1 00:00:06,900 --> 00:00:09,520 Kicking things off, and so consider 2 00:00:09,520 --> 00:00:13,740 yourselves kicked, is our reader today Paul E. 3 00:00:13,740 --> 00:00:18,220 Dickey. Mr. Dickey comes to creative 4 00:00:18,220 --> 00:00:20,349 writing or maybe back to creative 5 00:00:20,349 --> 00:00:23,650 writing from a career in data processing 6 00:00:23,650 --> 00:00:29,070 and from degree work in the world of 7 00:00:29,070 --> 00:00:32,850 philosophy. In fact he teaches at 8 00:00:32,850 --> 00:00:36,010 Metropolitan Community College up in 9 00:00:36,010 --> 00:00:38,020 Omaha and what he teaches is not 10 00:00:38,020 --> 00:00:40,210 literature or creative writing but 11 00:00:40,210 --> 00:00:42,789 Introduction to Philosophy, Critical 12 00:00:42,789 --> 00:00:46,269 Reasoning, Introduction to Ethics, so that 13 00:00:46,269 --> 00:00:48,309 might be interesting talking points for 14 00:00:48,309 --> 00:00:50,170 some of you as you're milling around and 15 00:00:50,170 --> 00:00:53,379 purchasing his book and chatting with 16 00:00:53,379 --> 00:00:58,510 him after the reading. Oh, he's also, this 17 00:00:58,510 --> 00:01:02,050 is interesting, too, doing theatrical work. 18 00:01:02,050 --> 00:01:04,629 He's written full-length plays, one-act 19 00:01:04,629 --> 00:01:07,900 plays, and what his vita calls ten-minute 20 00:01:07,900 --> 00:01:11,050 plays. I'm all in favor of that by the 21 00:01:11,050 --> 00:01:14,740 way. In fact I've written some one minute 22 00:01:14,740 --> 00:01:17,650 plays and I'm thinking of pioneering the 23 00:01:17,650 --> 00:01:20,530 world in which I actually write deficit 24 00:01:20,530 --> 00:01:23,650 creative writing. Flashier fiction and no 25 00:01:23,650 --> 00:01:26,170 minute plays and then readers have to 26 00:01:26,170 --> 00:01:28,660 pay me money for the amount of time they 27 00:01:28,660 --> 00:01:31,180 haven't spent reading my work. Just 28 00:01:31,180 --> 00:01:33,520 tell me what you think about it when 29 00:01:33,520 --> 00:01:37,870 you're milling around afterwards. In addition to poems 30 00:01:37,870 --> 00:01:39,820 in a number of journals, there's a long 31 00:01:39,820 --> 00:01:42,340 list here, some of the best-known of 32 00:01:42,340 --> 00:01:44,440 which would be Crab Orchard Review, 33 00:01:44,440 --> 00:01:47,020 Midwest Quarterly, the Southern Poetry 34 00:01:47,020 --> 00:01:49,630 Review, Mr. Dickey is the author of a 35 00:01:49,630 --> 00:01:52,510 number of books, the most recent of which 36 00:01:52,510 --> 00:01:56,530 is the rather nice-looking They Say This 37 00:01:56,530 --> 00:01:59,680 is How Death Came Into the World, it is 38 00:01:59,680 --> 00:02:01,340 with a few of 39 00:02:01,340 --> 00:02:04,369 titles on that table available for sale. 40 00:02:04,369 --> 00:02:06,950 Those of you who are in an MFA program 41 00:02:06,950 --> 00:02:08,780 and dream of doing a book of your own 42 00:02:08,780 --> 00:02:10,940 one day might want to keep in mind that 43 00:02:10,940 --> 00:02:15,650 what goes around comes around. I don't 44 00:02:15,650 --> 00:02:16,940 know what Mr. Dickey is going to be 45 00:02:16,940 --> 00:02:20,599 reading today, it may be newer work, it 46 00:02:20,599 --> 00:02:23,209 may be older work, but I can tell you for 47 00:02:23,209 --> 00:02:25,819 a fact that there's some formally 48 00:02:25,819 --> 00:02:28,220 interesting stuff in this book. It's a 49 00:02:28,220 --> 00:02:30,739 book of poetry but a lot of it takes the 50 00:02:30,739 --> 00:02:33,560 shape of prose poetry some of it perhaps 51 00:02:33,560 --> 00:02:36,530 resembles flash fiction and in fact one 52 00:02:36,530 --> 00:02:38,180 of the poems for the end of the book is 53 00:02:38,180 --> 00:02:41,420 called, Class, is This a Prose Poem or 54 00:02:41,420 --> 00:02:45,920 Flash Fiction? and many of the poems have 55 00:02:45,920 --> 00:02:49,940 that kind of wry, ironic twist to them 56 00:02:49,940 --> 00:02:53,090 bringing together a wealth of topical 57 00:02:53,090 --> 00:02:54,709 reference that goes from well-known 58 00:02:54,709 --> 00:02:58,069 classical philosophers, to people from 59 00:02:58,069 --> 00:03:00,799 out of contemporary popular culture. 60 00:03:00,799 --> 00:03:03,680 Frank Sinatra, Lennon and McCartney, they 61 00:03:03,680 --> 00:03:05,569 take their place in these poems along 62 00:03:05,569 --> 00:03:07,910 with Heidegger, for instance, so it's a 63 00:03:07,910 --> 00:03:10,130 lively mix. I suspect it's going to be a 64 00:03:10,130 --> 00:03:11,989 lively reading and I would like 65 00:03:11,989 --> 00:03:16,480 everybody to turn off your cell phones... 66 00:03:18,990 --> 00:03:24,819 or I'll hurt you... and put your hands 67 00:03:24,819 --> 00:03:28,890 together for a very warm welcome to Mr. Paul Dickey. 68 00:03:38,070 --> 00:03:42,160 Thank you, Albert. Thank you, Margaret and 69 00:03:42,160 --> 00:03:44,530 Melissa, for inviting me to read today. 70 00:03:44,530 --> 00:03:47,860 I'm very, very pleased to be reading 71 00:03:47,860 --> 00:03:51,220 today at Wichita State University. This 72 00:03:51,220 --> 00:03:55,420 is really where I began a dastardly act 73 00:03:55,420 --> 00:03:59,410 of writing poetry, I started as an 74 00:03:59,410 --> 00:04:01,209 undergraduate here at Wichita State 75 00:04:01,209 --> 00:04:03,370 University I took my first poetry 76 00:04:03,370 --> 00:04:08,100 workshop here in 1968 with the poet 77 00:04:08,100 --> 00:04:12,940 Michael van Walleghen, I hope some of you know him. He 78 00:04:12,940 --> 00:04:14,519 just talking to recently retired from 79 00:04:14,519 --> 00:04:18,730 Illinois. That was before there was an MFA 80 00:04:18,730 --> 00:04:22,900 program here. If you know Michael you 81 00:04:22,900 --> 00:04:25,180 will know that I probably got a very 82 00:04:25,180 --> 00:04:30,250 heavy dose of Rilke and W.D. Snodgrass, he 83 00:04:30,250 --> 00:04:32,500 was Michael van Walleghen's instructor, 84 00:04:32,500 --> 00:04:35,500 so there's probably some confessional 85 00:04:35,500 --> 00:04:37,930 trend in these poems but these poems are 86 00:04:37,930 --> 00:04:43,060 not, I repeat, not autobiographical. There 87 00:04:43,060 --> 00:04:45,250 are two absolute no-nos in Van 88 00:04:45,250 --> 00:04:48,700 Walleghen's workshop back in 1968 and that 89 00:04:48,700 --> 00:04:51,479 was first of all your poems should never 90 00:04:51,479 --> 00:04:58,450 be clever, never be clever. I think I'm 91 00:04:58,450 --> 00:04:59,920 going to violate that today. 92 00:04:59,920 --> 00:05:04,270 They should also not be sentimental and 93 00:05:04,270 --> 00:05:06,920 one of the things that he kept preaching 94 00:05:06,920 --> 00:05:11,420 that Snodgrass had solved for us is the way 95 00:05:11,420 --> 00:05:14,620 to be personal without being sentimental. 96 00:05:14,620 --> 00:05:18,320 Well I might violate that too. After 97 00:05:18,320 --> 00:05:21,620 graduating from WSU in 1970, 98 00:05:21,620 --> 00:05:23,480 I went to Indiana University and 99 00:05:23,480 --> 00:05:27,080 studied philosophy of science. It was a 100 00:05:27,080 --> 00:05:29,900 great experience I learned a lot, met a 101 00:05:29,900 --> 00:05:34,550 lot of contemporary philosophers, but I 102 00:05:34,550 --> 00:05:37,100 never got over the bug of writing. I 103 00:05:37,100 --> 00:05:40,340 wanted to write and not do philosophy so 104 00:05:40,340 --> 00:05:43,790 I came back to the WSU in 1973. Van Walleghen 105 00:05:43,790 --> 00:05:50,480 was gone but I met Ben Santos. If 106 00:05:50,480 --> 00:05:53,000 you know much about Ben Santos, he was a 107 00:05:53,000 --> 00:05:55,910 excellent instructor, very encouraging 108 00:05:55,910 --> 00:06:00,820 and helped me make a transition from 109 00:06:00,820 --> 00:06:04,820 lineal poetry, some old kind of poetry, 110 00:06:04,820 --> 00:06:07,810 confessional poetry, even into prose, and 111 00:06:07,810 --> 00:06:13,419 fiction. Ben gave me the credit that to 112 00:06:13,419 --> 00:06:16,880 give myself permission to write and 113 00:06:16,880 --> 00:06:19,430 that's what I think was highly of 114 00:06:19,430 --> 00:06:21,290 important at the time. I also studied 115 00:06:21,290 --> 00:06:24,860 poetry with Bruce Cutler was here and 116 00:06:24,860 --> 00:06:26,600 these are the early days the formation 117 00:06:26,600 --> 00:06:27,950 of the MFA program if you're familiar 118 00:06:27,950 --> 00:06:31,040 with the history. At the time I was 119 00:06:31,040 --> 00:06:32,870 really more interested in some of the 120 00:06:32,870 --> 00:06:37,820 new poets, Greg Kuzma, James Tate, and some 121 00:06:37,820 --> 00:06:41,919 young poet named Albert Goldbarth. 122 00:06:42,790 --> 00:06:46,010 At that at the time you probably would 123 00:06:46,010 --> 00:06:47,570 have seen Albert all the time in the Ark 124 00:06:47,570 --> 00:06:49,910 River Review which is a journal that 125 00:06:49,910 --> 00:06:52,100 was put out by some professors at Wichita 126 00:06:52,100 --> 00:06:54,560 State and he hogged all of the space 127 00:06:54,560 --> 00:06:57,260 and I couldn't get into it. Ok I won't bore you 128 00:06:57,260 --> 00:06:59,420 anymore with all of those stories 129 00:06:59,420 --> 00:07:01,940 but if you wanted to talk about that 130 00:07:01,940 --> 00:07:03,830 catch me after the the reading I'd love to talk. 131 00:07:03,830 --> 00:07:08,690 I'm going to start reading today some of my 132 00:07:08,690 --> 00:07:13,550 prose poems out of my book, They Say 133 00:07:13,550 --> 00:07:15,820 This is How Death Came into the World. 134 00:07:15,820 --> 00:07:20,390 The first poem is entitled A Bad Break. 135 00:07:20,390 --> 00:07:23,150 It's a poem about the New York Yankees 136 00:07:23,150 --> 00:07:29,810 and Lou Gehrig, who, Lou Gehrig said I'm 137 00:07:29,810 --> 00:07:32,300 the luckiest man in the world, I just got 138 00:07:32,300 --> 00:07:36,370 a bad break. This is called A Bad Break. 139 00:07:36,370 --> 00:07:41,630 Lou Gehrig is crying. Lou Gehrig is crying 140 00:07:41,630 --> 00:07:45,770 for every story in New York City. Lou 141 00:07:45,770 --> 00:07:47,720 Gehrig is wiping down every bleacher 142 00:07:47,720 --> 00:07:51,920 seat in Yankee Stadium with his salt. Lou 143 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:57,920 Gehrig. Lou Gehrig. He has the right. He 144 00:07:57,920 --> 00:08:02,330 banged everyone the homer. DiMaggio 145 00:08:02,330 --> 00:08:04,670 can't believe the greatest ballplayer he 146 00:08:04,670 --> 00:08:09,980 ever played with is crying. Gehrig once hid 147 00:08:09,980 --> 00:08:15,340 behind Babe. Lou Gehirg is crying. 148 00:08:15,340 --> 00:08:18,100 It fills every stein and mug in the 149 00:08:18,100 --> 00:08:23,910 Bronx. Gehrig wanted to play in every game. 150 00:08:23,910 --> 00:08:27,870 DiMaggio wants a hit in every game. 151 00:08:27,870 --> 00:08:31,540 DiMaggio marries a bomb who will sleep 152 00:08:31,540 --> 00:08:36,099 with a president. Lou Gehrig is crying up 153 00:08:36,099 --> 00:08:39,610 and down Broadway. He just got a bad 154 00:08:39,610 --> 00:08:43,390 break, he says he is the luckiest man in 155 00:08:43,390 --> 00:08:47,650 the world. The Babe and Gehrig are hugging 156 00:08:47,650 --> 00:08:50,860 like sisters. They don't speak to each 157 00:08:50,860 --> 00:08:54,400 other. Gehrig's mother said something once 158 00:08:54,400 --> 00:09:01,200 about Babe's wife. Lou Gehrig is crying. 159 00:09:01,200 --> 00:09:05,980 DiMaggio still loves Marilyn. He is 160 00:09:05,980 --> 00:09:09,940 laying flowers on a grave. They were 161 00:09:09,940 --> 00:09:14,230 going to be married again. Lou Gehrig is 162 00:09:14,230 --> 00:09:17,770 crying. Lou Gehrig is crying down the 163 00:09:17,770 --> 00:09:19,720 financial district where someday the big 164 00:09:19,720 --> 00:09:22,000 bucks will build our future of the 165 00:09:22,000 --> 00:09:25,839 World Trade Center. Casey says DiMaggio 166 00:09:25,839 --> 00:09:28,390 won't play ball if he can't play ball the 167 00:09:28,390 --> 00:09:30,610 way Joe DiMaggio is expected to play 168 00:09:30,610 --> 00:09:33,450 ball and it's only to take the money. 169 00:09:33,450 --> 00:09:37,550 Joe DiMaggio is an American hero. 170 00:09:37,550 --> 00:09:40,050 Joe DiMaggio's father was named 171 00:09:40,050 --> 00:09:46,890 Giuseppe, in San Francisco, in 1942, that 172 00:09:46,890 --> 00:09:54,890 took guts. Lou Gehrig is crying. Ruth. Gehrig. 173 00:09:54,890 --> 00:09:58,910 DiMaggio, now the Commerce Kid, like Babe, 174 00:09:58,910 --> 00:10:01,530 wants to hit a home run off every broad 175 00:10:01,530 --> 00:10:04,920 in the city. His dad gave him a 176 00:10:04,920 --> 00:10:07,590 baseball when he was hours old but 177 00:10:07,590 --> 00:10:10,410 sometimes Mickey Charles preferred a 178 00:10:10,410 --> 00:10:14,510 bottle. The Mick needs your liver, Al. 179 00:10:14,510 --> 00:10:18,500 He and Billy and Whitey for a while 180 00:10:18,500 --> 00:10:22,730 drank up all of Gehrig's tears. 181 00:10:24,550 --> 00:10:27,910 The next poem I'll read is entitled, Because 182 00:10:27,910 --> 00:10:29,830 It Is My Heart, I'm sure you'll recognize that 183 00:10:29,830 --> 00:10:32,649 as Stephen Crane. I noticed, as I was 184 00:10:32,649 --> 00:10:36,010 preparing today, that your MFA reading 185 00:10:36,010 --> 00:10:39,269 list includes a complete poems of Crane, 186 00:10:39,269 --> 00:10:41,829 doesn't say if it means Stephen or not 187 00:10:41,829 --> 00:10:44,370 but I'm just, I'm going to think it does. 188 00:10:44,370 --> 00:10:47,230 This poem is entitled Because It Is My 189 00:10:47,230 --> 00:10:51,490 Heart. I was to have lunch with the 190 00:10:51,490 --> 00:10:55,209 complete poems of Stephen Crane. the 191 00:10:55,209 --> 00:10:57,130 department chair had arranged everything. 192 00:10:57,130 --> 00:10:59,709 I didn't know if I would recognize 193 00:10:59,709 --> 00:11:04,060 Stephen anymore. For many years no one 194 00:11:04,060 --> 00:11:08,100 seemed to know what had happened to him. 195 00:11:08,100 --> 00:11:13,300 Some even thought maybe he had died. Some 196 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:16,450 of the new faculty thought maybe he had 197 00:11:16,450 --> 00:11:21,660 never lived. Stephen was late, 198 00:11:21,660 --> 00:11:25,450 didn't bring all the poems and wouldn't 199 00:11:25,450 --> 00:11:29,020 say grace but the world wars that it 200 00:11:29,020 --> 00:11:31,779 had intervened since we had last met appeared 201 00:11:31,779 --> 00:11:35,740 to have been kind to him. He glared at 202 00:11:35,740 --> 00:11:39,100 the maitre d' and the menu. Three little 203 00:11:39,100 --> 00:11:41,709 birds in a row, pitched perched on his 204 00:11:41,709 --> 00:11:45,730 shoulder. All hour they sang and they were 205 00:11:45,730 --> 00:11:47,370 about to sing, 206 00:11:47,370 --> 00:11:51,089 they coaxed me also to sing, to raise my 207 00:11:51,089 --> 00:11:52,950 voice in the spirit of Whitman and 208 00:11:52,950 --> 00:11:56,970 Dickinson but no longer in chorus with 209 00:11:56,970 --> 00:12:02,580 the divine. I told him I wanted to raise 210 00:12:02,580 --> 00:12:05,760 a toast to the supreme fiction to the 211 00:12:05,760 --> 00:12:08,820 Wallace Stevens century and write this 212 00:12:08,820 --> 00:12:12,300 poem someday. The birds laughed out loud 213 00:12:12,300 --> 00:12:16,430 at me. He muttered mostly to himself, 214 00:12:16,430 --> 00:12:21,960 "And to think Howells called my lines 215 00:12:21,960 --> 00:12:26,010 prose poems." I could not help but notice 216 00:12:26,010 --> 00:12:31,850 the bus boy, aged about 14, was me. 217 00:12:31,850 --> 00:12:34,940 George's mother did not know he was here 218 00:12:34,940 --> 00:12:37,410 she had dropped him off at church school 219 00:12:37,410 --> 00:12:39,300 just a few hours before a few blocks 220 00:12:39,300 --> 00:12:46,320 away. George, I call him that because that 221 00:12:46,320 --> 00:12:49,710 is the boy's name whispered in hushed 222 00:12:49,710 --> 00:12:55,410 tones. Stephen Crane. Oh Stephen Crane. I 223 00:12:55,410 --> 00:12:59,100 know where the little church is. The 224 00:12:59,100 --> 00:13:03,980 apartment were mohter's God once lived. 225 00:13:05,929 --> 00:13:11,100 Okay, so Wichita, Kansas the home of the 226 00:13:11,100 --> 00:13:16,949 BTK killer, right? It's an interesting story 227 00:13:16,949 --> 00:13:22,350 to me and very personal too because I went 228 00:13:22,350 --> 00:13:26,069 to school with his wife for my fourth 229 00:13:26,069 --> 00:13:29,970 grade through senior in high school and 230 00:13:29,970 --> 00:13:34,519 her name was Dietz and my name is Dickey. 231 00:13:34,519 --> 00:13:37,169 So you can imagine what unimaginative 232 00:13:37,169 --> 00:13:39,539 school teachers with our alphabetical 233 00:13:39,539 --> 00:13:43,829 seating charts did. I usually sat next to 234 00:13:43,829 --> 00:13:50,489 her in class for a long time, so I tried in 235 00:13:50,489 --> 00:13:53,939 this very short prose poem to 236 00:13:53,939 --> 00:13:57,149 establish some of that terror. The 237 00:13:57,149 --> 00:14:03,029 Husband's Blocked Backyard Shed. I would 238 00:14:03,029 --> 00:14:07,910 tell you what he keeps there if I knew. 239 00:14:07,910 --> 00:14:12,929 My sisters say I would deny that snow 240 00:14:12,929 --> 00:14:17,220 all winter covers the metal shed for the 241 00:14:17,220 --> 00:14:20,309 shiny lock has been opened time and time 242 00:14:20,309 --> 00:14:27,329 again. Their eyes snap. Girl, there have 243 00:14:27,329 --> 00:14:30,460 been murders in the neighborhood. 244 00:14:30,460 --> 00:14:36,529 All I know is all that I do not know is 245 00:14:36,529 --> 00:14:40,010 the next best thing to love and that when 246 00:14:40,010 --> 00:14:43,940 his hands surprise me in the dark and he 247 00:14:43,940 --> 00:14:49,270 says something ordinary at last he is close, 248 00:14:49,270 --> 00:14:54,040 closer than whatever it is he is. 249 00:14:58,370 --> 00:15:02,210 Now this next poem has a lot of unsavory 250 00:15:02,210 --> 00:15:06,080 characters in it. Characters such as my 251 00:15:06,080 --> 00:15:12,670 wife's image of me, my image of myself, 252 00:15:12,670 --> 00:15:16,160 a poor image of me, those kind of unsavory 253 00:15:16,160 --> 00:15:21,880 characters. This poem's entitled, Images of. 254 00:15:21,970 --> 00:15:27,950 My wife's image of me and my image of 255 00:15:27,950 --> 00:15:31,970 myself met for a drink and to have a 256 00:15:31,970 --> 00:15:35,060 heart-to-heart. We were going to get 257 00:15:35,060 --> 00:15:39,800 things ironed out, but at the club we 258 00:15:39,800 --> 00:15:43,310 bumped into the lovers, my image of 259 00:15:43,310 --> 00:15:48,770 her and her image of herself but 260 00:15:48,770 --> 00:15:51,520 surely were not expecting to see us. 261 00:15:51,520 --> 00:15:54,680 They were with their boyfriends, 262 00:15:54,680 --> 00:15:59,470 her image of him and his image of himself. 263 00:15:59,470 --> 00:16:03,790 His image of himself said something rude 264 00:16:03,790 --> 00:16:08,750 to my image of myself and that seemed to 265 00:16:08,750 --> 00:16:13,990 be in cahoots with my wife's image of me. 266 00:16:15,420 --> 00:16:20,040 My image of her seemed to be embarrassed 267 00:16:20,040 --> 00:16:24,740 and ashamed of my image of myself and 268 00:16:24,740 --> 00:16:29,600 then she went home with her image of me. 269 00:16:29,600 --> 00:16:32,700 His image of her walked in the door at 270 00:16:32,700 --> 00:16:35,550 the time, at that time, and wanted to have 271 00:16:35,550 --> 00:16:37,290 it out with anyone who wanted to have a 272 00:16:37,290 --> 00:16:41,180 talk with them. The only one that did was 273 00:16:41,180 --> 00:16:45,930 my image of her. My wife and I arrived 274 00:16:45,930 --> 00:16:48,390 shortly thereafter but left right away 275 00:16:48,390 --> 00:16:52,500 because of all the commotion. If at all 276 00:16:52,500 --> 00:16:55,260 possible, I particularly wanted to avoid 277 00:16:55,260 --> 00:16:59,870 running into my wife's image of herself. 278 00:17:04,230 --> 00:17:06,240 When it all comes down to the last 279 00:17:06,240 --> 00:17:11,429 resort our star leader is truth. 280 00:17:11,429 --> 00:17:17,250 Although on occasion we may keep him 281 00:17:17,250 --> 00:17:21,000 warming up in the bullpen, rest his 282 00:17:21,000 --> 00:17:25,319 knuckleball, doubt that he exists, fine 283 00:17:25,319 --> 00:17:28,130 him for showing up late for pre-games 284 00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:30,830 consult with a general manager about 285 00:17:30,830 --> 00:17:35,910 our options on his contract. After all, 286 00:17:35,910 --> 00:17:40,380 dear, it is our life and no we didn't 287 00:17:40,380 --> 00:17:44,130 mean to have it all happen like this, so 288 00:17:44,130 --> 00:17:45,750 what right does he have signing 289 00:17:45,750 --> 00:17:47,880 autographs for the little kids to sleep 290 00:17:47,880 --> 00:17:50,429 with, when we may be going into extra 291 00:17:50,429 --> 00:17:56,070 innings, I confess he sleeps with the third 292 00:17:56,070 --> 00:17:59,309 baseman's wife. The manager knows these 293 00:17:59,309 --> 00:18:03,918 things but I have a team to think of. 294 00:18:12,010 --> 00:18:16,770 How You Prove Anything and Everything. 295 00:18:16,770 --> 00:18:20,580 Faith prowls the accident scene 296 00:18:20,580 --> 00:18:25,360 hawking its wares, a shyster in search 297 00:18:25,360 --> 00:18:30,870 of clients. Police scour for evidence. 298 00:18:30,870 --> 00:18:33,640 Anthropologists dig for 299 00:18:33,640 --> 00:18:36,610 Darwinian Theory, anything to tell the 300 00:18:36,610 --> 00:18:41,290 press, but the facts are two people were 301 00:18:41,290 --> 00:18:45,940 dead and a stranger called 911 and saved 302 00:18:45,940 --> 00:18:50,470 my life tonight. Yes, two people, one I 303 00:18:50,470 --> 00:18:53,980 will never know and the other forever 304 00:18:53,980 --> 00:19:00,180 all my life and she me all her life. 305 00:19:00,180 --> 00:19:04,210 Creationists say God's will, isn't it 306 00:19:04,210 --> 00:19:08,920 obvious but witnesses say that this oil 307 00:19:08,920 --> 00:19:13,720 has existed millions of years made this 308 00:19:13,720 --> 00:19:17,500 car skid. I can't buy the theory in 309 00:19:17,500 --> 00:19:21,700 this marketplace. A kid in ice cream 310 00:19:21,700 --> 00:19:25,360 truck rings a bell and sings along with 311 00:19:25,360 --> 00:19:28,780 the tune hey come on you gotta have 312 00:19:28,780 --> 00:19:33,030 faith. Pascal tries to lay down a bet 313 00:19:33,030 --> 00:19:37,690 but before he can people fight and shove 314 00:19:37,690 --> 00:19:40,810 like Christmas about the kids inventory 315 00:19:40,810 --> 00:19:43,299 on credit. 316 00:19:43,299 --> 00:19:46,820 Pascal's bet is the argument for the 317 00:19:46,820 --> 00:19:50,960 existence of God that if God doesn't 318 00:19:50,960 --> 00:19:57,529 exist and you believe in him what have you 319 00:19:57,529 --> 00:20:02,299 lost? But if God does exist and you don't 320 00:20:02,299 --> 00:20:05,529 believe in him, then you've lost everything. 321 00:20:05,529 --> 00:20:10,820 That was Pascal's bet, okay, now I'm 322 00:20:10,820 --> 00:20:15,169 going to read one more prose poem. To play you 323 00:20:15,169 --> 00:20:17,750 need to get your MFA reading lists for 324 00:20:17,750 --> 00:20:19,760 because it makes a lot of references to 325 00:20:19,760 --> 00:20:29,690 the items on that. Okay, the Thought of What 326 00:20:29,690 --> 00:20:36,529 America Would be like If. Remember you 327 00:20:36,529 --> 00:20:39,769 don't know me. This isn't just one of 328 00:20:39,769 --> 00:20:42,590 those tricks we pull off in America, walk 329 00:20:42,590 --> 00:20:45,200 in the safeway 15 seconds apart in both 330 00:20:45,200 --> 00:20:48,710 buy 10 12 can packs of Dr. pepper for 331 00:20:48,710 --> 00:20:51,260 dollar ninety each, when the limit is 332 00:20:51,260 --> 00:20:53,870 10 per customer and then meet at the 333 00:20:53,870 --> 00:20:56,799 trunk of our car to stow away the goods. 334 00:20:56,799 --> 00:21:01,700 You don't know me, really. I have a 335 00:21:01,700 --> 00:21:05,090 thought of what America, I have a thought 336 00:21:05,090 --> 00:21:08,809 what America would be like, what America 337 00:21:08,809 --> 00:21:12,380 would be like if, the police record the 338 00:21:12,380 --> 00:21:15,730 world. Now, quick. 339 00:21:15,730 --> 00:21:19,830 Ruth is beautiful. Our beautiful Ruth. 340 00:21:19,830 --> 00:21:23,560 That is all you know and all you need to 341 00:21:23,560 --> 00:21:28,000 know. Or as Lily Tomlin put it, if 342 00:21:28,000 --> 00:21:31,060 truth is beauty how come no one has her 343 00:21:31,060 --> 00:21:33,970 hair done in the library. Well I'll be 344 00:21:33,970 --> 00:21:37,540 there if you need me, getting a shade and 345 00:21:37,540 --> 00:21:41,200 being fitted for a new suit and wig but 346 00:21:41,200 --> 00:21:43,000 don't tell the police that if you can help it. 347 00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:47,350 It'd be great in tact as you have been 348 00:21:47,350 --> 00:21:51,870 untaught. Ask them in for a cup of coffee. 349 00:21:51,870 --> 00:21:56,170 Call in the media to advise to see or 350 00:21:56,170 --> 00:22:00,430 not to see. Ask them that, will you? 351 00:22:00,430 --> 00:22:04,720 As all we see or seem but cream with in a 352 00:22:04,720 --> 00:22:08,410 cream, I'll use the precious seconds to 353 00:22:08,410 --> 00:22:12,340 escape by the name of Annabelle Lee, my 354 00:22:12,340 --> 00:22:16,530 beautiful Annabelle Lee. It's okay dear, 355 00:22:16,530 --> 00:22:18,580 you and I weren't right for each other 356 00:22:18,580 --> 00:22:19,850 anyway. 357 00:22:19,850 --> 00:22:23,690 She lives with no other plot and to love 358 00:22:23,690 --> 00:22:27,559 and be loved by me and what America 359 00:22:27,559 --> 00:22:31,730 would be like if so much depends upon 360 00:22:31,730 --> 00:22:35,929 the red SUV outfoxing the white cop 361 00:22:35,929 --> 00:22:40,780 cars, two roads divulged a yellow road 362 00:22:40,780 --> 00:22:43,669 where the evening is spread out against the 363 00:22:43,669 --> 00:22:47,990 sky I sing America next to of course God 364 00:22:47,990 --> 00:22:53,350 I do not find they were safe from me. 365 00:22:53,350 --> 00:22:56,710 Congress is the Emperor of pipe dreams 366 00:22:56,710 --> 00:23:00,470 Martha in the bar pointing is that this 367 00:23:00,470 --> 00:23:03,500 morning the very talk of a board was a 368 00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:08,419 Key West a kingdom by the sea at the 369 00:23:08,419 --> 00:23:10,280 Little League game I heard of fly buzz 370 00:23:10,280 --> 00:23:14,179 before the side was retired. If the classics 371 00:23:14,179 --> 00:23:18,530 had a wide circulation, Emily, we could 372 00:23:18,530 --> 00:23:24,190 not be to be. Ergo I am home and lumpy 373 00:23:24,190 --> 00:23:26,320 I just went out for a pack of Lucky 374 00:23:26,320 --> 00:23:30,610 Strikes to the Safeway. Oh well, it 375 00:23:30,610 --> 00:23:34,029 troubles my sleep. I shall be the 376 00:23:34,029 --> 00:23:37,840 telling this with a sigh, ages and ages 377 00:23:37,840 --> 00:23:41,440 hence, when the evening is spread out 378 00:23:41,440 --> 00:23:48,039 against the sky, I, too, sing America, what 379 00:23:48,039 --> 00:23:53,350 America would be like, if, nevermore 380 00:23:53,350 --> 00:23:56,919 Ruth is beautiful, our beautiful Ruth, that's 381 00:23:56,919 --> 00:24:01,559 all you know and all you need to know. 382 00:24:05,440 --> 00:24:10,330 Okay, I'm gonna read one poem that I 383 00:24:10,330 --> 00:24:13,809 sneaked in the book as a prose poem but 384 00:24:13,809 --> 00:24:16,100 probably can't be distinguished from a 385 00:24:16,100 --> 00:24:19,039 flash fiction and it's entitled Lennon and 386 00:24:19,039 --> 00:24:22,520 McCartney and it's basically going off 387 00:24:22,520 --> 00:24:25,760 on the idea of what would have happened 388 00:24:25,760 --> 00:24:33,140 had what happened not gotten away. Lennon 389 00:24:33,140 --> 00:24:38,000 and McCartney. 62 year old Paul McCartney, 390 00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:41,110 a bankrupt businessmen of Liverpool 391 00:24:41,110 --> 00:24:44,539 strolled down Penny Lane watching children 392 00:24:44,539 --> 00:24:49,130 laugh behind the back of a banker with a 393 00:24:49,130 --> 00:24:52,100 motor car. He worried how he was going to 394 00:24:52,100 --> 00:24:55,220 pay the rent due next week on his flat across the 395 00:24:55,220 --> 00:24:58,789 hall from Father McKenzie. He carried an 396 00:24:58,789 --> 00:25:00,590 old transistor radio that he had 397 00:25:00,590 --> 00:25:02,330 pilfered from the junk shop down by 398 00:25:02,330 --> 00:25:05,690 Strawberry Fields. It was all he had now 399 00:25:05,690 --> 00:25:09,110 on which to listen to the BBC, a new tune 400 00:25:09,110 --> 00:25:11,000 came on the waves and he quickly flipped 401 00:25:11,000 --> 00:25:15,140 off. He didn't want to listen to it. He 402 00:25:15,140 --> 00:25:16,909 remembered when he was a lad listening to 403 00:25:16,909 --> 00:25:20,510 the Everly Brothers and Buddy Holly but 404 00:25:20,510 --> 00:25:22,280 the music just didn't seem to go 405 00:25:22,280 --> 00:25:25,490 anywhere after a while and Mr. McCartney, 406 00:25:25,490 --> 00:25:27,980 he got on in business but now that had 407 00:25:27,980 --> 00:25:29,539 failed him, too. 408 00:25:29,539 --> 00:25:32,210 Besides Holly he had like that bloke Bob 409 00:25:32,210 --> 00:25:35,450 Dylan, but American folk music got old 410 00:25:35,450 --> 00:25:37,759 and Dylan by himself couldn't take it 411 00:25:37,759 --> 00:25:43,100 anywhere modern. If only Paul had listened to 412 00:25:43,100 --> 00:25:46,519 his mum who had wanted Paulie himself to 413 00:25:46,519 --> 00:25:50,389 take music lessons. He laughed maybe he 414 00:25:50,389 --> 00:25:51,830 could have merged Dylan's stuff 415 00:25:51,830 --> 00:25:54,139 together with the Everly's then the 416 00:25:54,139 --> 00:25:56,960 music would have gone somewhere, not that 417 00:25:56,960 --> 00:25:59,539 tinny penny here on the BBC these 418 00:25:59,539 --> 00:26:02,840 days. But Paul knew that you could drive 419 00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:05,599 yourself crazy wondering about what 420 00:26:05,599 --> 00:26:10,009 could have been. He crossed paths that day with 421 00:26:10,009 --> 00:26:14,840 one John Lennon, aged 64, an unkept 422 00:26:14,840 --> 00:26:18,349 street painter losing his hair with 423 00:26:18,349 --> 00:26:20,899 birthday greetings and a bottle wine in his 424 00:26:20,899 --> 00:26:22,780 pocket. 425 00:26:22,780 --> 00:26:26,830 20 quid for a portrait, sir? Paul McCartney 426 00:26:26,830 --> 00:26:31,190 wasn't used to be called sir 427 00:26:31,190 --> 00:26:34,130 and he thought about it but he didn't 428 00:26:34,130 --> 00:26:37,000 have the 20 quid. 429 00:26:37,340 --> 00:26:40,880 Mr. Lennon, already was walking down 430 00:26:40,880 --> 00:26:44,120 Abbey Road whistling, he was on his way 431 00:26:44,120 --> 00:26:48,140 home. It was October. It was the year 432 00:26:48,140 --> 00:26:51,800 2004 and John Lennon was 433 00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:55,240 simply happy to be alive. 434 00:27:00,909 --> 00:27:04,899 I'm going to read a few poems 435 00:27:04,899 --> 00:27:07,859 now that are not prose poems are more 436 00:27:07,859 --> 00:27:12,399 linear poems. This first one's titled 437 00:27:12,399 --> 00:27:17,489 Delivering to the Client. All afternoon 438 00:27:17,489 --> 00:27:20,970 within the cubicles it has been raining 439 00:27:20,970 --> 00:27:24,909 requirements. Code meanders down screens, 440 00:27:24,909 --> 00:27:30,190 a river depositing content to reservoirs 441 00:27:30,190 --> 00:27:34,349 and large cities. The river is muddy. 442 00:27:34,349 --> 00:27:37,619 Testers look for unintended consequences, 443 00:27:37,619 --> 00:27:42,909 silt, small towns from nowhere sapping 444 00:27:42,909 --> 00:27:46,330 resources on the banks. Driftwood and 445 00:27:46,330 --> 00:27:50,799 beavers filling dams. Their will is to 446 00:27:50,799 --> 00:27:53,799 break everything. That they could miss 447 00:27:53,799 --> 00:27:56,830 the isolated farmstead, where man in the 448 00:27:56,830 --> 00:28:01,659 way works on the tractor. Inside him is a 449 00:28:01,659 --> 00:28:05,440 boy who insists that tomorrow when 450 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:07,100 it stops raining he will 451 00:28:07,100 --> 00:28:09,789 go fishing. 452 00:28:13,470 --> 00:28:15,929 Ok, the next poem is Photographs of 453 00:28:15,929 --> 00:28:19,320 Door County. Door County is a resort area 454 00:28:19,320 --> 00:28:23,000 in northern Wisconsin, along Lake 455 00:28:23,000 --> 00:28:26,640 Michigan. This poem again is not 456 00:28:26,640 --> 00:28:29,190 autobiographical. Photographs of Door 457 00:28:29,190 --> 00:28:36,020 County. At last Joni and I meet James. 458 00:28:36,020 --> 00:28:39,179 Fumbling, he shows his photographs of 459 00:28:39,179 --> 00:28:44,340 Door County. In the first, Lake Michigan 460 00:28:44,340 --> 00:28:47,940 is black as glass but with his single 461 00:28:47,940 --> 00:28:52,559 sail somehow in the center. The only 462 00:28:52,559 --> 00:28:55,799 sound I hear is the awkward Canada geese. 463 00:28:55,799 --> 00:29:01,080 In the next there, was a family in the 464 00:29:01,080 --> 00:29:04,770 distance, he did not know yet, having been 465 00:29:04,770 --> 00:29:09,900 there only one day. A girl and a boy and 466 00:29:09,900 --> 00:29:13,020 fishing poles, it seems to me the father 467 00:29:13,020 --> 00:29:15,770 struggles to get the boat into the water 468 00:29:15,770 --> 00:29:21,120 while the wife loads the final needs. My 469 00:29:21,120 --> 00:29:24,590 daughter acts casual, 470 00:29:25,789 --> 00:29:30,200 but her eyes wink that this may be it. 471 00:29:30,200 --> 00:29:34,259 Begs me to study his next carefully, his 472 00:29:34,259 --> 00:29:38,669 next photograph even more carefully, not 473 00:29:38,669 --> 00:29:43,489 knowing James sits in her mother's chair, she 474 00:29:43,489 --> 00:29:48,109 she has been gone now a full season. 475 00:29:48,109 --> 00:29:51,570 Joni's cream and sugar voice sails into 476 00:29:51,570 --> 00:29:55,639 the room with coffee though there is no tide. 477 00:29:55,639 --> 00:29:59,269 This afternoon there's little wind 478 00:29:59,269 --> 00:30:04,169 although the waves still come in. They go 479 00:30:04,169 --> 00:30:08,119 out and they come in. 480 00:30:22,830 --> 00:30:27,049 Okay, I'll read one more of these. 481 00:30:29,940 --> 00:30:35,159 Somewhere Wants a House. We could have 482 00:30:35,159 --> 00:30:38,659 lived anywhere, strung light and power 483 00:30:38,659 --> 00:30:43,759 around a tree. You could have dried your hair. 484 00:30:43,759 --> 00:30:47,850 We made money in the wind, caught for a 485 00:30:47,850 --> 00:30:53,279 minute on limbs and blow away. Yes, dear. 486 00:30:53,279 --> 00:30:57,679 We stand. Arguing which debt could go 487 00:30:57,679 --> 00:31:03,330 first or stay years. Proposed bets until 488 00:31:03,330 --> 00:31:07,320 our pockets were bare. Invited birds to 489 00:31:07,320 --> 00:31:11,000 spend the night, to nestle in your blouse, 490 00:31:11,000 --> 00:31:15,090 whipped into rags by a clothesline, while 491 00:31:15,090 --> 00:31:21,649 we slept, but no, we lived in this house. 492 00:31:25,630 --> 00:31:28,090 Okay, my book came out in January so most of 493 00:31:28,090 --> 00:31:29,380 these poems I've written 494 00:31:29,380 --> 00:31:30,700 probably least two or three years ago 495 00:31:30,700 --> 00:31:33,130 many many some even much more than that 496 00:31:33,130 --> 00:31:34,750 so I'd like to give an idea, a bit of an idea 497 00:31:34,750 --> 00:31:36,730 what I've been writing since the book 498 00:31:36,730 --> 00:31:39,700 came out, the first one here we get on 499 00:31:39,700 --> 00:31:42,250 some of the advice get in Richard Hugo's 500 00:31:42,250 --> 00:31:46,390 Triggering Town. Also on your MFA reading 501 00:31:46,390 --> 00:31:48,810 list. Okay, this poem is entitled 502 00:31:48,810 --> 00:31:52,630 Bankruptcy in Ellettsville for Richard 503 00:31:52,630 --> 00:31:57,870 Hugo. The bank's vault loaded with 504 00:31:57,870 --> 00:32:02,410 once-friendly girls and cash dropped off 505 00:32:02,410 --> 00:32:06,600 the map last night. Men in black suits 506 00:32:06,600 --> 00:32:10,900 were seen on the outskirts, struggling 507 00:32:10,900 --> 00:32:15,730 without tomorrows, snuggling without tomorrows, sorry. 508 00:32:15,730 --> 00:32:21,070 Hymnals fled of state passing 509 00:32:21,070 --> 00:32:26,170 yan and virtuous fields of sweet air. We 510 00:32:26,170 --> 00:32:29,230 went home for our axes, broke open the 511 00:32:29,230 --> 00:32:31,770 safe to claim what was rightfully ours 512 00:32:31,770 --> 00:32:36,160 but by time we got there the metal hummed 513 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:40,390 the trains sad whistle, the corn grew 514 00:32:40,390 --> 00:32:43,680 back taller than ever in its sweet time, 515 00:32:43,680 --> 00:32:47,320 produced sons and daughters though our 516 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:50,140 wives that night had run off with any 517 00:32:50,140 --> 00:32:54,750 moon or star that would have them. 518 00:32:56,740 --> 00:32:58,990 Pebbles 519 00:32:58,990 --> 00:33:02,110 In the middle of love there was a large 520 00:33:02,110 --> 00:33:05,980 stone. Soon there were little pebbles all 521 00:33:05,980 --> 00:33:10,540 over. What was once a green valley was 522 00:33:10,540 --> 00:33:13,870 becoming a rocky hillside. There was one 523 00:33:13,870 --> 00:33:17,100 thing to do, but we would not hear of it. 524 00:33:17,100 --> 00:33:19,809 Rather we bought wine buckets at great 525 00:33:19,809 --> 00:33:22,840 cost gathered the small pebbles and 526 00:33:22,840 --> 00:33:25,690 collected them. One small bucket at a 527 00:33:25,690 --> 00:33:29,260 time. We pounded the large stone with 528 00:33:29,260 --> 00:33:33,429 hammers made more pebbles of which we 529 00:33:33,429 --> 00:33:37,809 were always proud and carried them away to 530 00:33:37,809 --> 00:33:40,740 a place by the church and by the river, 531 00:33:40,740 --> 00:33:44,050 through it all the stone remained 532 00:33:44,050 --> 00:33:48,490 large. By the time the sun was down and 533 00:33:48,490 --> 00:33:51,510 the day was done and the moon was up 534 00:33:51,510 --> 00:33:54,550 there were more pebbles than ever 535 00:33:54,550 --> 00:33:57,820 before, but we were tired then and 536 00:33:57,820 --> 00:34:00,928 laid down. 537 00:34:06,650 --> 00:34:10,949 Let me read you a couple prose poems and 538 00:34:10,949 --> 00:34:12,780 if we have enough time I'll read you one more. 539 00:34:12,780 --> 00:34:16,290 Closing Plants Still 540 00:34:16,290 --> 00:34:21,168 Manufacturing Dwight Eisenhower. They say 541 00:34:21,168 --> 00:34:23,940 America is no longer the manufacturing 542 00:34:23,940 --> 00:34:28,649 superpower it once was. Bottom line, Harry 543 00:34:28,649 --> 00:34:30,629 and Ike are not creating the new jobs 544 00:34:30,629 --> 00:34:35,280 they promised America. Physicists say 545 00:34:35,280 --> 00:34:40,199 Harry S. Truman mattered. He was a solid 546 00:34:40,199 --> 00:34:43,739 at room temperature, a concrete brick 547 00:34:43,739 --> 00:34:46,440 with drilled and engineered holes used to 548 00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:49,290 build skyscrapers. As was Dwight David 549 00:34:49,290 --> 00:34:52,409 Eisenhower. They had recognizable mass 550 00:34:52,409 --> 00:34:57,090 and occupied clearly defined space. They 551 00:34:57,090 --> 00:34:59,550 travel at a given and predictable rate 552 00:34:59,550 --> 00:35:02,460 of speed. You could recognize photographs 553 00:35:02,460 --> 00:35:03,750 of them and not mistake them for 554 00:35:03,750 --> 00:35:07,290 Brigitte Bardot or Sophia Loren. It is the 555 00:35:07,290 --> 00:35:10,140 days before charisma, but they had 556 00:35:10,140 --> 00:35:14,310 presence. Now, Harry Truman and Dwight 557 00:35:14,310 --> 00:35:18,180 Eisenhower are liquids. The volume remains 558 00:35:18,180 --> 00:35:20,760 fixed but you're not sure where they 559 00:35:20,760 --> 00:35:22,860 stand on the current war or on health care 560 00:35:22,860 --> 00:35:26,520 or the national debt. The photos are 561 00:35:26,520 --> 00:35:29,460 digital. Sometimes they look like Paris 562 00:35:29,460 --> 00:35:31,590 Hilton and sometimes they look like 563 00:35:31,590 --> 00:35:35,550 Miley Cyrus. Their shape is the shape in 564 00:35:35,550 --> 00:35:37,759 which they are contained. 565 00:35:37,759 --> 00:35:41,339 Their particles are free to move about the 566 00:35:41,339 --> 00:35:44,700 cabin. They say Harry Truman and Dwight 567 00:35:44,700 --> 00:35:46,559 Eisenhower soon will be nothing but 568 00:35:46,559 --> 00:35:49,950 vapors of gas. They are no longer at room 569 00:35:49,950 --> 00:35:54,059 temperature. The volume of a gas is 570 00:35:54,059 --> 00:35:57,000 negotiable. It does not attach images of 571 00:35:57,000 --> 00:36:00,089 itself to expand. It takes up space so 572 00:36:00,089 --> 00:36:02,069 the particles are uniformly distributed 573 00:36:02,069 --> 00:36:05,369 in air. You can friend Harry and Ike on 574 00:36:05,369 --> 00:36:08,369 Facebook but the websites 575 00:36:08,369 --> 00:36:10,319 inflict your hard drive with 576 00:36:10,319 --> 00:36:14,670 Trojans. You may mistake them for ladies, 577 00:36:14,670 --> 00:36:17,549 but they're not ladies and with no names you can 578 00:36:17,549 --> 00:36:21,059 call them in public. In the future, young 579 00:36:21,059 --> 00:36:23,250 people will have to find jobs in 580 00:36:23,250 --> 00:36:26,009 something other than Harry S. Truman and 581 00:36:26,009 --> 00:36:28,640 Dwight David Eisenhower. 582 00:36:30,900 --> 00:36:33,750 And this poem is entitled Hacking Rilke's 583 00:36:33,750 --> 00:36:38,059 Phone. This needs to be the last one. 584 00:36:38,359 --> 00:36:42,900 Hacking Rilke's Phone and it uses 585 00:36:42,900 --> 00:36:46,680 some quotes from with Rilke's novel 586 00:36:46,680 --> 00:36:50,670 The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge. Rilke 587 00:36:50,670 --> 00:36:53,730 won't play ball with us they said but we 588 00:36:53,730 --> 00:36:56,640 got the scoop. He had no clue what our 589 00:36:56,640 --> 00:37:00,210 thugs are now capable of. He thought it a 590 00:37:00,210 --> 00:37:02,309 scandal that his patronm Werner Reinhart 591 00:37:02,309 --> 00:37:05,180 would put him up in a drafty castle, 592 00:37:05,180 --> 00:37:08,760 but now we can tell you why he did. It 593 00:37:08,760 --> 00:37:12,450 was just modern journalism. We got this 594 00:37:12,450 --> 00:37:14,579 on tape from the man professing silence 595 00:37:14,579 --> 00:37:19,220 of the world even the so-called solitude. 596 00:37:19,220 --> 00:37:22,910 One must see many cities, men, and things. 597 00:37:22,910 --> 00:37:25,200 One must be able to think back to the 598 00:37:25,200 --> 00:37:26,730 days of childhood that are still 599 00:37:26,730 --> 00:37:29,549 unexplained. The parents hadn't wanted to 600 00:37:29,549 --> 00:37:31,859 hurt when they brought joy into not 601 00:37:31,859 --> 00:37:37,470 grasp it. Although admittedly we ache to 602 00:37:37,470 --> 00:37:39,630 get them on primetime cable news for the 603 00:37:39,630 --> 00:37:43,289 ratings, we cannot imagine or abide his 604 00:37:43,289 --> 00:37:46,099 hypocrisy or treason. 605 00:37:46,099 --> 00:37:48,589 He got away in the end with nothing from 606 00:37:48,589 --> 00:37:51,670 us even though we continued to protest 607 00:37:51,670 --> 00:37:55,249 and it's not yet enough. One must have 608 00:37:55,249 --> 00:37:57,950 memories of many nights of love, none like 609 00:37:57,950 --> 00:38:00,529 the others. One must have been beside 610 00:38:00,529 --> 00:38:02,720 the dime, set beside the dead in the room with 611 00:38:02,720 --> 00:38:06,440 the open window and the fitful noise, not 612 00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:08,029 to think can happen that in the most 613 00:38:08,029 --> 00:38:13,569 rare hour the first word goes forth. Thus 614 00:38:13,569 --> 00:38:18,369 ashamed, nah, we are proud of ourselves. 615 00:38:18,369 --> 00:38:21,289 Elbowed out of the news cycle, we thought 616 00:38:21,289 --> 00:38:22,940 the world would lose interest in this 617 00:38:22,940 --> 00:38:26,420 minor bohemian poet. We had bugged his 618 00:38:26,420 --> 00:38:30,529 room. We had bugged his roses with thorns for 619 00:38:30,529 --> 00:38:34,729 the sake of a single story. I think that's 620 00:38:34,729 --> 00:38:38,499 good. Thank you very much. 621 00:38:52,800 --> 00:38:54,860 Thank you.