[music playing in background],iha chi. iha chi! the samurai is calling me. i wonder what is wrong. did you call me? yes,iha chi! i'm sorry. next door being noisy. sorry i will go and tell them to be quiet. very, very sorry. [loud party noises] come on in. excuse me. sorry. can you keep the noise down please? be a little bit quieter. huh? be quiet. look at this. three young men on holiday. three beautiful geishas and all this expensive saki we ordered from you and you tell us to be quiet. actually we don't mind but someone next door complained. someone complained? about us? tell them to come here and complain to our faces. no. no. wait! i understand. they're just jealous. we're here having a good time and they're all alone, right? that's it. they're just jealous. maybe so but actually it's not just an ordinary person that complains. what do you mean not an ordinary person? someone with three heads, six legs? a ghost? very funny, sir, but actually it's a samurai. samurai? next door? why didn't you tell us. we don't like samurais? sometimes they just kill people by mistakes. sorry abo

because,iha chi i just wanted a quiet night! [applause] [music] >> hi and welcome back to authors who make you think. i appreciate you wanting to think on a beautiful saturday afternoon. 8 years ago in the ban shell at golden gate park. jonathan, one of our readers was there. 20 readers and 8 afternoons and now there are venues around the city. i will read a few poems. the first one is, after the bleeding. it was inspired by 2 photos that were in the san francisco chronicle in june 2005. the first, i will read the captions. photo captions. and follow with the poem. children watch as police collect pieces of bodies from a suicide bombing. front page photo caption san francisco chronicle june 14, 2005. >> the not guilty verdicts in the michael jackson trial. front page photo caption, san francisco chronicle june 14, 2005. after the bleeding the blood spattered walls draw the gaze of children wanting to see what has caused such a noise. how can they not stair. arms and legs, pieces of torso scattered, the smell of new death and fea

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the thing is it ihas almost become commonplace. it is not nearly surprising today as it was back then. >> more about tpm end-marshall sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. -- about josh marshall sunday night at 8:00 p.m. eastern. >> they have announced a settlement between the five largest mortgage lenders over foreclosure abuses. under the agreement, the lenders will reduce loans for nearly 1 million households and send checks to others who were wrongfully foreclosed upon. president obama spoke about the agreement for 10 minutes. >> all right, good afternoon, everybody. before i start, i just want to introduce the folks on stage here, because the extraordinary work that they did is the reason that a lot of families are going to be helped all across the country. first of all, our attorney general eric holder, secretary of housing and urban development shaun donovan, associate attorney general -- and former classmate of mine -- tom perrelli. we've got attorney general george jepsen from connecticut, roy cooper, attorney general from no