man loving his strength. the lock i replaced this morning will not keep him away. my lover who lives far away opens the door to my room and brings me nothing. perhaps he has noticed how fat i have grown indulged. perhaps he is poor and sick as emptying his store. it is no matter to me any longer he has filled me already so full. my lover who is far away opens the door to my room and tells me he is tired. i do not ask what he's tired from for my lover far away has already disappeared. the blankets are big with his body. the cat, under the covers

because it is cold out and she is not stupid. muse. >> thank you. [applause]. >> please welcome mr. douglas kaerny. [applause] >> how many know the song living in the city by stevie wonder. that great skit at end where stevie plays all the voices and gets arrested. new york city, skyscrapers and everything. this is a poem that reimagines that gentlemen exists the bus in that skit as john henry. this is a section of it. skyscrapers and everything. j hammer henry mallet [inaudible] could barely fit hammer poking out like natural

man's skyscraper to the concrete for deep machine sleep abouts income. don't go john henry traffic man, don't go across that street. the flood song poems were poems written in reaction to katrina. how can i enter that space of writing poems about that. i'm not from there and don't have family there. who benefits from that tragedy? who benefits from that disregard for humanity and the thought animals would benefit from that. this first poem is flood songs number 4 mosquitoes drinking didy. >> drink every hour next up this hour and every hour after. was born in the river there is

enough to go around. drink every hour on the hour and every hour after. in the river there is enough to go around. drink every hour. there is enough to go around. drink every hour and every hour after. go to the river there is enough to go around. drink up the hours and every after burned down by the river -- drink air land is here for after survivors go around they are enough. [applause] >> flood song 8 stray dogs duet. >> the every i learned. food. for the good.

love. your hand smiled with me. you wanted me to understand you with -- my teeth. hunger seemed the only -- tongue we shared. the sky -- opened. closed it's door. the sky -- opens, closes it's door. the sky -- hunger seems the only master. no, we both understand something like love. good doggie, good doggie what i do now. [applause] >> now you can feed pigeons and they know to go there to get food. sharks follow the ships because if you have humans packed and

one gets sick you have to get rid of the sick one so it doesn't get the others sick you 3 them over board and the sharks follow. slim chance for [inaudible] it samples parliament, little mermaid. ts eljot and robert haden. >> never learned to swim. but we sure can dive. over million ships -- over million ship. iowa woo. let your fish bones live old man. let your fish bones before man. make a wish the black fish there is company coming, coming. hammer heads ham or head until

hammer fed company knocking. great white shark. great white georgia no, no. they company dining, dining. [inaudible] can't remember, can't remember. there is company [inaudible]. and all know was a dark room cloud and gullets filled with [inaudible]. cattle, chattel, channel of the deep blue. see all about that dark moon cloud and the gullets full of water and slaughter. assault, assault oh , channel of the deep blue sea. sure no one will see. just look out the world around you right here on the ocean floor. such wonderful things around you what more is you looking for. rag ed claws scuffling across

the seas. tell be thin, fine, attention nigger mermaids, chains like hooks and sifrpgs are didy don't bleed into the sea the stains won't watch out we ain't responsible for your mess. the management. there is company, can't remember. there is company. the stains will not wash out. [applause] >> he wasn't dragged death in a quick casual way. they had fun with his body they chained him to the back of the car did fish tails. forensic evidence suggests his body came lose and some of the men confessed and rechained him after rolling back over him to get him. most of us heard about this

tragedy. something we don't hear is because dragged to death we assume he was dragged like this. see that way chained to the truck it's not true. he was not dragged like that he was dragged like this. chained the back of the truck watching the road behind him. this poem is called big thicket jasper, texas. a crack is a buck shot. big thickel. crack, headlights staggering home. the road kills. crack, big thicket. the sticks, drink, drink, headlight stagger in the road. creek, crack, stick broke light kills. big thickel. buck shot by the white headlights to big thicket. what you looking at.

crack, the white stick big thicket along the trees. the buck is staggering home. crack, we go to big thicket what you are doing here. break for home. on the road, go, go, crack, crack, crack, big thicket. headlights what you think you are. huff, is this, critic o crack, a stick broke. buck in the brushes. put them back on. what you think. in the rushes. put them back o. big thicket we go to creek. go to head staggers along the trees. crack, a stick broke the creek breaks big thicket we go, buck shot, home we go, go, big thicket. road kill. staggering bucks. headlight rushes. screeching. road screeching, what you what

you. we go, we go. crack. bones. road kills a broke stick along the staggering creek we go on. [applause] >> i will close with a poem from the book it's live evil. a name of a miles davis album we know that miles davis abused his wife. physically. pearl initially had mad at miles the reason this poem exist system because of that esan and the epigraphs that will ground it some more. quote, miles was guilt of self confessed violet crimes against women we should break his records and burn his cd's until he apologizes. the trumpet's mouth is apology.

you just write a poem about your need to do that a madual johnson. all right. live people. the pins point come downs on the butter fly. the knuckle come down on ms. sisly. the mallet come down on the cd case. wait! the mallet come down on the butter fly. the pins point come down on the ms. sisly. the knuckle come down on the cd case. wait! >> the knuckle come down on the buttir fly. the pins point come down on the cd case. dammit. the butter fly, ms. sisly the cd case. the roses rips at the spit much

the phoenix dazzling petals births something. the martir's smile that saves something. what did we make? listen to the butter fly, the pinpoint makes no sound sticking the [inaudible] no brass wail to the air here it's silent as a necktie this is not right. ms. sisly a cd case and a pin striped suit did he stick her lips red. i don't know, i don't know. sometimes he wore a pin striped 3 piece and a dazzling tie. i have a mallet did he kiss her. lips red. did he stick her with a pins point much listen to the brass ware and butter fly the plastic and silence breaks. this is a

man thinking he can build with a mallet. a martir with knuckles. this it is a man who through out the notes. wait. dammit, ms. sisly why won't you listen to the man who writes lynches. he had a mallet and the oils in the hands cripple the butter fly won't fly again so butter wait. butter stay. butter still. what have we made that awakes. stay still. listen to the song of a man in his sleeping shell. it come down it come down. the pinpoint, the knuckle, the mallet. wait a bit. no birthing. no saving. no feeding. dammit! >> listen to the song of a man who makes what have we made?

thank you. [applause] >> in keeping with the university of san francisco tradition to invite the mayor to speak, we are honored to have in our presence today, the mayor of the city and county of san francisco, the honorable edwin m. lee. mayor lee received his law

degree from the university of california-berkeley. for more than 20 years, he has contributed to san francisco in numerous capacities, including as director of public works and the director of the public rights commission. in january 2007, mayor lee answered the call to complete the remaining year of former mayor gavin newsome. during that time, a groundswell of support in the boisterous campaign, and he was finally persuaded to pursue elected office. in november, he was overwhelmingly elected mayor of san francisco. he is the first asian-american to serve as mayor of san francisco. please join me in welcoming the

honorable edwin m. lee. [applause] mayor lee: thank you. members of the board of trustees, faculty and staff of the university of san francisco, family and friends -- good morning class of 2012. [cheering] thank you for that very kind introduction. also, thank you -- alex, you are valedictorian. something tells me we might see alex later. and perhaps he will be running for office some day.

we could lose it -- we could use your leadership in government today. a man of a wonderful sense of humor never fails to reflect. i'm going to try to avoid controversy today. many of you may not realize, i, too, and quite a comedian. just ask my daughters and my wife. they'll laugh at every single one of my jokes. really. and then there is that entertaining reality tv show i am a part of, that brings to help the -- healthy dose of comedy, sometimes trauma -- drama on a regular basis. it is called city hall.

being mayor is a job i love. they have given me the opportunity. it is a privilege to wake up each morning and work for you, the people of san francisco, and do everything i can to help you succeed and grow in your lives. class of 2012, that is what your date is about. it is growing in your lives for yourselves, your family, and as your mayor, i will selfishly say, for your city. in whatever community you go to from here. i have been thinking lately -- you know, i have done some good things in my generation. here in san francisco, we raised our voices against war, whether the it, or elsewhere -- whether

vietnam or elsewhere. we have blazed trails in social justice. so that all of our people -- women, african-americans, asian- americans, gay, lesbian, latino -- but have equal rights. we were the first city in america ought to have universal health care for all residents. when i was not much older than you, when i graduated from bowdoin college, i wanted to raise all little heck to make the world a better place. i work to prevent the eviction of elderly chinese and filipino residents. we sued the san francisco fire department to give women and people of color a chance to be a

firefighter. and i think we made a difference. today, the city hired a woman to lead our fire department. i could never have imagined in my lifetime, the city would -- the country and the city would elect an african-american president or an asian american mayor. we also screwed up a few things along the way, from the economy to the environment and social justice. and now, class of 2012, the challenges and the promise of the world are your challenges and promises. your next assignment -- your homework for the rest of your life -- i can do that because i am mayor -- is to run the ball a little further down the field and get us to a better place.

i know, many of you are thinking "mayor, i have got to get a job. i have to repay my student loans. i have to prepare for my family." yes, you do. i know going out into the world to fend for yourself in this economy is difficult. it is survival of the fittest, like something out of "the hunter games." -- "the hunger games." but you are not on your own. is more like -- it is more like "the avengers." while it may not always be evident and while you may face many challenges throughout your life, always remember you are surrounded by a not so secret

society of people who want to help you. these are people in business, and governments, sports, entertainment, health care, education. people who have achieved some measure of success or wisdom in there own lives. the greatest gift they can ever give is to pass on a little bit of that wisdom to you and help you succeed to an even greater degree. don't get me wrong. you and you alone decide what you were going to do with that education and this opportunity and do not waste it. don't ever be afraid to ask for help. whether it is your boss, your family, your mayor. look to your own communities and ask yourself "how can i give back?

how can i use my education to help my community and add to the valuable work within my neighborhood or my city?" because if there's one thing i see in this economy that is emerging, clean tech and biotech that are adding some new jobs to our city, is that success does not come from going it alone. success comes from collaboration. bringing diverse backgrounds together to a common goal. new companies, out incubators in the market. they do not offices. they have a big open tables. they have whiteboards everywhere. the building is built around the

notion of collaboration, the idea that success comes from sharing ideas and goals. because that is how we get innovation. that is how you, class of 2012, will lead the world a better place and fix things my generation did not quite get to. that is not just innovation in technology and our economy, but innovative approaches in the health field, curing diseases, cleaning the air and water, and dealing with social justice. there is no better start than here. we are the gateway to the pacific rim and asia. to the west, the booming economies of latin america and brazil. we are the international destination are rhumba world -- around the world.

you, class of 2012, are part of what makes san francisco brand. you represent new ideas, new frontiers, new beginnings. that innovation is perfected in your university's new marketing campaign. "change the world from here." some of them definitely make you smile. academics covering the world from north beach? funny. the one that struck me the most -- "there is no moral compass app." so, i say to you as well, don't lose yourself and your values. don't forget where you came from, even amid the success you

may achieve. some of you know the chinese zodiac for 2012 is the year of the dragon. dragon is the only mythical animal in the chinese zodiac and the most powerful. the year of the dragon is fittingly a time for risk- taking, bold decision, and innovation. class of 2012, san francisco and the world need your risk-taking. sees the year of the dragon for yourselves, your families, for the rest of us. -- seize the year of the dragon. you are graduating at a time of immense promise. i know i am a little biased, but there is no better place to spend the rest of your lives. we are so proud to you. we are counting on you and we are here to help you realize

your greatest objectives. thank you and congratulations, class of 2012. [applause]

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>> good morning. i am darlene bryant, your mc for this morning. the first economic and trade seminar here in our beautiful city. city hall in san francisco. housekeeping items. you'll notice on your chair there is a little box. we're having simultaneous interpreting. you will find these. insert into the