WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:08.200 align:middle line:90% 00:00:08.200 --> 00:00:09.240 align:middle line:90% Thank you, Gabriel. 00:00:09.240 --> 00:00:10.720 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:10.720 --> 00:00:13.240 align:middle line:90% That was amazing. 00:00:13.240 --> 00:00:17.720 align:middle line:84% And it's always great when somebody taller than you 00:00:17.720 --> 00:00:18.940 align:middle line:90% says they look up to you. 00:00:18.940 --> 00:00:21.288 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:00:21.288 --> 00:00:22.680 align:middle line:90% 00:00:22.680 --> 00:00:25.360 align:middle line:84% Although it never occurred to me to say that before. 00:00:25.360 --> 00:00:25.880 align:middle line:90% Hello. 00:00:25.880 --> 00:00:30.560 align:middle line:84% Thanks for being here, and tolerating whatever the hell 00:00:30.560 --> 00:00:32.360 align:middle line:90% this is going to be. 00:00:32.360 --> 00:00:35.400 align:middle line:84% And I just want to thank the Poetry Center and Paola 00:00:35.400 --> 00:00:37.200 align:middle line:90% and Tyler and everybody. 00:00:37.200 --> 00:00:40.120 align:middle line:90% It's been a wonderful few days. 00:00:40.120 --> 00:00:45.140 align:middle line:84% I went out to that Agua Caliente Park that y'all got here. 00:00:45.140 --> 00:00:46.300 align:middle line:90% That's pretty cool. 00:00:46.300 --> 00:00:50.040 align:middle line:84% They don't have anything like that in New York. 00:00:50.040 --> 00:00:55.200 align:middle line:84% I saw the biggest snowy egret I've ever seen, I think, there. 00:00:55.200 --> 00:00:59.680 align:middle line:84% So I imagine the birds are being fed well 00:00:59.680 --> 00:01:01.120 align:middle line:90% in this part of Arizona. 00:01:01.120 --> 00:01:04.060 align:middle line:90% And, let's see. 00:01:04.060 --> 00:01:09.920 align:middle line:90% 00:01:09.920 --> 00:01:15.360 align:middle line:84% Oh, my phone buzzes, and I have it on the podium, 00:01:15.360 --> 00:01:17.440 align:middle line:90% you will hear it. 00:01:17.440 --> 00:01:20.040 align:middle line:90% So that's a good mic. 00:01:20.040 --> 00:01:24.020 align:middle line:84% All right, I'm going to need that, but not right this second. 00:01:24.020 --> 00:01:27.120 align:middle line:90% 00:01:27.120 --> 00:01:28.900 align:middle line:90% And is this loud enough? 00:01:28.900 --> 00:01:29.400 align:middle line:90% Yes. 00:01:29.400 --> 00:01:34.000 align:middle line:90% 00:01:34.000 --> 00:01:38.000 align:middle line:84% I'm going to read some poems from this book that 00:01:38.000 --> 00:01:43.640 align:middle line:84% got published about a year ago called Don't Forget To Love Me. 00:01:43.640 --> 00:01:45.140 align:middle line:84% I'm just going to say first, though, 00:01:45.140 --> 00:01:51.700 align:middle line:90% that I was 9 in that video. 00:01:51.700 --> 00:01:54.360 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:01:54.360 --> 00:01:56.160 align:middle line:90% It's blurry, so it could-- 00:01:56.160 --> 00:02:01.200 align:middle line:84% and I haven't-- my hair cut is the same for 15 years, so-- 00:02:01.200 --> 00:02:06.990 align:middle line:84% and the reason I got in it was because I 00:02:06.990 --> 00:02:08.990 align:middle line:84% liked getting autographs back then, mostly 00:02:08.990 --> 00:02:10.517 align:middle line:90% from baseball players. 00:02:10.517 --> 00:02:12.350 align:middle line:84% And so they were filming this Rolling Stones 00:02:12.350 --> 00:02:14.790 align:middle line:84% video on the block, and I told my dad, who was still 00:02:14.790 --> 00:02:17.707 align:middle line:84% alive at the time, Ted Berrigan, I said, 00:02:17.707 --> 00:02:19.290 align:middle line:84% I want to get Mick Jagger's autograph. 00:02:19.290 --> 00:02:23.690 align:middle line:84% I'm not sure I even knew who he was exactly at that point. 00:02:23.690 --> 00:02:27.830 align:middle line:84% And my dad said, well, if you're going to do that, 00:02:27.830 --> 00:02:33.550 align:middle line:84% and you should, let me give you a copy of one of my books, 00:02:33.550 --> 00:02:37.930 align:middle line:84% and go and see if you can trade it to him for an autograph. 00:02:37.930 --> 00:02:39.510 align:middle line:90% [LAUGHTER] 00:02:39.510 --> 00:02:42.410 align:middle line:84% So if the shot had been just a little lower, 00:02:42.410 --> 00:02:45.490 align:middle line:84% it would have showed me holding a copy of his book 00:02:45.490 --> 00:02:46.952 align:middle line:84% So Going Around Cities in my hand, 00:02:46.952 --> 00:02:49.410 align:middle line:84% because once I got out there and looked around, I was like, 00:02:49.410 --> 00:02:51.630 align:middle line:84% I'm not getting anywhere near this guy. 00:02:51.630 --> 00:02:55.950 align:middle line:84% Even though it was 1981 and it wasn't cordoned off, 00:02:55.950 --> 00:02:58.110 align:middle line:84% there were tons of people there, so-- 00:02:58.110 --> 00:03:02.790 align:middle line:84% Peter Tosh is in that video, I think. 00:03:02.790 --> 00:03:04.340 align:middle line:90% OK. 00:03:04.340 --> 00:03:05.000 align:middle line:90%