we only have one woman applying, mrs. muse, and i would like to appoint her to seat four. >> it was good to see you and i appreciate you applying again. i would like to see you on the shelter monitoring committee. we can nominate her for seat four. >> i would just like to ask a question. in the back -- are you currently living with a child under the age of 18? that is a qualification for the first seat. >> you are reading that correctly. >> simon martinez has also applied, and i believe he has a child under the age of 18. >> he testified and he was very impressive. i was very impressed with your testimony and i would have liked to have been able to appoint you, but we needed that. this is a specific qualification. unfortunately, we would have to go with mr. martinez. but unfortunately, he is a fine candidate, but unfortunately for you, sir. >> we will likely have openings again that do not require you to have a child, and we encourage you to apply again. we have a motion to move to simon martinez for the first seat, and the mo

we only have one woman applying, mrs. muse, and i would like to appoint her to seat four. >> it was good to see you and i appreciate you applying again. i would like to see you on the shelter monitoring committee. we can nominate her for seat four. >> i would just like to ask a question. in the back -- are you currently living with a child under the age of 18? that is a qualification for the first seat. >> you are reading that correctly. >> simon martinez has also applied,

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