WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.600 align:middle line:84% Tyler, I like I'm not going to reach 40 minutes, I can-- 00:00:03.600 --> 00:00:05.600 align:middle line:90% let's see. 00:00:05.600 --> 00:00:06.840 align:middle line:90% I'm almost done. 00:00:06.840 --> 00:00:07.700 align:middle line:90% I'm not used to-- 00:00:07.700 --> 00:00:09.360 align:middle line:90% I'm not used to reading-- 00:00:09.360 --> 00:00:13.340 align:middle line:84% poets are notorious for reading over time. 00:00:13.340 --> 00:00:17.200 align:middle line:84% I'm usually on the opposite end of the spectrum, 00:00:17.200 --> 00:00:19.040 align:middle line:90% under, so sorry. 00:00:19.040 --> 00:00:24.120 align:middle line:84% This is the last poem in O. And it 00:00:24.120 --> 00:00:29.880 align:middle line:84% is for Sur, which in English is Tyre, Lebanon, which is being 00:00:29.880 --> 00:00:34.480 align:middle line:90% bombarded daily as we speak. 00:00:34.480 --> 00:00:42.720 align:middle line:84% This is titled Morning Prayer for Sur, Lebanon, August 2018. 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:48.000 align:middle line:84% Thank you, God of coriander and spicy potato. 00:00:48.000 --> 00:00:51.200 align:middle line:90% Thank you, peeling wooden rails. 00:00:51.200 --> 00:00:53.840 align:middle line:90% Thank you, God of sea foam. 00:00:53.840 --> 00:00:57.320 align:middle line:84% Thank you, red buoy bobbing on the water's surface. 00:00:57.320 --> 00:01:00.160 align:middle line:84% Thank you, rock island in the distance. 00:01:00.160 --> 00:01:03.280 align:middle line:84% Thank you, statue of our lady of the seas. 00:01:03.280 --> 00:01:04.879 align:middle line:90% Thank you, harbor. 00:01:04.879 --> 00:01:08.040 align:middle line:84% Thank you, sumac and the tomato placenta. 00:01:08.040 --> 00:01:11.600 align:middle line:84% Thank you, blackberry jam on the peach flesh. 00:01:11.600 --> 00:01:14.180 align:middle line:84% Thank you, fumes of the motorbikes. 00:01:14.180 --> 00:01:16.880 align:middle line:84% Thank you, sombrero on the public beach. 00:01:16.880 --> 00:01:21.560 align:middle line:84% Thank you, newborn baby in the balcony of your mother's arms. 00:01:21.560 --> 00:01:23.600 align:middle line:84% Thank you, fat man with a big cross 00:01:23.600 --> 00:01:26.130 align:middle line:90% tanning on the plastic chair. 00:01:26.130 --> 00:01:29.470 align:middle line:84% Thank you, drenched clothes of the clotheslines. 00:01:29.470 --> 00:01:33.370 align:middle line:84% Thank you, flip-flop girl, shouting curses in the alley. 00:01:33.370 --> 00:01:36.150 align:middle line:84% Thank you, Mary of the small glass shrine. 00:01:36.150 --> 00:01:37.530 align:middle line:90% Thank you, seagulls. 00:01:37.530 --> 00:01:39.050 align:middle line:90% Thank you, horizon. 00:01:39.050 --> 00:01:40.970 align:middle line:90% You are the goddess. 00:01:40.970 --> 00:01:43.470 align:middle line:90% Thank you, cigarette butts. 00:01:43.470 --> 00:01:46.670 align:middle line:84% Thank you, broken ship wheel on the seaweed stairs. 00:01:46.670 --> 00:01:49.130 align:middle line:90% Thank you, full lipped cashier. 00:01:49.130 --> 00:01:53.050 align:middle line:84% Thank you, God of silicone and hyaluronic acid. 00:01:53.050 --> 00:01:55.070 align:middle line:90% Thank you, God of the sun. 00:01:55.070 --> 00:01:57.070 align:middle line:90% Thank you, God of the bedsheets. 00:01:57.070 --> 00:02:00.530 align:middle line:84% Thank you, Supermarket doorway, grandma with the braided hair. 00:02:00.530 --> 00:02:03.130 align:middle line:84% Thank you, girl behind the phone camera, 00:02:03.130 --> 00:02:06.510 align:middle line:84% searching for the God angle of your friend's face. 00:02:06.510 --> 00:02:09.590 align:middle line:84% Thank you, hairs of my husband's beard. 00:02:09.590 --> 00:02:12.310 align:middle line:90% Thank you, dough of my hips. 00:02:12.310 --> 00:02:14.550 align:middle line:90% Thank you, old flag in the wind. 00:02:14.550 --> 00:02:16.330 align:middle line:90% I hello you too. 00:02:16.330 --> 00:02:19.830 align:middle line:84% Thank you songs of the colors on the walls, on the doors, 00:02:19.830 --> 00:02:20.950 align:middle line:90% on the shutters. 00:02:20.950 --> 00:02:26.650 align:middle line:84% Thank you, waves, with your ceaseless sh sh. 00:02:26.650 --> 00:02:29.570 align:middle line:84% Thank you, stones of this fortress. 00:02:29.570 --> 00:02:31.410 align:middle line:90% What have you seen? 00:02:31.410 --> 00:02:33.290 align:middle line:90% What have you seen? 00:02:33.290 --> 00:02:35.850 align:middle line:90% Little boat, little boat. 00:02:35.850 --> 00:02:42.270 align:middle line:84% Goodbye, little world, little world, I love you. 00:02:42.270 --> 00:02:45.920 align:middle line:90% [APPLAUSE] 00:02:45.920 --> 00:02:52.000 align:middle line:90%