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Thank you so much.

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Thank you, Melissa.

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It's so wonderful
to be here, honored

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to read with you,
Laynie. And I want

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to thank Gail, and Cybele,
and Jamie, and Noah,

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and Casa Libre and Chax has
just on this beautiful chapbook

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Matriot acts.

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And I'm going to read first
from "Manatee/Humanity" and then

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a little bit of
the new chapbook.

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So very, very thrilled.

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Thank you, Charles.

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OK.

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"Manatee/Humanity" is a
long narrative hybrid poem,

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began with an encounter at a
aquarium, a sea park in Florida

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with a manatee.

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We stared into each other's
eyes for a long time.

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This manatee was female,
very scarred, very old.

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And I took a vow at that
point to include manatee

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in some kind of project.

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So that was the origin.

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And then I had been working
with the structure of something

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called the Kalachakra
initiation,

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which is a Tibetan Buddhist
ceremony, ritual that

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goes on for over three days.

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And one is given
instructions on dreams.

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And you visualize a
central deity that morphs

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and this sort of thing.

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So I decided to put the
manatee in the place

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of the deity in this ritual.

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So I'm going to read
from some parts of that.

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There's a bit of an introduction
called Undercurrent.

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And I talk about these various
structures for the poem.

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The Jack Spicer's metaphor for
the poet as the radio, the poet

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is always on.

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And what is the mind of manatee,
was a question for this poem.

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There seems
something wonderfully

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cognizant and primordial and
on in the manatee spirit,

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albeit at a less
speedy frequency.

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I remember William
Burroughs sensing,

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maybe riffing on
something Jack Kerouac

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had said that so many animals
seem to be in Samadhi.

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He thought this of his cats.

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And he often said that he would
prefer the company of lemurs

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to that of humans.

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And the lemur has a walk on in
the poem as does the gray wolf.

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And those of us who spend time
in Colorado and other parts

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out West have caught
up with that struggle

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for the life of the gray wolf.

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Then I talk a little bit
about the Buddhist view

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that all life forms
are interrelated

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through their
evolutionary history

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and that animal
and human minds are

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both participants in reality.

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We share the planet with
many non-human temporalities.

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Minds exist at
the quantum level,

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below the level of atoms,
and subatomic particles.

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As is said, minds never come
from nothing or go to nothing.

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I visualized the manatees
realm and the shallow pool

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as a shrine.

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I perceived her less as a victim
and more as a poetic deity.

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And I felt she had the
greater sympathy for me.

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The manatee ostensibly has
no use in the current world.

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It's odd how creatures
pacifistic transcendent

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even go extinct as human realms
of cruelty plunder and war

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grind on."

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So it's also a
meditation on evolution

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on what our humanity
has some lore

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of the manatee, the
drunken sailors who

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would see the manatee
come up with seaweed

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and think they were
mermaids, so on.

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So I'm going to
jump in and start

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a little bit at the
beginning and work

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through a bit of the poem.

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And let's see.

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Here's a little variant
of Sir Patrick Spens

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Out and starts the mermaid
in with a fan into her hand.

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Keep up your hearts,
my merry men,

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for you're near the dry land.

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Out and spake Earl Patrick
Graham with a saught

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tear in his eye Now, sin
we've seen the mermaid

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in, dry land we'll never see.

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And why did my brain incubate
all those long years?

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And why was it not using
its genius to make fire?

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And why not the making of which
would stir neurons further,

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and touching the texture of
stone shaping hand to stone,

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putting marks upon it
further, and why not?

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Why?

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To further beauty in
the making of art.

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And why in sound to not making
music all those long years,

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sounds imitate what must
have been the call of birds,

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or of the body, an internal
hum and chatter, and growl

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and chit, and woo, woo, woo.

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Parts of the body convening
together as alluvial,

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as sound together alluvial,
alluvial in strange harmony

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or discord, to or in
hunger, need, desire,

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fighting in all the
discords of desire,

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and wooing to signal
distress, signal delight,

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signal the stark moon you
see, and eclipsing of it.

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Signal distress, signal
delight, signal, signal redress

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mistress, redress,
and holy moon.

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And cry when the moon
disappears, returns,

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and celebrate by dancing.

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Why did not my brain dance
all those long years?

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Would this not be in the
frame of that incubation,

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its calibration toward
gender, toward yearning,

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toward other particulars of
size, and gaze, and color?

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How many thousands of years,
and between all and what

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is human thousands of
possibilities constituting,

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reconstituting thousands
upon thousands.

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And why did my brain
incubate all those long years

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not using its
genius to make fire?

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Cry for water with
a parched sound.

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And why?

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How could it with slow memory,
without knowledge of itself now

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growing, moving
slowly, know itself.

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Why?

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And why do you explore
the periphery of latere

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to lie hidden?

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My, what size you are my
hominid, and of intellect

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not strewn about.

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And why are you at the root of
my word, lanthanien to escape.

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Notice inside a universe
with a hidden dimension one

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tries curling up inside
of what if and why.

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And heard why not, explore
realms of where we meet.

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Oldowan stone of irregular edge
cuts another stone crudely.

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Stone of irregular
edge cuts broodingly.

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Old woman, old woman
hold the blunt instrument

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to soothe thee, of Acheulean
more gracile hammer flakes

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off stone rue thee And vocal
in the cry of hunt, hunt, kill,

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kill.

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What?

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Kill thee?

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Primate surprise,
chieftain so named

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by Linnaeus,
survival mechanisms,

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self-recognizing
prosimian mirror neuron.

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She stood up.

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Shrill, hurried conversation
expressing sorrow.

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Oh, snared swan once in
the mirror backlit by sun,

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beauty me a snared swan.

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I excite you, gesticulate
modern heterosexist presumption

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not in place by candlelight.

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You are beauty.

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You moving up the
ladder of the spine.

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And I, a fragmented me.

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Do mirrors have eyes?

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With bestial affection
for you of kin,

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but no matter of purpose.

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Shatter would a shepherdess
be in a eclogue splendor

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if she could be.

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But these cranial
valleys and stars

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both by kin of this action,
left hand lifts, kind palm

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open, hands free for
greater locomotion,

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out on open savanna,
slope of beckoning.

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Now, swing, turn,
grab a kindred object.

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How you feel, attraction,
hold, offer a mandible heart.

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Cross-dressed body
puts on syncretic pelt,

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and moves as in plucky mating
dance, stabs at promise,

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tongues, words stand
up, looking eye to eye.

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My grip around your legs.

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Footprints at Laetoli.

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Three australopithecines crossed
a carpet of fresh volcanic ash,

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walking much as we do in two
legged gait, hip and leg gone

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much the way toward human form
in place of what in apes suits

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them for swinging
through trees, scamper

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on all fours across a
line that leads to man.

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They decided to walk
to the ferryboat now.

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The map of the lakes
lay on the table.

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She picked up the book close
by setting the map aside.

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And as she approached it,
she looked closely now.

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Looking at it, she
was happy to see.

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And she did this
quickly, lifted as she

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was by the title, the
photographs within,

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walls, a superimposition
of a she-wolf's face.

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It was a book by a friend,
the name of her friend

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clearly on it, whose
writing she admired.

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It was lateral writing, a kind
of meditation on the detritus

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and refuse, and
vast sweep of times

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ravage upon many great
cities, diasporas

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of visible and
invisible migrations.

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Subsequent incursions that make
their curious desperate mark

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on the faces of cities.

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A photo of the friend
stares out squarely,

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defiant, she might
say, knowing him.

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But perhaps, not more certain
of the credibility of line

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and mark and point,
a puncture and fury.

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He was one to walk
a lot and comment

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upon the certainty of seething,
and disploding peoples

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of people pull to the
maelstrom of survival of them,

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pushing and pulling,
tug at this.

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What you say, a string, a
lifeline, and back streets,

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places by water.

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Melancholy survival deals
that dealt a raw hand.

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He had traveled to
the undersides of them

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indefatigably, and lived
in the interstices,

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watching those cities
below her imagination.

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What he had seen, what he had
seen below the imagination,

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he had seen odd
delineations of fear,

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and seething, and
disploding juxtaposed

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with mad delight of martyrdom,
how impedes everywhere,

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the ethos by any
necessary means.

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He meant they were
crowded like rats,

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or like the circumpolar
head people living

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under the sea, ghosts
consisting only of a head.

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Ghosts waiting to be
buried off the killing

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fields of Srebrenica.

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Doctor districts outside
Paris where the trouble

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they complain of arrives from.

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She thought of semaphores.

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He was trying to tell her
something with his signals,

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with his codes, and
flags, and where

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they might measure distress,
could measure help them now,

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signal distress, distress.

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It was words, words,
only now, the very

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close by within walking from
their temporary shelter.

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He was of the words only school.

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Then turning words to
movies, those moving

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pictures impersonating shadows,
and moving pictures school

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and movies, movies.

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Only for you could tell in
light he would say, words.

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And he liked them dark,
transgressive even.

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And what are you wishing on?

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I mean, working,
working on, he asked.

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Chewing on the mammal.

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It was like an hallucination.

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First, the object
strewn about where

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they had arrived from a book,
a map, quadrants discarded now,

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a sense of the shelter
and the departing from it.

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Map cast aside, they
would try their luck.

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His caverns of cities wait of
them in him in her mind now.

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They had sat with their lunch
on another ferry, Lago di

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Como, animal bereft,
lithic underpinnings.

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And the writing they
both did took you

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to those other places, waves
on the Bosphorus, Istanbul,

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or Cambodia.

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They both wrote as if
in the grip of a fever.

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Have you ever had
the terrible dengue?

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Because of urgency, survival
to describe the known world

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of any reach or
stretch of imagination,

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the relative world
of death and change

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with the machinations of
capitalism grinding away,

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charged a mysterious brute
force and deracination

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Was her time irreversible?

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How many objects
put to the test?

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Taken apart, deconstruct them
into their essential nature,

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compassion.

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Name outliving the
person who carries it

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as with a book, name,
identity, person.

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And have you heard he asked,
of the continent of detritus

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100,000 pounds of
petroleum plastic,

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twice the size of
your continent?

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He was not American born.

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Churning in a vortex,
the water animals

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under the intense burden,
the intense burden of naming.

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How do we know them by
their sound, by their cry?

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Struggling in the serpent coils
of plastic, marred, scarred.

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And she wondered
what animals must

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be sacrificed to the
colonization of time,

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to the colonization of cities,
the colonization of oceans,

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when science doesn't
find something.

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She mused two possibilities
toward him in her philosophy,

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the not finding of something
that doesn't exist,

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and the case of even
though something exists,

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it can't be found.

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Do you know what I say of this?

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Not exactly the purpose.

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And he, there is a
world that is enough.

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Start here.

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Like to go with you
he said, with you,

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and picking up her thought
like wind's cognition

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said again, what is unmistaken.

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And she, I know him.

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I know my friend by looking
at him in my mirror of him.

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And we rode then
many miles, when

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riding was a way of
thinking, investigating

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places, people, animals, some
miles of them, tribes and all.

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And in sympathy, being
magic ones, poet ones,

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because we could ride
out in another century,

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and bring the past
along wondering what

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animal traps, the what
of, what of animal cages.

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And the troops, we saw them
embarking in the distance.

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What traps the troops,
and torture unseen?

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But you see it in the
mind most impossible

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a subject, which becomes
a trapped factor of life,

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mere trappings, razor wires
meant torching men, lynching,

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and summoning the animals to
the hunt dressed in their skins

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with gestures and sounds
from the vibrating larynx,

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seeing that becoming them,
being them, eating them.

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Animals of troubled descent,
or sewing the star flower

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shirts by which the birds would
be brought back to human shape.

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It was a time of fossil fuel
priorities, a precious business

00:14:26.150 --> 00:14:26.660 align:middle line:90%
time.

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That's what they'll say
about a century since.

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It was a busy get on with it
time, a busy business time.

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So better get on with it time.

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They fucked us all over.

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And they're greedy
get over a time.

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That's what they'll
say about us.

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What were they thinking?

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Stupid fuckers, it
was commodification

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fun hog time, time modification
time, got on with time.

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We killed time.

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They fucked us over
in our future time.

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We'll be surely more
stressed in time.

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That's what they'll be saying.

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That's what they'll say.

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They got on with it, saying
about us going nowhere,

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but going down, and
us all with them.

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What were they thinking
in their selfish minds?

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Us, us, us.

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That's what they'll say
about us generations hence

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how living then hence
without so many animals.

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Hence, they fucked
the world over

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in their sweet
avaricious time frame.

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That's what they'll
say about us.

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Those stupid fuckers,
they let the animals die.

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They let the plants die.

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They killed the air.

00:15:22.970 --> 00:15:24.320 align:middle line:90%
They killed the water.

00:15:24.320 --> 00:15:26.030 align:middle line:90%
They killed each other.

00:15:26.030 --> 00:15:29.000 align:middle line:90%
They killed language.

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Humdrum Paleolithic,
where we could

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talk in sweet time notches.

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Well, that's over.

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Where the fuck did
that ever evolve to?

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Then along 20,000
years of keeping time,

00:15:41.390 --> 00:15:44.870 align:middle line:84%
once keeping it all and
moving it time forward,

00:15:44.870 --> 00:15:47.930 align:middle line:84%
and it the art forward,
and it humanity forward.

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And now, they want to kill it.

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Really, they killed it.

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Then a long rim, a Babylonian
rim of Egyptian 5,000 years

00:15:56.870 --> 00:15:58.820 align:middle line:90%
once ago, such progress.

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They kill all that too.

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Stupid fuckers.

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Then but now my solar
day, my lunar month,

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my solar year, my speed,
I inherited from them.

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What time is it now?

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And we resumed our talk.

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After these excessive
outbreaks, discussing the nature

00:16:16.880 --> 00:16:20.720 align:middle line:84%
of calibration, how different
times give the peculiarities

00:16:20.720 --> 00:16:23.030 align:middle line:84%
and particulars of
people and praxis,

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and place, and thought systems
have become their own zones

00:16:26.330 --> 00:16:27.780 align:middle line:90%
in this.

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We spoke of lustrations
and the architectures

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of spiritual places,
of constructing

00:16:33.030 --> 00:16:35.910 align:middle line:84%
mandalas with colored
sands, and the women who

00:16:35.910 --> 00:16:39.870 align:middle line:84%
dance on the precipice
of eclipses, performance

00:16:39.870 --> 00:16:44.130 align:middle line:84%
and ritual under arches pillars
that delineate the way to move

00:16:44.130 --> 00:16:45.390 align:middle line:90%
as a chorus might.

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Open atriums, they are moving
into the augur's space,

00:16:49.380 --> 00:16:53.040 align:middle line:84%
the space of frequent
animal sacrifice.

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Both, both he cautioned further.

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It's quite
unconscionably relative.

00:16:58.320 --> 00:17:00.540 align:middle line:84%
That doesn't
explain, I protested,

00:17:00.540 --> 00:17:04.490 align:middle line:90%
the way we brutalize time.

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The manatee is found in
shallow slow moving rivers.

00:17:08.359 --> 00:17:13.640 align:middle line:84%
The manatee moves in estuaries,
moves in saltwater bays.

00:17:13.640 --> 00:17:16.790 align:middle line:84%
The manatee in
moving moves gently.

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The manatee is to be found
in canals and coastal areas.

00:17:21.170 --> 00:17:24.050 align:middle line:84%
The manatee is a
migratory animal.

00:17:24.050 --> 00:17:27.260 align:middle line:84%
The manatee is gentle
and slow moving.

00:17:27.260 --> 00:17:31.190 align:middle line:84%
The manatee moves in slow
moving rivers slowly.

00:17:31.190 --> 00:17:34.130 align:middle line:84%
The manatee is
completely herbivorous.

00:17:34.130 --> 00:17:38.420 align:middle line:84%
The West Indian manatee
has no natural enemies.

00:17:38.420 --> 00:17:42.740 align:middle line:84%
The manatee has no natural
enemies, but unnatural man.

00:17:42.740 --> 00:17:44.960 align:middle line:84%
The manatee is
constantly threatened

00:17:44.960 --> 00:17:49.730 align:middle line:84%
by man, unnaturally man
with his boats and plastic,

00:17:49.730 --> 00:17:50.930 align:middle line:90%
and attitude.

00:17:50.930 --> 00:17:53.840 align:middle line:84%
The manatee often
drowns in canal locks

00:17:53.840 --> 00:17:57.590 align:middle line:84%
of man, man who makes no
concession to manatee.

00:17:57.590 --> 00:18:01.370 align:middle line:84%
The manatee often dies in
flood control structures.

00:18:01.370 --> 00:18:04.640 align:middle line:84%
Man who makes no concession
to manatee, nor cares

00:18:04.640 --> 00:18:07.040 align:middle line:84%
of manatee life,
manatee fortune.

00:18:07.040 --> 00:18:10.340 align:middle line:84%
The manatee dies in
collision with watercraft.

00:18:10.340 --> 00:18:13.010 align:middle line:84%
Man who does not protect
the manatee, what

00:18:13.010 --> 00:18:16.190 align:middle line:84%
steward of the Earth
is this unnatural man,

00:18:16.190 --> 00:18:19.130 align:middle line:84%
man who makes no
concession to manatee?

00:18:19.130 --> 00:18:21.620 align:middle line:84%
The manatee dies
with the ingestion

00:18:21.620 --> 00:18:23.780 align:middle line:84%
of fish hooks, man
who unnaturally

00:18:23.780 --> 00:18:25.250 align:middle line:90%
makes no concession.

00:18:25.250 --> 00:18:28.850 align:middle line:84%
The manatee dies from litter
and monofilament lines.

00:18:28.850 --> 00:18:32.660 align:middle line:84%
Man who is ranked in attitude
has no use for manatee.

00:18:32.660 --> 00:18:36.200 align:middle line:84%
The manatee dies entrapped
in crab trap lines.

00:18:36.200 --> 00:18:39.740 align:middle line:84%
The manatee dies from loss
of habitat claimed by man.

00:18:39.740 --> 00:18:42.080 align:middle line:84%
The manatee could
be maimed by man.

00:18:42.080 --> 00:18:45.470 align:middle line:84%
The manatee could be
aided by man, man.

00:18:45.470 --> 00:18:50.750 align:middle line:84%
Oh wait, the manatee, man,
come to the manatee heart.

00:18:50.750 --> 00:18:54.110 align:middle line:84%
A manatee calf is born
every two to five years.

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A manatee gestates for a
year in the manatee womb.

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8,400 miles of tidal waters
could be for the manatee.

00:19:02.330 --> 00:19:05.180 align:middle line:84%
11,000 miles of
rivers and streams

00:19:05.180 --> 00:19:07.430 align:middle line:90%
could be for the manatee.

00:19:07.430 --> 00:19:11.780 align:middle line:84%
10,000 miles of canals, would
they all be for the manatee?

00:19:11.780 --> 00:19:15.080 align:middle line:84%
The manatee has more gray
matter in the brain than man.

00:19:15.080 --> 00:19:19.670 align:middle line:84%
The manatee is perhaps thinking
archivally deeper than man,

00:19:19.670 --> 00:19:21.800 align:middle line:90%
ancient days of manatee.

00:19:21.800 --> 00:19:25.730 align:middle line:84%
So many thousands of
years, manatee mind.

00:19:25.730 --> 00:19:28.220 align:middle line:90%
What is the mind of manatee?

00:19:28.220 --> 00:19:31.340 align:middle line:84%
The manatee has no
natural enemies.

00:19:31.340 --> 00:19:34.370 align:middle line:84%
The manatee is
completely herbivorous.

00:19:34.370 --> 00:19:38.300 align:middle line:84%
The metabolism of this
manatees slow, move slowly.

00:19:38.300 --> 00:19:43.060 align:middle line:90%


00:19:43.060 --> 00:19:44.230 align:middle line:90%
And it goes on.

00:19:44.230 --> 00:19:48.780 align:middle line:90%
[AUDIENCE APPLAUSE]

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