| 1 | "Libation, " North Carolina, 1999. | |
| 2 | The first thing to do at a sacrifice is to toast the elderly. | |
| 3 | And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon. | |
| 4 | The poem is called "Libation," and it's for my friend Vusi who is in the audience here somewhere. | |
| 5 | And make its plates and dishes of pure gold, as well as its pitchers and bowls for the pouring out of offerings. |