WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:01.610 align:middle line:90% 00:00:01.610 --> 00:00:05.250 align:middle line:84% And the last poem in Bright Dead Things, 00:00:05.250 --> 00:00:12.680 align:middle line:84% is this poem, which I think of as an apocalyptic love poem. 00:00:12.680 --> 00:00:16.580 align:middle line:84% But I've tried to stop saying apocalypse 00:00:16.580 --> 00:00:19.530 align:middle line:84% because I'm afraid that we've conjured it. 00:00:19.530 --> 00:00:20.210 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHS] 00:00:20.210 --> 00:00:25.320 align:middle line:84% I think that maybe poets have just said apocalypse too much. 00:00:25.320 --> 00:00:26.000 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHS] 00:00:26.000 --> 00:00:29.700 align:middle line:84% And if everything is a spell, I'm a little worried. 00:00:29.700 --> 00:00:32.836 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHS] 00:00:32.836 --> 00:00:33.740 align:middle line:90% 00:00:33.740 --> 00:00:36.890 align:middle line:90% The Conditional. 00:00:36.890 --> 00:00:41.030 align:middle line:90% Say tomorrow doesn't come. 00:00:41.030 --> 00:00:44.780 align:middle line:90% Say the moon becomes an icy pit. 00:00:44.780 --> 00:00:47.940 align:middle line:84% Say the sweet gum tree is petrified. 00:00:47.940 --> 00:00:50.940 align:middle line:84% Say the sun's a foul black tire fire. 00:00:50.940 --> 00:00:53.700 align:middle line:84% Say the owl's eyes are pinpricks. 00:00:53.700 --> 00:00:56.640 align:middle line:84% Say the raccoon's a hot tar stain. 00:00:56.640 --> 00:00:59.610 align:middle line:84% Say the shirt's plastic ditch litter. 00:00:59.610 --> 00:01:02.310 align:middle line:84% Say the kitchen's a cow's corpse. 00:01:02.310 --> 00:01:04.739 align:middle line:90% Say we never get to see it. 00:01:04.739 --> 00:01:09.540 align:middle line:84% Bright future, stuck like a bum star, never coming close, 00:01:09.540 --> 00:01:10.530 align:middle line:90% never dazzling. 00:01:10.530 --> 00:01:13.050 align:middle line:84% Say we never meet her, never him. 00:01:13.050 --> 00:01:17.340 align:middle line:84% Say we spend our last moments staring at each other, 00:01:17.340 --> 00:01:21.600 align:middle line:84% hands knotted together, clutching the dog, 00:01:21.600 --> 00:01:23.640 align:middle line:90% watching the sky burn. 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:26.930 align:middle line:90% Say it doesn't matter. 00:01:26.930 --> 00:01:29.900 align:middle line:90% Say that would be enough. 00:01:29.900 --> 00:01:37.340 align:middle line:84% Say you'd still want this: us alive, right here, 00:01:37.340 --> 00:01:39.790 align:middle line:90% feeling lucky. 00:01:39.790 --> 00:01:50.000 align:middle line:90%