WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:07.610 align:middle line:84% I'm going to skip to my fourth book called Bright Dead Things. 00:00:07.610 --> 00:00:11.420 align:middle line:84% And I keep forgetting these are library copies, 00:00:11.420 --> 00:00:13.956 align:middle line:84% and I have to be kinder to these pages. 00:00:13.956 --> 00:00:14.870 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHING] 00:00:14.870 --> 00:00:16.102 align:middle line:90% Sorry. 00:00:16.102 --> 00:00:17.185 align:middle line:90% I'll send you another one. 00:00:17.185 --> 00:00:20.870 align:middle line:90% 00:00:20.870 --> 00:00:25.970 align:middle line:84% But I thought I would begin with this poem, which is perhaps 00:00:25.970 --> 00:00:29.710 align:middle line:84% the most requested poem I have by young people. 00:00:29.710 --> 00:00:33.800 align:middle line:90% 00:00:33.800 --> 00:00:36.220 align:middle line:90% How to triumph like a girl. 00:00:36.220 --> 00:00:38.960 align:middle line:90% 00:00:38.960 --> 00:00:41.690 align:middle line:90% I like the lady horses best, 00:00:41.690 --> 00:00:44.790 align:middle line:90% how they make it all look easy, 00:00:44.790 --> 00:00:47.150 align:middle line:90% like running 40 miles per hour 00:00:47.150 --> 00:00:50.960 align:middle line:84% is as fun as taking a nap, or grass. 00:00:50.960 --> 00:00:54.140 align:middle line:90% I like their lady horse swagger, 00:00:54.140 --> 00:00:55.650 align:middle line:90% after winning. 00:00:55.650 --> 00:00:58.760 align:middle line:90% Ears up, girls, ears up. 00:00:58.760 --> 00:01:02.720 align:middle line:84% But mainly, let's be honest, I like 00:01:02.720 --> 00:01:04.590 align:middle line:90% that they're ladies. 00:01:04.590 --> 00:01:06.660 align:middle line:90% As if this big, 00:01:06.660 --> 00:01:11.490 align:middle line:84% dangerous animal is also a part of me. 00:01:11.490 --> 00:01:14.090 align:middle line:84% That somewhere inside the delicate 00:01:14.090 --> 00:01:16.490 align:middle line:90% skin of my body, there pumps 00:01:16.490 --> 00:01:20.630 align:middle line:90% an 8-pound female horse heart, 00:01:20.630 --> 00:01:25.790 align:middle line:84% giant with power, heavy with blood. 00:01:25.790 --> 00:01:27.560 align:middle line:90% Don't you want to believe it? 00:01:27.560 --> 00:01:29.780 align:middle line:84% Don't you want to lift my shirt and see 00:01:29.780 --> 00:01:33.740 align:middle line:90% the huge beating genius machine 00:01:33.740 --> 00:01:37.880 align:middle line:90% that thinks, no, it knows, 00:01:37.880 --> 00:01:42.290 align:middle line:90% it's going to come in first. 00:01:42.290 --> 00:01:45.640 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:01:45.640 --> 00:01:53.000 align:middle line:90%