Elliott Smith reading a poem in 1997 Pigpile

poem begins at 1:35
At the bottom of a pigpile
Person X sits
tangled up in trunks and limbs.
The room is so full of fucking opinion
that only the biggest people can move at all,
and when they do,
which is out of boredom or desperation,
some smallish little unfortunate gets pinched in the process
and gets hurt
and starts shrieking
and if anybody is bleeding
then they are immediately taken out
by two big gorillas who take them to the main chimp
who brow-beats them and decides to feed them fewer bananas.
If none of these treatments work to stop the bleeding then they are carted off to the zoo.
Otherwise we wait and sleep, and sleep and wait, and scream and wait, and scream again.
So welcome to the hospital you stupid animal.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• elliott
• smith
• poem
• poetry
• 1997

[Tayl0NP]

Is the entire concert obtainable anywhere?

I kinda wanted to know what song he ended up playing...

Thanks by the way, my day was made so much better thanks to this.

[mymayapapaya]

Yes, on internet archive. Knitting Factory 1997.

[fizzko]

Could you possibly give me the audio file of both Pigpile and Point A? I didn't know he'd ever been recorded reading these poems. Thanks for uploading the videos, it's amazing to hear him read them.

[mymayapapaya]

CYE :)

[idiocyinbubbles]

"I don't rock!" hahahhaha

[pollobionico]

i was at this show and it was absolutely fantastic!

[villasixx]

i wrote a poem like this one il message it if u dont steal it

[irishsassenach]

This is the one that you didn't like...but I still wanna read it, it means something to me. Oh Elliott...I love this.

[burgermikestir]

Sweet recording of the concert...

Elliott is always at his best behavior during his concerts.

[PpPayton379]

oh haha my bad. thanks for pointing that out

[wheresgeorge1025]

It's in the description.

[PpPayton379]

i can't understand what he's saying when he reading the poem =(

anyone know what he's saying???

[futoncat]

so appropriate after this poem haha

[davidmvquez]

he read that really well

[davidmvquez]

that was really dark