WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.486 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:00:03.486 --> 00:00:04.490 align:middle line:90% 00:00:04.490 --> 00:00:10.280 align:middle line:90% That was a young Ada. 00:00:10.280 --> 00:00:12.440 align:middle line:90% Oh, I'm still young. 00:00:12.440 --> 00:00:14.840 align:middle line:84% Krista Tippett would give me a hard. 00:00:14.840 --> 00:00:17.248 align:middle line:84% She would give me a nudge and be like, don't say that. 00:00:17.248 --> 00:00:18.040 align:middle line:90% You're still young. 00:00:18.040 --> 00:00:21.320 align:middle line:90% 00:00:21.320 --> 00:00:25.490 align:middle line:84% And the other poem I want to read 00:00:25.490 --> 00:00:36.775 align:middle line:84% is a poem about the bifurcated divide of this country. 00:00:36.775 --> 00:00:39.320 align:middle line:90% 00:00:39.320 --> 00:00:44.330 align:middle line:90% The Frontier of Never Leaving. 00:00:44.330 --> 00:00:48.830 align:middle line:84% If the wound you cover is made of sheet metal and iron 00:00:48.830 --> 00:00:53.160 align:middle line:84% gates left over from the junkyard of forever worried, 00:00:53.160 --> 00:00:59.810 align:middle line:84% and the school of always broken, here, I have saved you a seat. 00:00:59.810 --> 00:01:02.780 align:middle line:84% If you have hidden your outlawed books 00:01:02.780 --> 00:01:07.970 align:middle line:84% in your mattress and your outlawed thoughts in your hands, 00:01:07.970 --> 00:01:11.150 align:middle line:90% here, I will give you refuge. 00:01:11.150 --> 00:01:13.800 align:middle line:84% This is what I heard underneath it all, 00:01:13.800 --> 00:01:18.980 align:middle line:84% underneath and in the beginning, but now let's move to Canada. 00:01:18.980 --> 00:01:21.290 align:middle line:90% I hear it's nice there. 00:01:21.290 --> 00:01:24.410 align:middle line:84% And they don't kill each other as often. 00:01:24.410 --> 00:01:28.400 align:middle line:84% I can even forgive them for speaking French. 00:01:28.400 --> 00:01:31.700 align:middle line:84% Really not all of them speak French. 00:01:31.700 --> 00:01:33.440 align:middle line:90% But would I miss it? 00:01:33.440 --> 00:01:38.180 align:middle line:84% If I moved to Canada and there is no war in the spring, 00:01:38.180 --> 00:01:41.640 align:middle line:84% I won't miss Iowa, that's for certain. 00:01:41.640 --> 00:01:43.760 align:middle line:90% But that's the only thing. 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:47.670 align:middle line:84% The field keeps growing longer, like a veil between us, 00:01:47.670 --> 00:01:52.050 align:middle line:84% the mountains like sutures on the map, and yet they are ours. 00:01:52.050 --> 00:01:56.510 align:middle line:84% The way the mustard can be ours off the highway and windmills 00:01:56.510 --> 00:01:58.050 align:middle line:90% in the deserts and roads. 00:01:58.050 --> 00:02:02.520 align:middle line:84% Even roads, barbed wire between us, fences between us, 00:02:02.520 --> 00:02:04.690 align:middle line:84% the roadrunner has run into the river. 00:02:04.690 --> 00:02:07.000 align:middle line:90% And misters, you do not care. 00:02:07.000 --> 00:02:10.840 align:middle line:84% Another puzzle piece of my American map has unfolded. 00:02:10.840 --> 00:02:13.590 align:middle line:84% I am the only thing that fits together here 00:02:13.590 --> 00:02:16.300 align:middle line:84% in this frontier of never leaving. 00:02:16.300 --> 00:02:21.130 align:middle line:84% Today I am going to play the record of the revolution. 00:02:21.130 --> 00:02:23.440 align:middle line:84% Everybody is going to sing along. 00:02:23.440 --> 00:02:27.930 align:middle line:84% And the more we turn it up, the less the flag will wave over you 00:02:27.930 --> 00:02:31.350 align:middle line:84% and the more it will become a swallowtail 00:02:31.350 --> 00:02:36.370 align:middle line:84% and migrate to our houses, the little ones in the back, 00:02:36.370 --> 00:02:39.310 align:middle line:84% the ones with the lights in the window. 00:02:39.310 --> 00:02:44.100 align:middle line:84% Look, you can see them opening now, opening their doors 00:02:44.100 --> 00:02:46.960 align:middle line:90% in the fog. 00:02:46.960 --> 00:02:50.390 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:50.390 --> 00:02:55.290 align:middle line:90% 00:02:55.290 --> 00:02:58.115 align:middle line:84% Strange to see these poems ring true. 00:02:58.115 --> 00:03:02.490 align:middle line:90% 00:03:02.490 --> 00:03:05.500 align:middle line:90% Poetry is a little rebellion. 00:03:05.500 --> 00:03:06.000 align:middle line:90%