together or at least both at the same time people are always talking about the importance of poets finding her own voice you can see that in the work with her today but i always gets higher shifty eyes at that point i seem to spend a lot of time trying to find other people's voices on this poem is called el which is the name of the times in bogota and i suppose one of the things i wanted to do was try to capture the rhythm of spanish as i'd heard it in bogota even though the poem was in english el presidente hey turns out the light at international airport one representing private interests takes a machete from his attache to directly to the reader and i thought that that's a good idea for me you know sort of see what my feelings for the reader were i didn't even realize till i was preparing this that i after the poem in my own voice and then i dear reader wrestling backward through these pages seeking an arresting image a memorable line i feel you are covering outside my do more com an open palm hello you're standing under it and i myself perhaps some kind of reader for you the lazy boy just lea back pressed the lever there can i bring you something pepsico on alone and you know why i forgot you've been to college my wonder bread isn't good enough for you oh my god wherever you purchased this book take it back shut it at once and keep it shut don't make me tell you what i see  remember that so this is called a ventriloquist dummy coral's with his maker and i was thinking of those two particularly and they're having an argument i think you can tell who's speaking there a word in the very end of the poem that i just think it's a simple simple words but it be hard to get when you're just hearing it might chart out of context but you know one of those graphs by chart right and just requests for autographs quite frankly i think i have a right to groan when my turn as my ingenious eyeball seemed to float that's only when you're set up right you sometimes not very often but the voice becomes very specific a couple of years ago a friend of mine suggested that i look and listen to the martin luther king's  vietnam war vietnam protest speech which he delivered i think a year to the day before he was assassinated and as i was looking at it it seemed to have a lot more content than most political speeches and it was also very rhythmic so i sort of started thinking what would happen if you just try clients from this and try to make a poem out of  them which i've done some of them are direct quotes some are paraphrases as i was doing this i was looking for other quotations and i went to that website that martin luther king's family maintains in atlanta and i found myself in the middle of the transcript of a civil trial where caret the king and the family had accused the united states government of murdering martin luther king and down whatever you think of that they did when the case that witnesses and evidence and everything whatever one might think of that i thought it was strange that i had never heard of it that i didn't know probably this is berkeley you know but i was in seattle and i didn't know the correct thing had gone to her death believing that i am so that on to the title tomorrow is today and that's a quote from him the time has come when silence is betrayal said martin luther king he paid his dues and was his martyrdom to no avail the annual martin luther king day sale this ghouls we name for him the big to do there comes a time when honor is betrayal whoever wins it is the rich prevail in vietnam silence on the new news is there martyrdom to no avail there comes a time when silence is betrayal and so i wrote a poem about my experience at least when i'm listening to a fellow now i don't know a recognize it or not but it is called putting two and two together like a horse that leaves the gate before the bell while the poet reads your thoughts respond to head as soon as you suspect a villain now that to reframe lines though their craft you could well have already formed that couplet in your head like a horse that leaves the gate before the battle or that t d s alero rebel was where afraid he becomes a mountain tread as soon as you suspected that one now like a tactfully unstated leaving you to guess at your full heart from all you did and didn't say for ages as in some bass congressional record yourself and that last is lost among is that rumpled look alike who wears a blouse like yours the arm gets dark with sweat your gray diaries still make you cringe say from what in you find on through the echo of your own voice in your ears and wants to ask which one most sickens you the voice that you i'm going to finish you've been sitting on that as chairs for quite a while that someone says i was getting this together and i wanted to have some bones my own voice i was glad i had to find they were some of the the human condition is dark and knocked are evil this is to love a golden retriever beautiful muse here you are again memorable you are desirable beyond measure you make me want to lie on my back clutching the grass clutching and needing the gnarly roots the na rough carpet or earth giving my body completely to the sun oh let your rough time like mine open i feel your warm no nothing  i can't thank you enough for all coming it's been a wonderful event i mean i've had other reasons for this and spectacular so thank you all the wonderful poets are you not you have to leave this this event is not over you're welcome to mix and mingle and hang out and have some work we have berkeley i believe the speech was called america's great moral dilemma and he it was recorded by k p affair actually and i think i can take the photograph but i produce this poster it's amazing rare historic photo because it's actually he was assassinated april fourth one sixty eight that pretty much says that he was talking about the and yet nominee he was saying that a lot of african american males are coming home in boxes and i have a feeling this was the reason he was assassinated that he turned against the war he was an activist he was a civil rights leader and they often i don't know if it's johnson i don't know if it's a mafia i don't know who it was but they didn't want to round he was he was against the war in vietnam and he was saved if anybody b i think it's pacifica radio thank you very much anybody else want to say something anyway it's not over till it's over and so i have a good time enjoy enjoy your day and it was a wonderful it was a sunny day and it was warmer it wasn't exactly very warm but it was warmer than yesterday so thanks again for coming in once again welcome to our house gallery