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? I know my parents loved me ?

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{\an8}? Stand behind me
Come what may ?

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{\an8}? I know now that I'm ready, yeah ?

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? For I finally heard them say ?

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? It's a different world ?

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{\an8}? Than where you come from ?

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{\an8}? Yes, it is now, yeah ?

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{\an8}? Here's our chance to make it ?

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{\an8}? And if we focus on our goal ?

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{\an8}? You can dish it
We can take it ?

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{\an8}? Hey, just remember
That you've been told ?

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{\an8}? It's a different world ?

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{\an8}? It's a different world ?

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{\an8}? It's a different world ?

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{\an8}? It's a different world ?

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{\an8}? Yeah, than where you come from ?

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{\an8}? Than where you come from ?

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{\an8}A fine example of poetic language

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{\an8}can be found in James Joyce's Ulysses.

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{\an8}The last chapter, after Molly describes
the opposed marriage proposal.

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{\an8}So simple, yet so beautiful.

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"Then I asked him with my eyes, yes�

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"to say yes, my mountain flower,

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"and first I put my arms around him, yes,

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"and drew him down to me,
so he could feel my breasts

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"all perfume, yes�"

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"�and his heart was going like mad

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"and yes, I said yes, I will, yes."

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Yes!

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Yes!

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They act like they're at a Pistons game.

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I tell ya.

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- Excuse me?
- Yes, Dwayne?

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I think Mr. Joyce gets carried away
with all this "yes, I said yes,

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"she said yes, we all said yes."

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We get the point.

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Also, the last chapter was all
one sentence. Where is the punctuation?

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It's called creative license.

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Where I went to school,
it's called a "D" in grammar.

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Dwayne, tell me something.
Do you like Michael Jordan?

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- Who doesn't?
- Piston fans.

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That's because my man "L"
lives in the clouds.

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Now, when Jordan leaps,
he's got time to wave to the fans

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call his wife, flip some pancakes,
do a 360, and then

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slam the ball into the hoop.

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But the point of the game
is to get the ball into the basket.

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What does it matter that
he can stay in the air so long?

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That's the difference between
another two points and art.

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Exactly. James Joyce, Michael Jordan-
creative license.

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- Whitley.
- Mr. Mann�

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No, Paul. I told you all to call me Paul.

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My favorite apostle� Paul.

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I feel the last passage
represents a personification of love,

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the eternal affirmation of passion,

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a world without commas,
colons and semi-colons

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where love is just one long refrain.

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Yes, yes, yes!

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Please, please, please!

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Excuse me, Paul.

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I'm only in this class is because
they won't let me graduate without it.

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I'm a mathematician, a man of science.
Poetry is useless in my life.

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Dwayne, I disagree.

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Poetry is far from useless.

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In South Africa, I was forbidden
to read James Joyce, James Baldwin,

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Langston Hughes, Robert Louis Stevenson,
even our own national poets

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because their ideas might have
stimulated thought and opened my mind.

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You were forbidden
to read Langston Hughes?

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In a repressive society,

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someone who makes people think
can be very dangerous.

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Fortunately, you all live
in a free society

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but freedom has its price.

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Your assignment for Monday
is to write a poem.

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It's bad enough we got to read them
but now write them, too?

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Don't look so worried, Dwayne.
It doesn't have to be Shakespeare.

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Your poems can be any length, any style.

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The point is be creative.

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Can I have someone else write it?

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Do you want to take this course
a fourth time?

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No, thank you. I'll pass.

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I want a messy Melvin burger with cheese
and enough onions to make mother cry.

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- Oh!
- Make that two and a soda.

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- Wait, hold the onions on mine.
- I never did like you.

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- What are we looking at?
- Nothing.

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Nothing?

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- I call Freddie Brooks something.
- She might be.

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Ernest, you've seen her 100 times.
When did this happen?

87
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Somewhere around 56
but I wasn't sure until 97.

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Whoo, the "E" man wants some play.

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Two messy Melvins, one without onions.

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All right, I'll take the onions.

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Every time I try to talk to her,
moldy locks gets there before me.

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He's the editor of The Hillman Chronicle.
He's hairy and heavy.

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I don't like this, man, at all.

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What do they have in common?
So they're both artistes.

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So neither one of them combs their hair.

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So they both wear clothes
the Salvation Army threw out.

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You're in trouble, cous'.

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Okay, you've got your plastic container,
your plastic fork

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plastic ketchup packet,
probably got plastic ketchup.

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It's all non-biodegradable. It's all from
one messy Melvin burger to go.

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It's incredible.

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You know, you could call
your collage Planet To Go.

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Using ecology to get over? That is weak!

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Livingston, to me, this represents
the communion between art and� garbage.

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- You understand my art.
- I do.

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- And you really understand me.
- I do?

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And now I want to understand you better.

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Well, there's not that much to understand.

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I'm a redhead and a vegetarian.

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Listen. How would you like to go
to the Third World festival tonight?

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Lots of great vegetarian dishes,
great music.

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I'd love to.

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- Okay. So I'll see you at 7:00?
- 7:00.

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�and in 1958, with only a $200 investment

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my daddy founded the Johnson-
automotive works.

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- Hello, Freddie.
- Hi, Ernest. That's a great sweater.

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- I got it from the Salvation Army.
- Mmm.

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Something smells good over here.
And I know it's not food.

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I don't wear perfume.

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Maybe it's my soap.
It's made with honey and bee pollen.

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Ernest.

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Are you free Saturday night?

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I've got tickets to the game.

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We'll grab a bite to eat at a restaurant
without a drive-through window.

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Sounds terrific.

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Meet you at lobby at 7:00.

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- And use that soap.
- Wear that sweater.

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- Bye.
- Bye.

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Man, somebody as ugly as you
should never look unhappy.

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You see that Paul over there?

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He throws in a couple of
"thou that's here", "thou this there",

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and a few "ruby lips"

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and these babes are foaming at the mouth.

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There's lots to be said about poetry.

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I have caught many a fine woman
with a well-placed verse.

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I cannot see you with your woman
spouting sonnets?

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No, sonnets only get you to second base.

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If you want a home run, you need an ode.

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- Ode?
- That's how I messed Jaleesa's mind.

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Let me teach you one of my favorites.
"Ode to Jaleesa."

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J is for the joy you bring me
as you pass me by.

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A is for the association I have
with your left and right thigh.

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L is for your luscious lips
as you kiss me in the night.

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E is for the emptiness I feel
when things ain't going right.

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I already told you about that other "E."

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S is for the sexy way
you laugh at all my jokes.

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A is for the author, thrilling, chilling

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always willing, sho' 'nuff poet,
Walter Oakes.

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Well, I think I now know why
Jaleesa left you standing at the altar.

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I see you had a good time
with Livingston last night.

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Yes, I did. I sure did. Lord knows I did.

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Singing in the morning?
You made music last night.

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Livingston and I won the limbo contest.

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How low did you go?

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It was the most exciting night of my life.

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Finally, the girl has
got some tea to pour.

157
00:09:00,700 --> 00:09:02,133
Sounds like a potful.

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After the festival we went
to Dina's Doughnuts and we sat�

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And we sat�

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00:09:08,533 --> 00:09:10,466
and we sat�

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till the sun came up
over that big, rotating doughnut.

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I'd finish his sentences,
and he'd finish mine.

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When we were silent, a lot was being said.

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Did you get some sweet lip or not?

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Kim, there are times when not touching
is just as stimulating as touching.

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- No sweet lips?
- And this was not one of those times!

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- There is sugar in this tea.
- Refined sugar.

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- Speaking of fine, Ernest called.
- Who?

169
00:09:42,566 --> 00:09:45,033
Ernest. I have a date with him tonight.

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I can see you with Livingston, but Ernest?

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He belongs with someone more traditional,
more goal-oriented.

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Someone like� me.

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- Touch him and you'll draw back a stub.
- It's a nub.

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My God. I can't believe I just said that.

175
00:10:03,233 --> 00:10:06,033
I want both of them. What does that mean?

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00:10:06,100 --> 00:10:08,500
It means the drought is over.

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00:10:08,566 --> 00:10:13,133
Oh, no, it means
I'm one of those insatiable women.

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00:10:13,200 --> 00:10:15,433
I'm a smooth operator.

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I'm a cold-hearted snake.

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00:10:19,133 --> 00:10:22,433
Yeah. Feels good, doesn't it?

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00:10:22,500 --> 00:10:26,500
Guys, please hear me. I had a very intense
evening with Livingston.

182
00:10:26,566 --> 00:10:29,633
How can I think of having
the same thing with Ernest?

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00:10:29,700 --> 00:10:32,033
Freddie, this is the '90s.

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00:10:32,100 --> 00:10:34,900
In a few years, nuns will be dating.

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00:10:34,966 --> 00:10:37,833
- Is that a good thing?
- It is if you're a priest.

186
00:10:42,466 --> 00:10:44,566
Come on, it's going to be going on.

187
00:10:44,633 --> 00:10:47,933
Ron, how many languages do I use
to tell you I have work?

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00:10:48,000 --> 00:10:49,733
It's a mud-wrestling matinee.

189
00:10:49,800 --> 00:10:53,000
Thick-thigh Thelma and nasty Natasha
in a grudge match.

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00:10:53,066 --> 00:10:55,800
- That mud pool will be busy today.
- Without me.

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00:10:55,866 --> 00:11:00,233
- I told you I have to write this poem.
- What's your dilemma? I finished mine.

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00:11:00,300 --> 00:11:03,133
- You did?
- I had to push myself on this one.

193
00:11:03,200 --> 00:11:05,933
I dug deep into my soul.

194
00:11:06,000 --> 00:11:09,233
You couldn't dig that deep.
You're only 5'4".

195
00:11:09,300 --> 00:11:13,000
- I'm 5'6". Do you want to hear the poem?
- Okay, enlighten me, please.

196
00:11:14,500 --> 00:11:18,266
In the middle of the night,
the sun sleeps.

197
00:11:18,333 --> 00:11:21,333
- It's a nice title.
- That's the poem, man.

198
00:11:21,400 --> 00:11:25,800
You heard what Paul said, any form,
any length. Just put something down.

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00:11:25,866 --> 00:11:28,600
What will come down
is my grade point average.

200
00:11:28,666 --> 00:11:32,200
If thick-thigh Thelma stays in town,
I don't want to graduate.

201
00:11:34,066 --> 00:11:35,733
You may not graduate anyway.

202
00:11:41,133 --> 00:11:44,743
Is my assignment giving you trouble
or do you cut your nails that short?

203
00:11:44,766 --> 00:11:47,633
By Monday, you can call me Captain Hook.

204
00:11:49,233 --> 00:11:51,866
I ran into Colonel Taylor.

205
00:11:51,933 --> 00:11:54,733
He told me you are
his prized math student.

206
00:11:54,800 --> 00:11:57,570
I feel cheated not seeing that performance
in my class.

207
00:11:57,633 --> 00:11:59,966
He teaches something that I like.

208
00:12:00,100 --> 00:12:02,900
If you only want to study subjects
that you like,

209
00:12:02,966 --> 00:12:04,833
you should go to vocational school.

210
00:12:04,900 --> 00:12:07,200
You ask this chair
how long I've been here.

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00:12:07,266 --> 00:12:11,166
The only thing I've written is the date
and that's changed since I sat down.

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00:12:13,766 --> 00:12:15,900
Writer's block. That's a good sign.

213
00:12:16,633 --> 00:12:18,900
I'm off to the mud-wrestling matinee.

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00:12:18,966 --> 00:12:20,500
Wait, I beg your pardon?

215
00:12:20,566 --> 00:12:23,033
I never miss thick-thigh Thelma.

216
00:12:23,100 --> 00:12:24,833
She's truly poetry in motion.

217
00:12:25,866 --> 00:12:26,916
Good luck.

218
00:12:28,900 --> 00:12:29,950
"Good luck"?

219
00:12:36,833 --> 00:12:38,433
Young man.

220
00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,366
- That is not a pillow.
- Mmm.

221
00:12:42,000 --> 00:12:45,766
Not only is it too hard to read,
it's too hard to sleep on.

222
00:12:45,833 --> 00:12:49,900
I thought Shakespeare might inspire me
but the old boy knocked me out.

223
00:12:49,966 --> 00:12:52,333
How could this "boy"?

224
00:12:52,400 --> 00:12:55,533
Shakespeare's filled
with action, adventure, romance.

225
00:12:55,600 --> 00:12:57,300
Where did you come from?

226
00:12:57,366 --> 00:12:59,766
I hail from Stratford-upon-Avon.

227
00:12:59,833 --> 00:13:02,833
You look like
the Stratford-upon-Avon lady.

228
00:13:03,766 --> 00:13:06,733
First you mock these words.
Now you mock my attire.

229
00:13:06,800 --> 00:13:09,233
And who might you be, sir?

230
00:13:10,366 --> 00:13:15,233
William Shakespeare,
the author of your pillow.

231
00:13:15,833 --> 00:13:18,300
You've drooled on Hamlet.

232
00:13:23,733 --> 00:13:26,900
Wait. You can't be William Shakespeare.
You're dead.

233
00:13:26,966 --> 00:13:29,033
But my words live on.

234
00:13:29,100 --> 00:13:30,966
I have been roused from my sleep.

235
00:13:31,033 --> 00:13:34,566
Sleep that knits
the raveled sleeve of care

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00:13:34,633 --> 00:13:38,100
to discuss your apathy towards poetry.

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00:13:38,166 --> 00:13:39,800
I just think it's boring.

238
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What exactly do you find boring
about Romeo and Juliet?

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Can I be truthful?

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Truth has a quiet breast.

241
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Take your boy Romeo.
Real people don't act like that.

242
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Romeo is a wimp.

243
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- Wimp?
- He's weak, man.

244
00:13:55,233 --> 00:13:58,733
You made Romeo beg.

245
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Ten pages of the balcony scene
he was crawling on his knees,

246
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whimpering and crying.
He probably got runs in his little tights.

247
00:14:06,933 --> 00:14:11,100
- All you had to do� may I?
- By all means.

248
00:14:11,166 --> 00:14:12,600
Cool.

249
00:14:12,666 --> 00:14:15,800
Romeo's in the bushes.
He's looking up at Juliet, right?

250
00:14:15,866 --> 00:14:17,600
This is what he should say:

251
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"Juliet, thee likes thou,
and thou likes thee.

252
00:14:22,233 --> 00:14:25,133
"Yes, I said yes, woman.
Why don't me and you go down

253
00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:27,970
"to the midnight parking lot at Bumpy's
and get busy?"

254
00:14:29,466 --> 00:14:32,233
It's simple. You can use that if you want.

255
00:14:32,300 --> 00:14:33,933
Terribly kind of you.

256
00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:37,266
Young man, you have no idea
what poetry is.

257
00:14:37,333 --> 00:14:38,766
Poetry is passion.

258
00:14:38,767 --> 00:14:41,265
They got a lot of passion going on
down at Bumpy's.

259
00:14:41,266 --> 00:14:42,599
Have you seen that parking lot?

260
00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:46,466
Poetry fills your dreams with substance.

261
00:14:46,533 --> 00:14:51,166
It allows- demands that we not
just survive but that we flourish.

262
00:14:51,233 --> 00:14:52,800
There you go!

263
00:14:52,866 --> 00:14:55,700
I study something
that you can use in life,

264
00:14:55,766 --> 00:14:59,333
electrical engineering.

265
00:14:59,400 --> 00:15:03,033
I'm like the Shakespeare of calculus.

266
00:15:03,100 --> 00:15:05,433
You flatter yourself.

267
00:15:05,500 --> 00:15:08,166
I assume you've heard
of Leonardo da Vinci.

268
00:15:08,233 --> 00:15:10,433
The artist that painted Mona Lisa. Yeah.

269
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The artist who designed instruments,
musical and surgical,

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entire towns, domed churches.

271
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Leonardo was also a noted
theoretical mathematician

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And an engineer.

273
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Get out of here.

274
00:15:24,600 --> 00:15:29,033
And, Dwayne, Leonardo loved poetry.

275
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The power of the pen.

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Find something you feel passionate about

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and let your pen give it a voice.

278
00:15:52,233 --> 00:15:53,833
Ah. Not again.

279
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I'm getting out of here.

280
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- Ernest.
- Hi, Freddie.

281
00:16:35,733 --> 00:16:38,100
- Hi, you look nice.
- Thank you.

282
00:16:38,166 --> 00:16:41,933
I wanted to tell you you look very nice.

283
00:16:42,000 --> 00:16:43,533
I wore this sweater for you.

284
00:16:43,600 --> 00:16:47,200
Ernest, I had a date last night.

285
00:16:47,266 --> 00:16:48,766
Oh. Did you have fun?

286
00:16:49,233 --> 00:16:54,500
Yeah, and I wanted to tell you
that I feel�

287
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I feel�

288
00:16:57,333 --> 00:16:59,800
- Livingston!
- Brooksy.

289
00:17:00,533 --> 00:17:02,366
Dolores! Perfect timing.

290
00:17:02,433 --> 00:17:04,133
Does everyone know each other?

291
00:17:04,900 --> 00:17:06,099
Yeah, well, we're off.

292
00:17:06,700 --> 00:17:08,633
That's a nice sweater, man.

293
00:17:11,066 --> 00:17:14,166
- You were saying?
- What?

294
00:17:14,266 --> 00:17:16,766
- Let's go.
- Are you wearing shoes?

295
00:17:17,266 --> 00:17:20,300
Shoes? My favorite footwear.

296
00:17:20,366 --> 00:17:22,599
- Hi, Kim.
- Don't even look at him.

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00:17:29,133 --> 00:17:30,466
Whitley.

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- Do me a favor.
- Dwayne.

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- It is too late for me to write your poem.
- No, just read my poem.

300
00:17:38,466 --> 00:17:42,266
- Tell me if you get it.
- I'm surprised it fills a whole page.

301
00:17:42,366 --> 00:17:45,100
Okay. Just read it
and tell me if you get it.

302
00:17:45,166 --> 00:17:49,800
"'My First Love,'
by Dwayne Cleophus Wayne."

303
00:17:50,933 --> 00:17:53,333
- Ooh.
- My uncle on my mother's side.

304
00:17:53,433 --> 00:17:54,866
Ah.

305
00:17:54,933 --> 00:17:59,300
"She's always been a challenge to me
from my very first hello.

306
00:17:59,366 --> 00:18:02,033
"I pursued this woman of mystery,

307
00:18:02,100 --> 00:18:05,400
"determined she would not be
a puzzle to me."

308
00:18:05,466 --> 00:18:09,100
- Dwayne.
- Keep reading.

309
00:18:10,266 --> 00:18:13,200
"I soon found comfort in her complexity.

310
00:18:13,266 --> 00:18:18,133
"I look into her dark and smoky eyes
admiring her angles and curves.

311
00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:20,533
"Her elliptical lips�"

312
00:18:22,466 --> 00:18:26,066
- I can't read any more of this.
- Is it that bad?

313
00:18:26,700 --> 00:18:29,133
- It's beautiful.
- You get it?

314
00:18:29,766 --> 00:18:31,033
Uh-huh.

315
00:18:31,833 --> 00:18:35,066
- I'll talk to you after class.
- Thank you.

316
00:18:35,133 --> 00:18:39,000
Kim, Dwayne Wayne wrote me a love poem.

317
00:18:39,066 --> 00:18:42,233
- He said I had elliptical lips.
- Oh, Lord.

318
00:18:42,300 --> 00:18:43,600
Good morning, class.

319
00:18:43,601 --> 00:18:49,232
You still having hair on your heads means
you didn't pull it out writing poems.

320
00:18:49,233 --> 00:18:52,400
Around the second verse,
all my chest hairs fell out.

321
00:18:54,866 --> 00:18:57,466
Before we start,
I'd like to share a poem with you.

322
00:18:58,033 --> 00:19:00,143
I wrote it when I was
a freshman in college.

323
00:19:00,800 --> 00:19:03,500
I called it, "After The Hurricane."

324
00:19:04,933 --> 00:19:07,666
"A tree stands."

325
00:19:12,133 --> 00:19:13,833
"F."

326
00:19:13,834 --> 00:19:15,199
I just wanted to show you that

327
00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:17,790
nothing you could write
could be as pitiful as this.

328
00:19:21,533 --> 00:19:23,833
Don't worry, bro.
Your poem is twice as long.

329
00:19:23,900 --> 00:19:25,133
Shut up, man.

330
00:19:25,200 --> 00:19:27,433
So who wants to go first?

331
00:19:27,533 --> 00:19:30,633
Dwayne Wayne has written a wonderful poem.

332
00:19:30,700 --> 00:19:32,033
Dwayne.

333
00:19:32,100 --> 00:19:33,900
Our first volunteer.

334
00:19:35,166 --> 00:19:37,966
Unless anybody else wants to go first�

335
00:19:38,033 --> 00:19:39,533
Oh, God!

336
00:19:41,866 --> 00:19:43,533
- Thank you, Whitley.
- Ah!

337
00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:49,966
Well, okay.

338
00:19:50,866 --> 00:19:55,466
"'My First Love,'" by Dwayne Cl� Wayne."

339
00:19:59,300 --> 00:20:00,433
With feeling.

340
00:20:02,800 --> 00:20:06,533
"She's always been a challenge to me
from our very first hello.

341
00:20:07,133 --> 00:20:09,366
"I pursued this woman of mystery

342
00:20:09,433 --> 00:20:12,600
"determined she would not
be a puzzle to me.

343
00:20:12,666 --> 00:20:15,266
"I soon found comfort in her complexity.

344
00:20:15,766 --> 00:20:18,766
"I look into her dark and smoky eyes

345
00:20:19,366 --> 00:20:23,033
"admiring her angles and curves,
her elliptical lips."

346
00:20:23,100 --> 00:20:27,000
Elliptical lips. That's alliteration.
It's wonderful work.

347
00:20:31,966 --> 00:20:35,833
"She divides men from boys,
adding and subtracting hearts

348
00:20:36,433 --> 00:20:39,866
"until alone I stand,
her heart in my hand.

349
00:20:41,000 --> 00:20:42,433
"She is mine.

350
00:20:42,500 --> 00:20:44,900
"It's all for X, my first love."

351
00:20:46,166 --> 00:20:47,900
Bravo, bravo!

352
00:20:47,966 --> 00:20:51,866
The poetic imagery
just leaps off the page.

353
00:20:51,933 --> 00:20:56,066
"Dividing men from boys."

354
00:20:57,800 --> 00:21:01,700
I see this woman. I know her.

355
00:21:01,766 --> 00:21:02,933
I know her.

356
00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:09,300
Whitley, I see no woman at all.
I see a concept.

357
00:21:09,366 --> 00:21:13,166
Dwayne has discovered a love
greater than that of the flesh.

358
00:21:13,233 --> 00:21:18,933
Kobie,
I know this is all very new to you

359
00:21:19,033 --> 00:21:22,833
but in America, we don't write poems
about concepts.

360
00:21:22,900 --> 00:21:26,366
It's just not done. We write about love

361
00:21:26,433 --> 00:21:30,066
and the beautiful women
that add and subtract hearts.

362
00:21:30,133 --> 00:21:33,933
- That's my personal favorite line.
- You don't understand, Whitley.

363
00:21:34,533 --> 00:21:36,833
The poem is about mathematics.

364
00:21:36,900 --> 00:21:38,766
I think he's right.

365
00:21:38,833 --> 00:21:40,733
No one's talking to you.

366
00:21:40,800 --> 00:21:44,866
You can't write a love poem
about mathematics.

367
00:21:44,933 --> 00:21:47,266
Math is no one's first love.

368
00:21:47,333 --> 00:21:48,766
It's mine.

369
00:21:48,833 --> 00:21:52,666
- I thought it was Denise Huxtable.
- Shut up.

370
00:21:52,733 --> 00:21:57,300
Paul, please tell this man
what his poem's about.

371
00:21:57,866 --> 00:22:00,533
All of your interpretations are valid.

372
00:22:00,600 --> 00:22:03,900
In a good poem,
each of us sees what we want to see.

373
00:22:03,966 --> 00:22:06,933
Whitley, you saw a woman,
Kobie, you saw mathematics.

374
00:22:07,000 --> 00:22:10,266
- Someone else could think-
- It was too damn long.

375
00:22:12,566 --> 00:22:15,433
The poem can be about many things.

376
00:22:15,500 --> 00:22:17,033
It's about math.

377
00:22:17,100 --> 00:22:21,100
In 200 years from now,
it will have some other meaning entirely.

378
00:22:21,166 --> 00:22:23,233
It will still be about math.

379
00:22:23,300 --> 00:22:25,466
It will still be dumb.

380
00:22:25,533 --> 00:22:27,200
Of course, it's about math.

381
00:22:27,266 --> 00:22:29,200
But tell her it's about her.

382
00:22:29,766 --> 00:22:31,600
The woman is fine!

383
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