(Note: ^ = increased emphasis; numbers at left = time code)
0.854660 red shift
03.375367 here I am at 8:08pm
05.820344 indefinable ample rhythmic frame
08.708879 the air is biting
10.374925 February
11.673143 fierce arabesques
13.209368 on the way to tree
14.713137 in winter streetscape
16.433276 I drink some American poison liquid air
19.484088 which bubbles
20.576755 & smoke
21.225864 to have character
22.599811 & to lean in
24.255039 the streets look for Allen
26.234821 Frank
26.840656 or me
28.019871 Allen is a movie
29.718373 Frank disappearing in the air
32.195805 it's heavy with that lightness
34.337865 heavy on me
35.614446 I ^heave through it
37.356222 them
38.189245 as the Calvados is being sipped on Long Island now
42.094717 20 years almost ago
44.442328 & a man smoking
45.989371 is looking
46.941398 at the smilingly attentive woman
49.570289 and telling
51.755623 who would've thought
53.129570 that I'd be here
54.709069 nothing wrapped up
56.580666 nothing buried
57.943795 everything
58.895822 love
59.815393 children
61.124429 hundreds of them
63.169122 money
64.121149 marriage, ethics
65.711466 a politics of grace
67.388331 up in the air
68.902918 swirling
70.276866 burning even or still
72.354014 now more than ever before
75.231731 not that
76.129665 practically a boy
77.828167 serious in cordoroy car coat
80.370510 eyes penetrating the winter twilight
83.194134 at 6th & Bowery in 1961
86.374768 not that pretty girl
87.997541 19
89.046934 who is going to have to go
91.286360 careening into middle age so
93.839522 to burn
94.856459 & to burn more fiercely
96.814604 than even she could imagine
98.761931 so to go
100.460433 not that painter
102.267120 who from very first meeting
104.419998 I would ^never & never will leave alone
107.362625 until we both vanish
108.758210 into the thin air we signed up for
111.170731 & so demanded to breathe
113.453431 & who will never leave me
115.454851 not for sex
116.677339 nor politics
118.040468 nor even for stupid permanent estrangement
121.102099 which is only our human lot
122.952059 & means nothing
124.628924 no, not him
126.468066 There's a song
xx.xxxxxxx California Dreaming
129.691974 but no I won't do that
132.396595 I am 43
134.192463 when will I die
136.377797 I will never die
138.368398 I will live to be one hundred and ten
140.694372 and I will ^never go away
142.814794 & you will ^never escape from me
144.989309 who am always & only a ghost
147.250372 despite this frame
148.775778 spirit who lives only to nag
151.328940 I'm only ^pronouns
153.124809 & I am
153.957832 ^all of them
155.082954 & ^I didn't ask for this
156.976189 ^you did
158.068855 I came into your life to ^change it
160.860024 & it ^did so
161.974328 & now ^nothing will ever change ^that
164.895318 & that's that
166.821008 alone & crowded
168.973886 unhappy fate
170.499292 nevertheless
171.775873 I slip softly into the air
174.404765 the world's furious song
176.622554 flows through my costume
