 00:02:17.460 --> 00:02:19.020 align:middle line:90% an enthusiast. 00:02:19.020 --> 00:02:20.340 align:middle line:90% For what? 00:02:20.340 --> 00:02:23.520 align:middle line:84% The certain good of sleeping with them. 00:02:23.520 --> 00:02:27.060 align:middle line:84% Holding them, climbing into their bellies. 00:02:27.060 --> 00:02:29.310 align:middle line:90% I am present in them. 00:02:29.310 --> 00:02:32.430 align:middle line:84% Approving their skins' most foolish 00:02:32.430 --> 00:02:37.650 align:middle line:84% hopes, warmest impulses, and the loss of vanity. 00:02:37.650 --> 00:02:42.600 align:middle line:84% The presence of which-- and all is lost. 00:02:42.600 --> 00:02:45.120 align:middle line:90% Huge stars are falling. 00:02:45.120 --> 00:02:47.820 align:middle line:90% Great owls circle above us. 00:02:47.820 --> 00:02:50.940 align:middle line:90% We sit here in wonderment. 00:02:50.940 --> 00:02:52.620 align:middle line:90% Is there anyone? 00:02:52.620 --> 00:02:53.910 align:middle line:90% Anyone? 00:02:53.910 --> 00:02:56.910 align:middle line:90% Anyone has not been with? 00:02:56.910 --> 00:03:00.840 align:middle line:84% The truth is, nothing else matters. 00:03:00.840 --> 00:03:05.130 align:middle line:90% You are, I am, he is. 00:03:05.130 --> 00:03:08.220 align:middle line:84% The world will please come to order. 00:03:08.220 --> 00:03:11.400 align:middle line:90% Be seated, hold hands. 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:12.540 align:middle line:90% No, it won't. 00:03:12.540 --> 00:03:13.500 align:middle line:90% No, it won't. 00:03:13.500 --> 00:03:15.120 align:middle line:90% Don't be scared. 00:03:15.120 --> 00:03:16.950 align:middle line:90% Cover up my love. 00:03:16.950 --> 00:03:20.730 align:middle line:84% We will all of us never not be in you. 00:03:20.730 --> 00:03:24.500 align:middle line:90% My love loves the first. 00:03:24.500 --> 00:03:25.000 align:middle line:90%