WEBVTT

00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.020 align:middle line:90%


00:00:05.020 --> 00:00:06.790 align:middle line:90%
So here's a new poem.

00:00:06.790 --> 00:00:08.930 align:middle line:84%
This is the one my
wife told me to read.

00:00:08.930 --> 00:00:11.350 align:middle line:84%
She said, read that love
poem where you have the worst

00:00:11.350 --> 00:00:13.000 align:middle line:90%
line you've ever written.

00:00:13.000 --> 00:00:17.290 align:middle line:84%
And you'll see where the worst
line comes in, but it's so bad,

00:00:17.290 --> 00:00:19.120 align:middle line:90%
I kind of like it.

00:00:19.120 --> 00:00:20.440 align:middle line:90%
Poem is called "Sclera."

00:00:20.440 --> 00:00:22.210 align:middle line:90%
You know it's sclera is?

00:00:22.210 --> 00:00:24.460 align:middle line:90%
It's the whites of the eyes.

00:00:24.460 --> 00:00:27.490 align:middle line:90%
And, you know, anthropologists--

00:00:27.490 --> 00:00:31.570 align:middle line:84%
it's big question
in anthropology,

00:00:31.570 --> 00:00:34.570 align:middle line:84%
what came first, language
or the whites of the eyes?

00:00:34.570 --> 00:00:36.430 align:middle line:84%
It seems that whites
of the eyes have

00:00:36.430 --> 00:00:39.100 align:middle line:90%
to almost precede the latter.

00:00:39.100 --> 00:00:40.810 align:middle line:90%
And so, there's little epigraph.

00:00:40.810 --> 00:00:45.520 align:middle line:84%
"It is likely Homo ergaster is
the first human ancestor who

00:00:45.520 --> 00:00:48.940 align:middle line:84%
had visible sclera,
whites of the eyes,

00:00:48.940 --> 00:00:50.920 align:middle line:84%
identical to those
in modern humans."

00:00:50.920 --> 00:00:53.500 align:middle line:90%


00:00:53.500 --> 00:00:57.130 align:middle line:84%
"You share the kill, fingers
circling a thigh bone

00:00:57.130 --> 00:00:58.690 align:middle line:90%
shattered open.

00:00:58.690 --> 00:01:03.130 align:middle line:84%
One hand sucks the copious
marrow, the other hovers,

00:01:03.130 --> 00:01:07.240 align:middle line:84%
then strokes the still
nascent chin of your mate.

00:01:07.240 --> 00:01:12.610 align:middle line:84%
Strokes and strokes, an all
divine moral, you are guttural

00:01:12.610 --> 00:01:16.540 align:middle line:84%
whisper, tinctures of
noun, and verb pharynx

00:01:16.540 --> 00:01:19.130 align:middle line:90%
a work in progress.

00:01:19.130 --> 00:01:22.570 align:middle line:84%
But the eyes are
besnowed and watchful.

00:01:22.570 --> 00:01:27.520 align:middle line:84%
They dart and waver, then
fix into consummating gaze.

00:01:27.520 --> 00:01:33.430 align:middle line:84%
Sclera, aglow and glossy,
is multipurpose 24 pound,

00:01:33.430 --> 00:01:36.610 align:middle line:84%
wherein slow iris
and russet pupil

00:01:36.610 --> 00:01:42.410 align:middle line:84%
stalk their text more ancient
than Runic or Linear B.

00:01:42.410 --> 00:01:47.560 align:middle line:84%
O my beloved, by the windows
of the soul, we fuck.

00:01:47.560 --> 00:01:50.410 align:middle line:84%
We throw the
curtains open, bodies

00:01:50.410 --> 00:01:57.400 align:middle line:84%
viscid with the polleny mourn,
and how these eyes are locked."

00:01:57.400 --> 00:01:59.860 align:middle line:84%
Yes, it's the windows
of the soul, we fuck.

00:01:59.860 --> 00:02:00.930 align:middle line:90%
Felt like it.

00:02:00.930 --> 00:02:04.280 align:middle line:90%
[LAUGHTER]