WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.240 align:middle line:90% 00:00:03.240 --> 00:00:05.180 align:middle line:90% You know what gerbils are? 00:00:05.180 --> 00:00:07.900 align:middle line:84% Little animals, Creative Play I think sells them. 00:00:07.900 --> 00:00:18.090 align:middle line:90% 00:00:18.090 --> 00:00:21.340 align:middle line:84% "The gerbils keep having babies and eating them, 00:00:21.340 --> 00:00:26.020 align:middle line:84% so that you find dreadful hunks on the bottom of the cage. 00:00:26.020 --> 00:00:28.960 align:middle line:84% Last night when the humans were making love, 00:00:28.960 --> 00:00:32.259 align:middle line:84% the male and female were both on their treadmill racing 00:00:32.259 --> 00:00:35.710 align:middle line:84% wildly into the darkness, faster than you and I could even 00:00:35.710 --> 00:00:39.760 align:middle line:84% think of, but this morning there are more babies and pieces 00:00:39.760 --> 00:00:41.980 align:middle line:90% of babies. 00:00:41.980 --> 00:00:44.110 align:middle line:84% The children of animals that small 00:00:44.110 --> 00:00:47.350 align:middle line:84% look like tiny complete men, before the mother 00:00:47.350 --> 00:00:49.300 align:middle line:90% tears into them. 00:00:49.300 --> 00:00:52.390 align:middle line:84% Why she does it, is because we're there watching. 00:00:52.390 --> 00:00:54.130 align:middle line:84% And it hurts how we look at things, 00:00:54.130 --> 00:00:55.640 align:middle line:90% and she feels it from us. 00:00:55.640 --> 00:00:57.910 align:middle line:84% The pain, that we are in such fear 00:00:57.910 --> 00:01:00.310 align:middle line:84% that we can't live except in the darkness, 00:01:00.310 --> 00:01:02.110 align:middle line:90% groaning and thrashing. 00:01:02.110 --> 00:01:05.019 align:middle line:84% The terrified animals inside us, that 00:01:05.019 --> 00:01:11.140 align:middle line:84% are like men too fleeing into the eternal undergrowth. 00:01:11.140 --> 00:01:14.080 align:middle line:90% Human beings have children. 00:01:14.080 --> 00:01:17.560 align:middle line:84% Pat them, teach them to talk, to protect themselves, 00:01:17.560 --> 00:01:24.200 align:middle line:84% to have more, more, but we still die when we look at each other. 00:01:24.200 --> 00:01:29.260 align:middle line:84% This is the wheel, the gods, the whiteness, the clear air. 00:01:29.260 --> 00:01:32.980 align:middle line:84% This is the gnawing in cages, trying to take the life back. 00:01:32.980 --> 00:01:36.280 align:middle line:84% The violent wanting to throw up and refusing to. 00:01:36.280 --> 00:01:43.710 align:middle line:84% The wheel and the seed, the heart shattering." 00:01:43.710 --> 00:01:45.000 align:middle line:90%